Real Estate Investor Success Story: 7 Dead-Simple, Secret Strategies That Lead To MS Home Buyer’s First $100k Month
We recently had the opportunity to interview Adam Johnson and Brent Moreno on the CarrotCast, two partnered-up investors who finished their first $100k month back in March. On the episode, Trevor asks them about how they got to their first $100k month — exactly what marketing strategies they used and what mindset philosophies made all the difference. If you’d prefer to watch or listen, you can go here to view the full interview. Or below, I’ve compiled 7 of the duo’s dead-simple, secret strategies that they shared on the Carrot real estate investor success story. Want to learn how they got to their first $100k month and how you can, too? Read on. Dead-Simple, Secret Strategy #1: Making Uber Do Your Driving-For-Dollars Brent Moreno is likely one of the most innovative online marketers around. While he and his partner often use tried-and-true marketing methods (PPC, Facebook Ads, Direct Mail), Moreno isn’t afraid to think outside of the box in order to get a leg up on the competition. The way he used Uber drivers to find deals is the perfect example of this. Before his real estate investing days, Moreno was a part-time Uber driver. He’d drop his wife off at work and go drive for a few hours to make a little extra money. During that time, he started an Uber Facebook group. When he finally took the leap into real estate investing and gave up on Uber driving, he had an “aha!” moment… Uber drivers literally just drive around town all day… If I could get just a few of them to send me property addresses for vacant or distressed homes, they could do my driving-for-dollars for me. So he reached out to his Uber-driving pals in his Facebook group and asked them to do him a favor. One of them took him up on it and passed him 35 seller leads, 2 of which he was able to close on. That’s just the kind of marketing ingenuity that separates top investors from the rest. Feel free to steal his strategy and try this in your own market. Who knows? Could be a game-changer. Dead-Simple, Secret Strategy #2: Building Your Inner Circle In real estate, perhaps nothing is more powerful than long-term, meaningful relationships in your market of operation. And that is a truth which Adam Johnson doesn’t take lightly: I love to make people smile. I really do. In fact, he’s built so many meaningful relationships in his community that when he walked into the local courthouse (a place he regularly visits, giving chocolates, kind notes, or snow cones to the workers whenever he leaves) to check the title on a foreclosure, something amazing happened. He overheard one of the workers talking on the phone as they said something like this: I’m sorry Ma’am, I just don’t have the authority to offer discounts or lower your payments. There’s nothing I can do. After a moment, the worker noticed Johnson in the room, said Uhh. Hold on, hold on. Let me get someone else on the phone and gave Johnson the county phone to try and help this woman solve her tax problems. That random situation turned into a closed deal for Johnson. What’s more? Johnson literally has his own set of keys to every courthouse in the county because of the relationships he’s built. Don’t underestimate the power of consistent kindness to build meaningful relationships in your community — you never know where your next deal will come from. Moreno even goes so far as to claim that 50% of their success can be directly attributed to the … Continued