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"Who Else Wants to Uncover a
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"Getting Started in Real Estate Investing is Your Passport To
The Most Exciting Personal Investment Program Possible. By Applying These
Principles with Prudence and Diligence, You Can Open Up to Yourself the World of
"Pure Gold," the Exciting World of American Real Estate!"
Let me share with you a whole new way of thinking about
money and a proven method of acquiring wealth. In the process, I
will put to rest (I hope forever!) an astonishing number of myths and
misconceptions about what it takes to make and keep --great wealth.
Most of what we know about money is based upon false
assumptions. As Josh Billings so aptly put it: "The Trouble with
people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that just ain't
so."
How do people get to know so much misinformation about wealth?
They are programmed. Of course, there is really nothing sinister about it. There
is no conspiracy afoot to brainwash unsuspecting Americans into thinking
"poorly." Actually, much of it is nothing more than the common sense of past
generations taken to extremes. These widely held sacred-cow notions about
saving, spending, borrowing, and investing are taught by well-intentioned
teachers in our finest universities, in our newspapers, on television, from our
pulpits, and in our homes. We take them for granted just as people used to
assume the world was flat of that the sun revolved around the earth.
As a consequence, only a small percentage of the millions who
try ever join the ranks of the wealthy. How can they? They are building on a
shaky foundation.
I'll never forget a radio interview I did in Pittsburgh. The host and I spent
some time talking about the road to wealth. The host's assistant, a young woman,
listened intently. After the interview she questioned me. "Mr. Allen, all of
what you say sounds interesting, even feasible. But it goes against every thing
my parents have always taught me!"
I asked, "How are your parents doing financially?" She replied, "Terribly.
They are really strapped for money." Then she laughed at what she had just said.
She understood.
Granted, it isn't easy to let go of our programming. There are lessons we
feel we have learned from the Great Depression of the '30s, the Great Recession
of the '70s, or the Great Stagnation of the '80s. But we don't have to be like
the monkeys in a story I heard recently. It seems that in Africa, the natives
use an ingenious method for catching monkeys. They hollow out a coconut shell by
cutting a small hole at one end. The hole is small enough to barely allow a
monkey's hand. Inside the hollowed shell they place a few peanuts. They connect
the coconut shell to a thin, strong cord and wait in hiding for the monkeys.
When a monkey discovers the nuts inside the shell he reaches in and grasps them
in his fist. But the hole is too small to allow the tightly clenched fist to
escape. At this precise moment the native pulls on the cord...and the monkey,
who won't let go of those peanuts to save his life, is caught.
Too often, we hold tightly to our own peanut ideas for fear that we may lose
them... when all the while, it is these very ideas that hold us captive and
prevent the freedom we long for.
Well, what are these false assumptions? And how can we learn to let go of
them? Let's examine the nine most prevalent faulty assumptions about wealth. As
you study them, notice how each one of them contains a grain truth.
False Assumption #1: Having a Job is Good and Leads Ultimately to
Wealth.
I asked a young telephone receptionist in Columbus, Ohio, to
tell me her idea of the most important factor in wealth acquisition. She
replied, "A good job, a great job, a fantastic job." I was surprised by how
often this same answer was given by those whose income is average and below.
Millionaires rarely respond this way.
It is commonly held in our society that finding a good job,
working hard, and moving up the ladder to more responsibility will eventually
take us to golden retirement years of wealth and happiness. The fact of the
matter is that a job merely supports the habits we have (like eating)...but it
rarely leads to wealth. As one shrewd observer put it, "Wealth is when small
efforts produce large results. Poverty is when large efforts produce small
results."
No matter how much you love your job, expecting it to make you
wealthy is like looking for gold in a salt mine. If your large efforts are only
producing small results you had better check the roadmap. You may be on the road
to poverty."
The answer is not to work harder, but to work smarter. A job
should be looked upon as a temporary inconvenience. It is a method for
generating cash flow for living expenses while you are setting up a
"money-system". Thus, having a job is necessary for a while, but don't forget
the other part of the equation. Your ultimate goal is to acquire ownership of a
generous source of income which flows to you regardless of your job.
False Assumption #2: Saving Your Money Is a Good
Investment.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by
investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
But don't get me wrong. Saving money is good. In fact, it is
important to the wealth-building process. It's not the money saved that is
important. It is the discipline required to save it. But you can't expect your
savings to carry you to wealth. And this is the fact that is so widely
misunderstood. Even the seemingly exciting high interest rates paid by the
popular money market funds are not enough. Assuming only minimal inflation and
taxes, it doesn't take a Ph.D. in finance to realize that any dollar that earns
less than about 15% per year is a losing venture. At best it is the slow
liquidation of wealth.
"But," you say, "savings accounts and certificates of deposit
are safe and the money comes easy." And I reply, "Does it make you feel safe and
secure to know that every day you are getting poorer and poorer?"
One of my grandfather's favorite sayings was: "Early to
bed/Early to rise/Work like hell/And economize!"
There is nothing wrong with economizing. There is a place for it
in the scheme of wealth. However, if your goal is to become wealthy you must
learn how to save smart. The money you save is only parked temporarily in
liquid, interest-bearing accounts waiting for a better place to invest. This
smart money is then shifted into long-range, less-liquid investments which
generate wealth-producing-rates of return -rates well in excess of 50% per year.
Anything less is tantamount to treading water in the swimming pool on the deck
of the Titanic.
False Assumption #3: Debt Is Bad - Avoiding It Like The
Plague.
Have you ever heard this before? There is truth to the
statement, but it depends on the kind of debt we are talking about. If we are
talking about consumer debt, yes. Avoid it like a plague. Avoid borrowing money
to buy the "appearances of wealth" which lose value and are often worthless
before the debt is repaid.
But investment debt is another story. In fact, self-made wealth
never comes without going into debt. I repeat: You can never become wealthy
without going into some form of investment debt. And probably a lot of it.
It is true that debt is terrifying to most of us. It signifies
bondage. And ironically, the only way we can develop a sizable nest egg and stay
out of long-term financial bondage is to go into short-term debt. You can
actually leverage/borrow your way to wealth.
There is no other way short of theft or inheritance. And that
brings us to our next false assumption, which is the reason most of us fear debt
in the first place.
False Assumption #4: Security Is Good.
Our entire society is obsessed with security. We demand social
security, job security, seniority, and federal deposit insurance. But security
is only an illusion. Le me illustrate. A few months ago a fireman friend of mine
was called out to fight a large brush fire. He and his cohorts rushed to the
closest fire hydrant, connected their water hoses, and ran to the flames. But
when they turned the water on at the hydrant, nothing happened! The water lines
had not been properly connected by the developer. All they could do was stand
there and watch the blaze, helpless.
Those who place too much faith in security often end up trying
to put out fires with empty water hoses. Would you feel financially secure if
you had to rely on an almost insolvent social security system?
How dangerous it is to assume that security is good! The more
you love security the more likely you will avoid risk. And if you avoid risk,
you also avoid opportunity, because risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
You can't hate risk and hope for freedom.
Risk is an essential part of progress. Learn to view it
positively, as an essential step in the road to wealth.
I was driving down a California freeway recently and heard a
radio advertisement for a local bank. Their slogan was: "Come in out of the
risk."
If I could rewrite this commercial, I would say: "Come out into
the risk. For that is where you find the opportunity. There is no such thing as
security. There are only varying degrees of risk."
False Assumption #5: Failure is Bad.
I used to be ashamed of my many failures and mistakes. And I
have made plenty of them! But as I became more mature I realized that failure is
part of success. A very important part. If you develop a positive mental
attitude about failure, you can learn a great deal from it. You will develop
ingenuity, flexibility, and an ability to create new ways of achieving goals.
When you fail for a time to obtain something you really want, you join the ranks
of some pretty important people. . .like Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison. Do
you know of any successful person who has risen to the top of his or her field
without some failure?
Herb True once said, "What people don't realize is that
successful people often have more failures than failures do. But they keep
going." You don't drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there.
Failure is not bad. In fact, one good failure can teach you more
about success than four years at the best university. Failure can be the best
thing that ever happened to you.
False Assumption #6: Wealth Is Measured In Material
Possessions.
Wealth is not money. Money is just the appearance of wealth. The
form but not the substance. Wealth is thoughts, not things. You can be wealthy
without having lots of money. And you can be rich and not be wealthy.
Now that may be a bit confusing, but it's true. Wealth is a
state of mind -an attitude. Hollis Norton says it well: "Broke is a temporary
condition. Poor is a state of mind."
Let's test this hypothesis out. Henry Ford was once asked what
he would do if he lost all of his possessions. He replied, "I'd have them all
back again in five years." In other words, he might be temporarily broke but he
would never be poor. He had a wealth of experience and knowledge to draw upon.
And above all, he had a positive attitude about his ability to create wealth and
knew that if he had done it once, it would probably be easier the second time.
False Assumption #7: Someone Else is Responsible for My
Financial Well-Being.
When our forefathers arrived on these shores, there was no
welfare system. Each person was responsible for his or her own financial
welfare. When the pioneers crossed the plains, there were no unemployment
benefits. They had to scratch out their own existence. When thousands of
immigrants landed here in the early 1900s, they came seeking only the
opportunity to work and to be free. Somewhere between then and now, there has
been an almost imperceptible-and, I think, destructive-shift in public thinking.
People have ceased to assume personal responsibility for their financial
well-being and assume that the government is responsible. Today, we expect
government to bail out everything from defunct major corporations to insolvent
municipalities.
But government is not the answer. The answer lies in us. We
alone are responsible for our ultimate financial welfare. The sooner we realize
this, the quicker we can start on the road to wealth.
False Assumption #8: The Acquiring of Wealth Is a
Win/Lose Game.
Since the beginning of time the acquiring of wealth has been
viewed as a win/lose game a dirty business in which the acquirer takes advantage
of the acquiree (usually in an illegal or immoral way). Many people think that
one has to be a greedy SOB to "Make It".
But I believe you don't have to be filthy to be filthy rich. I
don't have to steal from your pile in order to create a large pile for myself.
There is such a thing as creating win/win wealth.
In reality, there is an infinite source of wealth. We just have
to learn how to tap into it. When I tap into the infinite source of wealth I
don't reduce the possibility of your becoming wealthy. I probably enhance it.
We'll discuss this in great detail in later chapters.
False Assumption #9: It Takes Money to Make Money.
Several years ago, I ran a full page ad in The Wall
Street Journal and other major newspapers which destroyed this
dangerous myth. It carried the following headline:
"Send me to any city in the United States. Take away my
wallet. Give me $100 for living expenses. In 72 hours I will buy an excellent
piece of real estate using none of my own money."
This is what happened. I was challenged by the Los
Angeles Times to live up to my claim. They flew me to Los Angeles,
where I met Martin Baron, the L.A. Times reporter, and together we flew from Los
Angeles to San Francisco. When we arrived at the airport, I handed him my wallet
and he handed me five crisp twenty dollar bills.
"With a reporter by my side, $100 for living expenses, &
armed only with my knowledge; I purchased 7 properties worth $772,000, all in
57 hours." Los Angeles Times, Business Section
A few days later, the front page of the Los Angeles Times
business section carried the following headline: "Buying Home without Cash:
Boastful Investor Accepts Time Challenge-and Wins."
The long detailed article chronicled the entire nothing down
story from 6 a.m. Monday until 5:15 P.M. Wednesday. I had done it!
Yes, the strategies and techniques I described in my
best-selling book "Nothing Down" really work! But still the experts and
skeptics refused to be convinced. I then appeared on a television show in
Houston. After explaining my story, the host said with a sneer,
"Yeah, you proved you could do it. But I doubt one of our average viewers could
do it."
That comment really ruffled my feathers. I found myself saying
the following words, which stunned even me when I heard myself say them:
"Anybody can do it. Send me to any unemployment line. Let me
select someone who is broke, out of work, & discouraged. Let me teach him in
two days time the secrets of wealth. In ninety days he'll be back on his feet,
with $5,000 cash in the bank, never to set foot in an unemployment line
again..."
The host still wasn't convinced. (Skeptics never are.) But as I
left the show I began to wonder. "What if I could go to any unemployment
line..." The idea stewed for a year or so and resulted in my going to St.
Louis in June 1984. There the ex-mayor of St. Louis, a former FBI agent,
monitored my every move as I selected a young couple from the unemployment lines
of St. Louis and taught them my secrets for two full days.
"In ninety days they had bought a property, fixed it up, and
sold it again for $5,000 cash profit-all starting with nothing down. Within 12
months they had earned over $100K!"
Once again I had proved that my strategies work. I have
been challenged again and again by various people in the news media over the
past ten years to take ordinary people and make them wealthy, and always
with the same result.
I was challenged by Regis Philbin in New York City to select a
person from his studio audience. I picked a young woman, flew her to San Diego
to attend my intensive investment program, "Wealth Training". In less than
ninety days after her return to the "Big Apple", she found and purchased a nice
duplex apartment building. Even more gratifying to me than her financial
success was the look on her face as she explained to Regis Philbin how she had
done it. She radiated a sense of self confidence that was worth far more than a
million dollars. She knew she could make her dreams come true.
You may be thinking that's great that the famous Robert G. Allen
can do that, but what about normal people like me? Indulge me as I share
a few "Normal People" success stories:
"We have accumulated enough properties using Robert G.
Allen's nothing down real estate investing system to have a net worth of over
$1, 000,000."
- Karen Nelson Bell & Duncan Guertin, Nevada
"In my very first stock trade using one of the techniques I
learned, I made $6,000."
- Pat Wyman, California
In my first-ever deal I acquired a $5.7 million 91 unit
apartment building for $4.25 million using none of my own money. There is no
way I could have done this real estate deal without Robert Allen's help.
Greg Warr, New York
Since attending the Robert G. Allen nothing down real
estate investing workshop, I was able to buy two properties and sell them
immediately for a $30,000 profit!
Joseph Powe, South Carolina
I wanted to offer my testimonial and my sincere
appreciation to the great people Robert Allen has in his organization. I am
having a lot of fun and know for certain I will be financially free in the
near future.
I'm 26 year old, married, and live in Waterloo, Iowa. I
grew up on a farm and money was always hard to come by. In the mid 80s, my
parents filed bankruptcy. Times were tough for many years. However, my parents
were rich with their guidance and wisdom. There are six of us kids. My parents
have only a high school degree. In three years, all six of us kids will have
college degrees; three engineers, one doctor, one strength coach, and one
graphic designer. Three of us graduated with masters degrees, one with a
doctorate. I mention this only for the pure sake of showing the awesome
benefit of mentors and people who can instill desire and motivation as my
parents have, just like I'm experiencing now with the protégé program. They
also stressed the importance of being well balanced spiritually, physically,
mentally, and socially.
I started a year and a half ago, reading various books on real estate
(most of Robert Allen's), investments, and books like Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People. I became a protégé last August. As it stands today, I have
bought four investment properties (houses) and will close on a six-plex this
June. The first two houses I bought using money from a home equity loan on our
house. The third and fourth house I bought with flexible financing where the
owner paid my down payment with no carry back. He sold them to me at a great
discount (73% of appraised value). I also got a check for $1,500 after
closing, above and beyond rents and deposits. The six-plex I am currently
buying with a seller carry back. It is in a great neighborhood and has been
totally renovated. The seller is also giving me $2,000 in extra cash to do
whatever I want with it.
In all, the last year, I will have bought $479,000 worth of property
with a monthly cash flow of $1,200 after covering all expenses, debt service,
projected long-term repairs, etc. Best of all, no money has left my pocket, it
has only come in.
I am grateful for all the training, preparation, and coaching I've
received thus far that has made this possible. I am also happy to say this is
only the beginning. Besides real estate, I also have a home-based business and
part of Robert Allen's Usana team. I truly see the benefit of multiple streams
of residual income.
Keith Schmidt, Iowa
I've discovered that the secret to wealth is no secret at all!
Honestly! You can become wealthy starting right from where you are now!
How many trillions have been lost by those traveling down
(gambling on) the wrong road to wealth? The wreckage is incalculable! Why is so
much time lost and so much money wasted? Because people choose the wrong
investment vehicle.
Real estate remains the one reliable investment in which profits
can be made consistently, no matter where you live. Whether employment figures
and stock prices are high or low, the real
estate market never dries up -- it
is one of the most dynamic income-producing vehicles ever created.
The demand for housing will continue to be strong in most areas of the country
for the foreseeable future. There will, of course, always be plenty of
foreclosures, which are great opportunities to purchase properties cheaply.
And, finally, mortgage qualification today is as simple as ever, with new
mortgage packages that did not even exist twenty years ago.
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Robert G. Allen & Mark Victor Hansen
If you were to look behind every
successful investor you will discover that he or she has systematized,
stream lined, and organized the processes of real estate investing. He or she
has patiently created this system over years of trial and error until
finally, they have refined, honed, and simplified the process into a
predictable, simple, easy-to-follow process. The most efficient form of
information transfer is to learn your mentors system and follow it-whether
you've chosen real estate, the stock market, business, or the internet.
You don't have to re-invent the process, just learn the system.
Right here right now I'm
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I realize that this program could easily
sell for hundreds of dollars but, I want the opportunity to impact
your life in a positive way, and I am completely committed to helping you
achieve your goals and let's face it, the profits from just one nothing down
real estate deal completely outweighs the profits from the sale of 1
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program (though it would be well worth every penny at that price,
and I know it).
I love giving students a really great
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This much I can promise you: Nothing will
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then you think! You can live a life of prosperity or you can live a life of
regret The choice is completely yours...
Where will you be ten years from today?
Will you arrive in style? I know you're hoping for the best. But hope isn't
enough, is it? You've got to make a plan, build it upon a solid foundation and
stick with it on your way to a brighter, more prosperous future. As my friend
Bill Martin says, "In ten years you will have arrived. The question is,
where?"
Real estate can be the key to unlocking true
success in your life. I firmly believe that my program can give you the
tools you need...my very own, proven strategies for truly Creating
Wealth with Real Estate.
Whatever path you take, I know you are serious
about your financial future and I have a feeling that you and I will meet
someday. I'll enjoy hearing about your success. Until then, keep in touch
and let me know of any new real estate opportunities you come across.
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