Using Virtual Assistants to Grow Your Real Estate Business with Bob Lachance  | EP75

Bob Lachance is a Real Estate Investor, a Nationally Recognised Speaker, Mentor and Trainer who Specialises in Helping Customers Build their Businesses through Automation and Outsourcing. Bob currently Owns Four Businesses and Helped Start One of the Nation’s Largest Real Estate Coaching Programs.

In this episode we talked about:

Bob’s Bio & Background
“Who Not How” mentality
Bob’s journey from pro hockey player to entrepreneur
Why outsourcing is so important in real estate
How to Find and Hire the Right Virtual Assistant
How to integrate VAs in your business
E-mail Management, Cold Calling, Admin Management
Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned

Useful links:
https://revaglobal.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boblachance/
https://www.facebook.com/REVAcareers

Transcriptions:

Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper galley. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. All right, ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica galley and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. I have Bob on the program today. He's a real estate investor.

 

He's a nationally recognized speaker, mentor trainer, and everything related to real estate. He helps out with, and I believe Bob correct me if I'm wrong. You are a ex pro hockey player.

 

Bob (44s): I am, I played eight years and four years here. Four years in Europe,

 

Jesse (48s): Right on, well in recognition of a Leaf's a home opener here. Yeah. Great to have you on how you doing?

 

Bob (54s): Very good. Very good. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

 

Jesse (57s): Awesome. So, Bob, typically what we do, we have a new guests on the show. We do a little bit of a background on the guests. Maybe you could give listeners a little bit of your history as it relates to your career and, and real estate.

 

Bob (1m 11s): Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. W what's fast forward today. I'll back into it. I run a successful virtual assistant company out of the Philippines have been doing since 2014 and also have a, a real estate company. We should be at about a hundred and probably 40 to 50 transactions this year. So we're on, we're on a pretty good trajectory there, but how I got started to get back to that, I went to Boston university on a four year scholarship for a ice hockey league, which has talked about, and then I was fortunate enough to be offered a two year contract by St.

 

Louis blues. So I left two classes short of getting my degree with the thought process of, you know, you can always go back, but being obviously you've been from Toronto and understanding the h