Regina P. Brown, e-Pro Realtor®

Scott Whaley, our host of the real estate investment seminar, Real Wealth Investor Expo, shared some excellent training. Starting with his Speed Learning tip:

Take action as quickly as possible, then get intense feedback immediately. This is SPEED Learning using the ultimate feedback model. When you get immediate feedback, your brain learns quicker. Kind of like touching a hot stove!

• We have 20,000 thoughts per day, and most of them are the same thoughts as the previous day.
• We have a pattern of focus, thinking, and behavior.
• Success is a habit and so is failure.
• We must use leverage to break a pattern & to install a new one.

Emotional mastery is putting yourself into active in the areas in which you're challenged. "Most of our society majors in minor things," Scott reflected.

ACTION is the practiced skill of making quick, strong decisions. Massive action will pay off. Action is perfected through conditioning, repetition, intensity, and speed.

Our vision must be compelling enough to push us over obstacles. The book "Who Moved My Cheese?" shows that most people are crawling through a maze, following the wrong map, and don't even want the cheese they're pursuing!

But what do we want? Goals must be measurable, specific, and achievable. For a personal assessment to help get what you want, Scott is offering a behavior assessment on September 12th, & 13th, see his web site http://www.realwealthinvestor.com/ for more info.

See the overview of this entire awesome seminar series at: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1090853/real-estate-investing-seminars-for-all-serious-real-estate-professionals

Regina P. Brown
Broker, Realtor®, e-Pro
Author of eBook "Stop Foreclosure Fast: Solutions to Save your House"
Author of forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work & Profit from Home"
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Text copyright © 2009 R.P. Brown, All Rights Reserved

Recently I was blessed to attend a real estate investment seminar, Real Wealth Investor Expo with Scott Whaley. I highly recommend that ALL serious real estate agents attend investment seminars to educate yourselves. You (hopefully) have clients who are real estate investors, and you should learn their techniques and tools of the trade. So you know what they're talking about and can relate to them. And serve them better by knowing how their industry works.

Scott Whaley at http://www.realwealthinvestor.com/ hosts an annual expo and brings in the best of the BEST speakers:

• Robyn Thompson, "Queen of Property Rehab"
• Bruce Norris, highly respected real estate investor and trainer
• Alan Cowgill, top advisor on private funding
• Kaaren Hall, Entrust, experts on self-directed IRAs
• Jeff Adams, REO wholesaler on auto-pilot
• Kurt DeMeire, County Records Research with foreclosure lists updated daily
• Bob Diamond, leader in his field of Loan Mods (done the right way)
• Reed Blake, a funding pipeline
• Lee Phillips, asset protection expert
• Dr. Albert Lowry, a world-renowned wealth mentor
• Bill Gatten, trusts and land contracts

Many of these experts have shared the stage with Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki. They are highly-sought-after as TOP experts and trainers in their field; and I feel honored to be able to learn from each of them.

Robyn taught non-stop for nearly 8 hours and I learned so much about buying fixer-upper properties and the types of cosmetic work to be done. Also how to hire a good contractor.

Kaaren opened my eyes to the idea of a self-directed IRAs and its benefits. So many financial tricks of the trade that I didn't know...

And Kurt DeMeire showed exactly how to find foreclosures, in various stages (NOD, NOTS, Auction, REO), with fresh data delivery every day. An even better system than our MLS.

BTW, if you think that get-rich-quick schemes are full of bologna, then I agree with you. And these courses definitely do not offer anything shady or lead you to believe that you can get rich overnight.

As we know, anything successful happens over a period of time, through hard work, education & training, and persistent action.

P.S. Check back later as I'm going to provide links to the speakers above!

Regina P. Brown
Broker, Realtor®, e-Pro
Author of eBook "Stop Foreclosure Fast: Solutions to Save your House"
Author of forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work & Profit from Home"
Join & post to my NEW ActiveRain group at http://activerain.com/groups/virtualoffice

Text copyright © 2009 R.P. Brown, All Rights Reserved

So you passed your real estate test. Put your "shingle" out. And you're in business, right? But there's much more to being a real estate professional than just getting a license and printing business cards. If you've been an employee previously, then you will realize that being an entrepreneur involves a shift in mentality.

The first critical skill to being a business owner is thinking like a business owner. You will need to view yourself as a business owner, and to constantly promote your services. You must invest in yourself and your business for the long term, working to build a strong foundation. You will have to make many sacrifices for the good of your business.

A real estate professional is a self-employed person: a small business owner. As such, each real estate professional needs to shift her viewpoint from an "employee" mindset to a "business owner" mindset. What is the difference? Below is a chart listing possibile mindsets of each.

MINDSET

This is a great chart to study BEFORE thinking about becoming a business owners and to prepare yourself mentally.

All info is from my forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work and Prosper from Home or Mobile Office"

Anyone care to add anything? I'd love to hear what you have to say.

Regina P. Brown
Broker, Realtor®, e-Pro
Author of eBook "Stop Foreclosure Fast: Solutions to Save your House"
Author of forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work & Profit from Home"
Join & post to my NEW ActiveRain group at http://activerain.com/groups/virtualoffice

Text copyright © 2009 R.P. Brown, All Rights Reserved

If you are not yet a homeowner, now's the time to make that MOVE! You already know about the $8,000 tax credit for buying your first home before November. But did you know that you don't have to worry about losing your job or becoming disabled? That's right, your friendly, professional California REALTOR® can help you apply for a mortgage "insurance" that will pay your mortgage in these cases.

Our newest REALTOR® benefit, the Mortgage Protection Program, provides a combination of involuntary unemployment, accidental disability, and accidental death protection for qualified first-time home buyers.

To summarize, when the buyer is represented by a REALTOR® who submits the appropriate application, the program offers to pay $1500 of a primary borrower's and $750 of a secondary borrower's mortgage should either lose their job, die accidentally, or become disabled.

There is no cost to the buyer or to the REALTOR®. There is no cap on sales price or income level restrictions. The program is being funded by Realtor donations to the C.A.R. Housing Affordability Fund.

If you are a first time buyer who entered into escrow on or after April 2, 2009, I urge you to apply today. The program ends when all funds have been spent or at the end of this year. If you need more information, an FAQ sheet or an application form, go to http://www.car.org/aboutus/hafmainpage/ or talk to your favorite REALTOR®, or email me rpbrown @ realtor.com and I will be happy to help you.

HOME BUYERS: What are you waiting for? Make your move NOW & also get the $8,000 first-time home buyer federal tax rebate!! It doesn't get any sweeter than this.

Don't worry. Be happy. ;)

This program is being offered by the California Association of REALTORS® Housing Affordability Fund ("CARHAF"), to help build confidence in the purchase of a home and to reduce the fear of foreclosure in the event of a job loss or accidental death or disability. CARHAF has committed $1 million to provide this program to qualified home buyers. This blog info is provided by Chris Bausch from Independent Real Estate Broker in Paso Robles, CA -- thanks, Chris!

P.S. If you are a California Assn. of Realtors member, please consider making a donation to the CARHAF to continue funding this great program for home buyers: http://www.car.org/media/doc/105360/ and find more info at http://www.car.org/3550/100782/204893/Donor_Benefits.pdf . THANK YOU!

Regina P. Brown
Broker, Realtor®, e-Pro
Author of eBook "Stop Foreclosure Fast: Solutions to Save your House"
Author of forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work & Profit from Home"
Join my NEW group for professionals who work from their home office at http://activerain.com/groups/virtualoffice

Text copyright © 2009 R.P. Brown, All Rights Reserved

I haven't gotten there YET, but I've been observing. And thinking. And planning. And here's what I noticed: Those ultra-successful business people (those sitting atop their Empires) have a simple design. Yes, it's all by DESIGN, not random.

First, they have TASKS. Tried-and-true tasks that work. Things they KNOW are effective. Actions that have been honed over time. These tasks, taken individually, are simple, but are still documented with easy-to-reference procedures.

Then these tasks are assembled into smooth-running SYSTEMS. Systems that can run on auto-pilot. A series of tasks and procedures. Tested over time and revised to get it just right. And continually being improved. What is a system? A system is a series of steps, procedures, or tasks that is tested for best results, and is set up to occur routinely on a recurring basis.

Then a series of systems is strung together to create a MACHINE. As with anything you automate, 80% will work on auto-pilot and you'll have to plan for manual direction on about 20% of it. A machine is large, powerful, has momentum -- and is not easily stopped!

When several machines are producing systematic results on a consistent basis, you have an EMPIRE. Like Donald Trump. Or Bill Gates. Or Oprah Winfrey.

How to get there:

• Find a system that works -- keep trying until you (almost) perfect it
• Do it better than everyone else
• Repeat it consistently
• Set up a SERIES of systems
• Follow the series of systems persistently
• Keep fine-tuning to improve (it'll never be perfect)
• Know when to start a new system
• Know when to scrap a system that's not bigger producing results than its cost

So who wants to be the next Donald Trump?

Regina P. Brown
Broker, Realtor®, e-Pro
Author of eBook "Stop Foreclosure Fast: Solutions to Save your House"
Author of forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work & Profit from Home"
Join my NEW group for professionals who work from their home office at http://activerain.com/groups/virtualoffice

Text copyright © 2009 R.P. Brown, All Rights Reserved