7 Habits of a Highly Successful Real Estate Investor
We’ve assisted thousands of real estate investors generate millions of leads online. × × Demo Carrot: How many deals are you losing to your competitor’s website? Take a Free Demo But we haven’t just helped our members with their online marketing strategies but joined them in their success. For years, we’ve put ourselves in the environment of high-performing real estate professionals — interviewing them (check out our podcast), going to their conferences, becoming real estate investors ourselves, and even hosting masterminds of our own (check out CarrotCamp). Throughout our time talking with high-performing real estate investors, we’ve noticed some trends in how they run their businesses, think, and even start their mornings. Knowing those similarities, anyone can work backward to build habits leading to a successful real estate investing business. But before we dive into the seven habits of highly successful investors, we want to first talk about the mind. That is the one mindset difference between top performers and everyone else. Or, you can skip down to the seven habits. Now we know claiming that one solitary mindset shift is what makes the difference between those who succeed in real estate and those who don’t is an ambitious claim. Could there only be one difference between the people who win and those who lose? Probably not. After all, there are a lot of factors that determine whether a real estate business succeeds: Many other unforeseeable events can derail your business or turn it into a thriving money-maker. When it comes down to it – if we’re being honest – a large part of building a successful business is cold, hard luck. Did you start at the right time? Did you launch your business in the right market? Did you have someone willing to teach you? But that’s not what you came to hear. You came to find out how to ensure that your business will succeed despite the unpredictable and often frightening events that can destroy a growing business. You don’t want to know what you can’t control but what you can control. However, you can’t understand what differentiates those who succeed and those who don’t unless you first accept that you can’t control much of what goes into building a business. But here’s the dead-simple thing you can control – and if you learn to, it practically guarantees your success, despite being lucky or unlucky. Your mind. Clichés aside, how you think won’t only impact whether you succeed; it will completely make that decision. Of course, telling you to think differently than you do now is about as helpful as telling you to buy a new car without describing the brand or make of the vehicle. The only mindset difference between top performers and everyone else is the belief that you will succeed before you even start. The business can’t be an experiment, and it can’t be a we’ll-see-if-it-works undertaking. You might not know when or how it will become successful, but you must have 100% confidence that it will. That’s what differentiates someone who builds a successful business from someone who doesn’t. Despite uncontrollable circumstances, someone with an if-then mindset will quit when things get hard. Maybe it’s not possible, after all, they’ll think to themselves. Someone who fully believes the business will succeed before starting is far more likely to push through all the difficulties of growing a new business. In other words, believe that you’ll succeed, and you will. Believe anything less, and you’ll fail. It is that simple. Of course, you know what isn’t that simple? Believing with your whole being that you’re going to … Continued