Friday, September 4, 2009

Portland Real Estate

John and Laura attended a North West Real Estate Investment meeting (REI) in Portland last night. They wanted to go so they could hear Jason Gilbert present on his real estate methods.
John and Laura are friends with Teresa Graves who works for Jason in San Diego CA and since they have so much respect for Teresa, they expected to enjoy Jason ... which they did.
It was also good to meet up with friends who also attended Jason's presentation.
Since John and Laura have been investing in real estate longer than some of the other investors have been "alive", some may think they know it all, but they don't, that's why they attend these events. Continuing to learn keeps them young and vitalized.
Jason had some great ideas.
One of the attractive ideas to John and Laura was the M.L.O. Try before you buy and get paid. It's a leasing technique that is offered to a commercial property owner. The technique allows the the property owner the convenience of collecting one check for the lease, plus allows the the lessor the option to collect the rents and keep any difference in the amount paid on the lease. Jason said it well when he said, "Try before you buy and get paid..." John and Laura would like to try a variation of this.
Laura enjoyed meeting some of John's friends, like Brian Moy, who shared his excitement with Laura about an investment he is making and expecting to close soon.
It was also fun to see Mark Peters and hear about his adventures and seminars that he has attended.
Liz was there signing people in, John and Laura haven't seen her since the San Diego seminar in the spring.
There were a lot of other people who were fun to see.
We repeated a mantra:
"I can do this! I will do this! I'm committed to starting now!
Laura followed Jason's instructions to repeat this:
I will do a commercial deal in the next 60 days!"
to the person seated to her right (Mary Austin), then Mary repeated it to Laura.
"You will do a commercial deal in the next 60 days!"

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