Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year by students paying Gurus around the Country for books, tapes, and mentorships that NEVER result in an actual real estate deal. Students see the GURUs fancy marketing websites showing them in gigantic houses, boats, and cars and believe they must know what they are doing. 

We hear the same story over and over again. Students spend $2500, $5000, and even, $10,000 on a training system but NEVER end up closing a deal from it. The are SOLD the “dream” of NO MONEY DOWN deals and DOUBLE CLOSINGS only to find out later that those kind of deals RARELY EVER CLOSE. 

With over 40 years of combined real estate experience, Jason Roberts and Scott Surgener decided it was time for a change. Jason and Scott have successfully built a national network of both Realtors and Investors who partner with their companies and utilize their brands and marketing platforms to build their own businesses around the country. 

Jason and Scott have now launched a NEW Partner Program offering a “hands on, in the field” approach to teaching beginning investors the realities and techniques they will need to become full-time investors. Each investor spends up to 3 days in Florida learning all aspects of finding, evaluating, rehabbing, and reselling investment deals. The three sectors that are taught include real estate wholesaling, rehabbing and flipping for profit, and finally the art of cash flowing for monthly income. The investor has access to the company’s entire marketing system to find their first deal in their local market. They are offered direct support thru the entire process which typically lasts from 60-90 days.

Jason Roberts, CEO of the corporation says, “We are excited to offer one of the first real estate investment programs in the country that brings a new investor to a markets where we buy and sell houses every single month to learn hands on how real investing works. Real estate is done in the field, not a ballroom.”

Scott Surgener, Senior VP says, “We get tired of hearing all of the war stories that come from people who spend thousands of dollars on books and tapes but never have the confidence to do an actual transaction. We created this program to ensure that our students have the knowledge and confidence to buy a house as well as the marketing system to get it sold. “

The program creates a partnership arrangment where much of their fee is paid after the investors sells their first real estate deal. “We do that to put our money where are mouth is so to speak.”, says Mr. Roberts.

Details of the program can be found by visiting their website.

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Changes to HAFA:

- Short sale answers must come within 30 days
- Servicers are no longer required to verify a borrower’s financial information
- Servicers are no longer required to determine if the debt-to-income exceeds 31%
- Second lien holders no longer must accept 6% of the unpaid balance.

The goal of these changes is to expedite short sales, which is good news for home owners, realtors, investors and ultimately the banks.

As always, www.sellmyhouse.com will stay on top of the results for our Realtor and investor networks.

The www.SellMyhouse.com Team

January already shapping up to be one of our best months in 3 years. Seem to be getting more access to great investment deals directly from banks and GSEs. Turn key resale system working in destination/retirement markets with cash retirement buyers. Many houses need less than $5000 rehab. 

December Results: 

• Investors annualized return rate of 102%
• Average single family purchase price $94,000.
• Average sale price $115,000.
• Average hold time 31 days. 

Jason K Roberts
President
www.AmericasBestRehabs.com
www.SellMyHouse.com 

Todd Snipes, President

www.TheDealMagnet.com

Jason, Scott, and Todd want to hear from you as to your thoughts, goals, and strategies for 2011. Here’s our weekly update on all things relavent to real estate.

Home values lose $1.7 trillion in 2010 – CNNMoney has a story today about the dollar loss in real estate value for 2010. As just about everyone in real estate knows, the homebuyer tax credit propped up the first half of 2010, but really just served to pull most people who would have purchased later in the year, into the first half. Distressed home sellers continue to make up a huge portion of the real estate market – do you have a plan to resolve this problem or to target these properties for purchase?  Need to stop foreclosure? 

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Strategic Planning - Speaking of planning, it’s easy to get caught up in the day to day, but as the year ends, have you reviewed (or started!) your strategic plan? I’ve found that creating a strategic plan for the year and then reviewing it monthly and weekly has had a huge positive impact on our business, especially during turbulent times. One of the simplest, easy to use tools for this is Verne Harnish’s One Page Strategic Plan.

2011 Outlook – Next year will continue to be turbulent for real estate. From the thousands of “motivated” home sellers contacting us each month, we continue to see a very high number of foreclosures on the horizon. Because most sellers contact us before they are behind in their payments or in foreclosure, it gives us a 6-8 month outlook on the national housing market. Companies that figure out how to work with current real estate market conditions should thrive next year! Those that “hunker down” waiting for the market to “come back” may be gone in 12 months. What is your strategy?

The www.SellMyHouse.com Team

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 www.SellMyHouse.com will be getting a face lift. The updated site will go live in March.

www.AmericasBestRehabs.com will go live in March. It is has been in Beta testing.

www.BuilderLeasePurchase.com is being redesigned and will launch in March along with the  marketing campaign to expand in markets where we currently have a Realtor Partner. The new site will expand from builders to rehab investors and single family sellers.

http://www.sellmyhouse.com/community/   Our blog will be getting a facelift. Feel free to register and begin commenting on news and events with your specific contact info, market conditions, etc. An integrated news feature will eventually be buillt into the www.sellmyhouse.com template.

 Realtor Questions Answered:

“What is the difference between a Realtor Partner and a basic Realtor Affiliate?”

An Affiliate is a Realtor who just gets leads from SMH but does not actively market the company via sign riders or participate in the company’s expanded marketing programs such as our fsbo business, lease sites, investor networks, or other marketing systems. The Affiliate program will be phased out over the next few years.Under the Realtor Partner Program we end up building our entire business around the Realtor. They have direct access to all of our brands, partnerships, and services. In 2010, we have begun the process of hiring marketing reps in Realtor Partner markets to expand lead volume in all facets of our business.

 “Do you offer personal websites for your Realtors?”

It’s in the planning stage. In the future we plan to offer a these customized sites that will have built in blogs, news, etc fed from sellmyhouse.com with the goal of improving the SEO rankings in each market while creating a marketing platform for each of our Realtors.

 “What is the average lead volume you generate for your Realtors?”There are many factors to consider including size of the market, market conditions, etc. However, the primary factor in our lead volume stats comes down to marketing efforts. We are a referral based company so it makes sense that we would concentrate our marketing dollars in markets where our Realtors are also actively marketing the brand as well. The best way to explain it is simply in our Realtor Partner markets where they add our sign riders to our listings or participate in our FSBO marketing program, our corporate offices allocate marketing resources to expand lead volume in these markets. The www.SellMyHouse.com Realtor Affiliate Program is primarily a by-product of our national internet presence. Lead volume expands dramatically in Partner markets where we do direct marketing campaigns. 

The SellMyHouse.com Team

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