Author: Rachel Mendoza

Join us this month at Buyer’s Club, where we are thrilled to welcome Henry Washington, a distinguished real estate investor, author, and educator. Henry is not just a co-host of the Bigger Pockets “On the Market” podcast but also a visionary in the real estate world. Henry’s story is one of determination and ingenuity, starting from modest beginnings to building a substantial property portfolio.

Key Takeaways:
In his talk, “Mastering the Art of Finding and Funding Great Deals,” Henry will share:

• Strategies for identifying undervalued properties and turning them into lucrative investments.
• Innovative financing methods, including leveraging local banks and other less traditional sources of funding.
• Real-world insights from his experience in growing a rental portfolio to over 70 properties, encompassing both single and multi-family units.
• The importance of mindset, networking, and positioning oneself for success in the competitive real estate market.

About Henry Washington:
Henry Washington is a figure of inspiration in the real estate community. His path to success involved overcoming initial financial challenges, leveraging his network, and employing creative strategies to finance deals. He has transformed run-down properties into affordable housing solutions, positively impacting communities. With a focus on both financial independence and generational wealth, Henry’s approach is both practical and empowering.

Why Attend:
This is a not-to-miss opportunity for anyone interested in real estate investing, from beginners to seasoned investors. Henry’s practical advice, grounded in his own successful experiences, provides valuable insights into navigating the real estate market, finding great deals, and securing funding.

We look forward to seeing you at the club for an evening of learning, networking, and growth. Don’t miss this chance to gain valuable insights from one of the leading minds in real estate investing!

P.S. Check out our new Facebook group to stay connected between meetings: https://www.facebook.com/groups/buyersclubstl

Suzanne Luther, the loan manager and one of the underwriters of FasterFunds Lending, has walked close to 900 properties and has lent on over 1,000 properties in the last 8 years. During that time, she has gotten the opportunity to see people go from 1 rental to building a rental portfolio of 25, 60, and 100+ properties. She has also seen rehabbers start flipping houses on the side to earning enough income where they’re able to quit their day job and go all in to real estate.

The focus of each loan she does is seeing people win (and preferably win over and over again)!

In September, the focus is on sharing the traits that people have who win and encourage people to get off the sidelines and start putting in the work as well as get people who are active in real estate investing that are considering to take their business to the next level to jump in!

Along with hearing from Suzanne, there will also be a couple people sharing a recent story of a deal they’ve done and show how they’re actively winning in real estate.

Investing in real estate is a powerful tool if you know how to use it. Come learn from people actively investing how they win so you can win too!

RSVP Here

[ Where]

Waterbury Meeting Center

830 Waterbury Falls Dr.

O’Fallon, MO 63368

[ When ]

Thursday, September 21st, at 6 pm

Networking and Food – 6 to 6:30 pm

Discussion / Speaker – 6:30 to 8:30 pm

After Hours Social – join us right after the meeting for networking – there will be a cash (or credit card) bar

[ RSVP / Cost ]

Step 1: RSVP Here

Step 2: If you are a “First Time” visitor – you are finished, see you there!

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and Pay for just this meeting – https://buyers-club.com/one-meeting

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and pay for an Annual Membership to save $150 –https://buyers-club.com/annual-membership

There are few people in the Saint Louis area who have been hands on rehabbing more houses than Nick Thiele over the past seven years. This experience has appropriately given him the title, The Rehabber.
With this boots on the ground knowledge there is no one that could better teach you the ins and outs of the rehabbing process. This includes:

• Finding and hiring the right contractors
• Understanding when to pull permits and when you don’t need to
• How to deal with city inspectors
• Payment expectations from quality contractors
• Determining when to spend the money to upgrade something and when it doesn’t pay to

Nick will go over one of his recent flips, showing before and after photos and just talking through the construction process in detail.

If you have struggled with the construction process or just want to up your game even more make sure to get to the club this month. Nick has a passion for helping people as well as the knowledge to really know what he is talking about. He wants to give as much as he can to help you make your next flip move smoothly as well as be more profitable.

RSVP Here

[ Where]

Waterbury Meeting Center

830 Waterbury Falls Dr.

O’Fallon, MO 63368

[ When ]

Thursday, October 19th, at 6 pm

Networking and Food – 6 to 6:30 pm

Discussion / Speaker – 6:30 to 8:30 pm

After Hours Social – join us right after the meeting for networking – there will be a cash (or credit card) bar

[ RSVP / Cost ]

Step 1: RSVP Here

Step 2: If you are a “First Time” visitor – you are finished, see you there!

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and Pay for just this meeting – https://buyers-club.com/one-meeting

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and pay for an Annual Membership to save $150 –https://buyers-club.com/annual-membership

Are you wondering how to uncover those incredible deals in todays real estate market? It’s a question on many minds, and we’ve got the answers you’re looking for.

Come on out to Buyer’s Club in November featuring a panel of experts including three exceptional individuals who are currently dominating the market, acquiring houses at unbelievable discounts. They are so successful and transparent that they’re eager to share their wealth of knowledge with you.

🌟 Here’s what we’ll cover:

• 📈 The latest and most effective marketing methods
• 💰 Strategies for optimizing your marketing budget to secure your next property
• 🤝 How to build relationships with connectors who bring you deals month after month
• 💼 Expert tips on negotiating with motivated sellers
• 🌨️ Preparing for winter with smart strategies, as it’s traditionally a slower season

Real estate investing is incredibly rewarding, but the first step is always finding that awesome deal. This is the meeting you don’t want to miss if you’re looking to fill your pipeline with promising opportunities.

There are three main reasons you aren’t living your best life! If you are waking up each day and not excited about the life you have created, then listen up!:

1. You’re so caught up in the dramas of your current life, that you don’t even know what your best life could look like. You’ve’ stopped dreaming. 👎🏻
2. You don’t believe you can have the life full of wealth, success, love, health, and impact, so why bother? 🤷🏻‍♂️
3. You’ve either never actually take action, or you’ve quit too soon because you’re not committed to do more. 🛑

Clarity. 🔥 Certainty. 🔥 Commitment. 🔥 are three qualities that separate the successful from the unsuccessful.

What separates those who are living a life of freedom from those living lives of stress and struggle are inside of them, not in the world.

People like to refer to this as mindset. 🧠 Mike likes to call it your personal power! 💪

Whatever you call it, when you change what’s happening inside of you, everything in your life will change.

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

Mike is out to help more people step into their personal power and create lives of wealth, success, and freedom. Over the past 7 years, his life has transformed. It has went from pain to purpose. From dread to fulfillment. From employee to employer. Not only that, but he has helped countless people make a radical transformation as well.

If your quality of life is not doubling every 3 years, then you’re not dreaming big enough and you’re not experiencing the very best of yourself in the world.

How do I get a BRRRR deal to cash flow in today’s environment? That question comes up a lot lately, so this month we are going to have a panel of experts that are doing exactly that. They are continuing to build their rental portfolios while doing BRRRR deals in 2023.

With values of houses rising so quickly over the past several years, coupled with interest rates rising at the fastest pace in history, their strategy has shifted to the “mid-term” rental.

What’s a mid-term rental, you ask? Typically it’s a rental agreement between a property owner and a tenant that lasts for more than a month but less than a year.

What kind of tenants need that type of rental? Most often it’s traveling nurses.

Whether the traveling nurse trend was fueled by covid or was about to happen anyway, there are now tons of traveling nurses! They’re in need of nice places to stay, in a safe area, close to hospitals.

Landlords to the rescue! When there is a need for housing, landlords figure out how to fill the need.

Traveling nurses aren’t the only group looking for mid-term rentals. Insurance companies, college professors, digital nomads, and other business professionals have a similar need. All these people are willing to pay above average rents to be able to stay in a nice furnished house for several months and then move on.

Come out to the club on July 20th and learn from our experts Keola Boak, Kevin Hubbs, and Betty Dobson, how they are crushing it in the mid-term rental space!

Jennifer Donley has gone from a place of anxiety to a place of nearly complete time and financial freedom in a period of just over 5 years.

This almost seems impossible. How could someone go from one extreme to the other in such a short amount of time?

She started with a Vision to create a life that was peaceful, as well as full of free time and financial freedom. From there she needed a tool. The tool that showed up for Jennifer was Real Estate Investing.

She tried doing some wholesaling and rehabbing but these were not bringing her the peace and freedom she wanted so she shifted to long term rentals and then specifically to single family rentals with Section 8 tenants.

Now rentals and Section 8 tenants may not sound like peace and freedom to most people, but Jennifer found the perfect mixture of the right houses that cash flow well. With the right processes and the right people to help manage them for her, she was able to create an income stream large enough to live on. Her only remaining job is oversight.

Jennifer now owns 39 rental houses mostly with Section 8 tenants. These rentals throw off enough income to allow her to spend her days at cheer competitions with her kids, or hiking nearby trails with her husband, or whatever she feels like doing that day.

If peace and freedom are a part of your Vision, be sure to come out to the club on June 15th and hear about Jennifer’s journey and see what kind of inspiration it kindles in you.

RSVP Here

[ Where]

Waterbury Meeting Center

830 Waterbury Falls Dr.

O’Fallon, MO 63368

[ When ]

Thursday, June 15th, at 6 pm

Networking and Food – 6 to 6:30 pm

Discussion / Speaker – 6:30 to 8:30 pm

After Hours Social – join us right after the meeting for networking – there will be a cash (or credit card) bar

[ RSVP / Cost ]

Step 1: RSVP Here

Step 2: If you are a “First Time” visitor – you are finished, see you there!

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and Pay for just this meeting – https://buyers-club.com/one-meeting

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and pay for an Annual Membership to save $150 –https://buyers-club.com/annual-membership

Looking for expert insights on the real estate market?

Look no further than our upcoming presentation featuring Matthew Becker, a real estate broker with over a decade of experience in the St. Louis Market.

Join us as we explore the latest trends in the market, from shifting buyer preferences to climbing interest rates. Gain valuable insights into the top issues facing the industry, from regulatory challenges to changing demographics. And discover what the future holds with our comprehensive economic forecast for the rest of 2023.

Whether you’re a seasoned investor or a first-time homebuyer, this presentation is not to be missed!

RSVP Here

[ Where]

Waterbury Meeting Center

830 Waterbury Falls Dr.

O’Fallon, MO 63368

[ When ]

Thursday, May 18th, at 6 pm

Networking and Food – 6 to 6:30 pm

Discussion / Speaker – 6:30 to 8:30 pm

After Hours Social – join us right after the meeting for networking – there will be a cash (or credit card) bar sponsored by Nick’s All Around Improvements

[ RSVP / Cost ]

Step 1: RSVP Here

Step 2: If you are a “First Time” visitor – you are finished, see you there!

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and Pay for just this meeting – https://buyers-club.com/one-meeting

If you would like to confirm your RSVP and pay for an Annual Membership to save $150 –https://buyers-club.com/annual-membership

Thank you to Nick’s All Around Improvements for being our bar sponsor this month.

This month’s presenting sponsor is Angle Ridge Remodeling. If you need any exterior remodeling done to your house then reach out to Shaun and Sandy Wright at 636-462-4608! They can do everything from roofing, siding, windows, and more.

Sam Primm and Lucas Walls have been able to buy over $40 Million in real estate without using any of their own money. It felt crazy even writing that sentence!

They have been able to start a side hustle of real estate investing and turn that into financial freedom and multiple successful businesses.

Along their crazy journey they have figured out a lot of shortcuts and screwed up more times than they can count.

Through all that they have over 260 rental doors, flipped/ wholesaled close to 1000 houses and have one of the top real estate investing education companies around…

That is pretty cool, but what is even cooler is their presentation is not about them. Their presentation is about YOU and how you can learn from their journey to help you achieve your goals.

Whether you want to buy your first rental property this year or are looking to scale a massive real estate investing company you do NOT want to miss this months presentation.

They are going to give you the foundational concepts to start on your own real estate journey and give you some key markers to look for to ensure you will be able to achieve your goals, no matter how big or small.

Corporate World to Real Estate Investor: How a Husband and Wife Overcame their Fear

Matt, a former sales director, and Kate, a former news anchor, will be sharing their journey of facing their fears of leaving the corporate world and following their real estate investing dreams. During the pandemic they decided it may not be the best time to start a new career but they went for it anyway. Just a few years later they are so glad they did.

In just a couple years they have created 6 different income streams from real estate investing. They include:

• Wholesaling
• Rehabbing houses and selling them retail
• Starting their portfolio of rentals
• Doing some private lending to other rehabbers
• Traditional Real Estate
• Remodel and Design Consulting

Matt and Kate will be sharing specifics on how they were able to make this shift including case studies with before and after photos from a couple of their flips as well as a couple rentals.

RESOURCES:

Private Lender Credibility Packet

Property Appraisal Packet

Flip Profit Calculator

Cash Flow Analyzer

Project/ Design Consulting