You ever hear the quote that, “the Entrepreneur is the only person who will work 100 hours per week for themselves to avoid working 40 hours per week for someone else”? What does that say about us? Are we wired wrong? We all know people that are more than comfortable putting in their time at the office and then coming home and forgetting about it and that’s great for those people. For most entrepreneurs though, the thought of working for someone else is soul sucking and we couldn’t imagine doing anything else. We accept and welcome the hard work, the constant drive, the late hours and wear it like a badge of honor. We could never be content just punching a clock because we’re not built that way. So, does that make us crazy? Are we riddled with the entrepreneurial disease? Maybe… But if you’re like us you love it and accept it not matter what ups and downs come with it. Join us today as we talk about this and everything we’ve experienced in our journey as our own bosses.

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In the Land Flipping game direct mail is the undisputed champion for finding off market deals ways below retail value. The returns you can get off one of one targeted marketing campaign can literally make your entire year. Once you know how to pick a quality area to mail to, how to create offers that get sellers attention and how to handle the amount of calls you’ll be receiving the next logical step is to figure out how many times you want to repeat this process and scale. With that in mind, on today’s show where going to talk about what we do and how we run our businesses so that you can get a feel for what’s working for us and then you can adjust to what you’re comfortable with.

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Everyone has those moments in life that shape you into the person you are today. Some of those moments are good, some are bad and some will try you in ways you’ve never experienced before. How you react to these moments and what you learn from them can make you a better, stronger more determined person or it can have the opposite effect and completely ruin you. So, on today’s show we thought we’d share some of the moments that shaped us, how we handled them and ultimately how they made us better versions of ourselves.

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When it comes to selling land we’ve always preached a “be everywhere” mentality. That literally means post your land for sale anywhere you can think of. In our business we use Realtors and all the websites that they have available to them through the MLS. We also use Craigslist, Facebook groups, paid Facebook advertising, eBay, Specialty forums, etc.. etc.. You never know where your buyer is going to come from so you don’t want to miss out any opportunities. With that in mind, we’re gonna share just how powerful this is on the show today. We’re knee deep into Project 1 right now and we’ve got some great properties for sale that we want to move quickly so we’re gonna share how that’s been going and what all we’ve seen so far. So, join us! This is sure to be a great episode with some great knowledge!

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It’s been a long while since we just sat down and had a good ole free talk about what’s happening in our businesses and lives so we thought today was as good of day as any to just get together and catch everyone up on what’s been going on. As always we’ve got some updates on what’s going on in our businesses, the state of Project 1, what’s currently working in the land business and ofcourse we have a few laughs. So, join us today as we get together and have a little fun

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Whether we like it or not the Real Estate industry is definitely going through some changes. We’ve seen it directly in our business and know that many others are seeing it as well. These aren’t necessarily bad things though, they’re just different and maybe a little slower. If you invest in Rural Land you may have even seen an uptick in your business as people are running from major cities. The key here is that things are definitely different and how you respond to them has a direct impact on your success through out this entire thing. Are you being flexible? Are you open to change? Are you being patient? These are just some of the things we’ve had to adapt to but doing so has resulted in some really great things. So, join us today as we talk about everything that we’ve seen change, how we’re dealing with them and how we’ll ultimately come out of this way ahead of where we were.

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As your Land Investing business grows so will your need for quality team members. Some of them will be great and some will need to be pushed. On Today’s show we’re going to be specifically talking about your team of Realtors but this goes for anyone that is helping you. Each person reacts to leadership in different ways so finding that balance between pushing someone to do there best and over managing them is a delicate. There may come a time though when the work you want done just flat out isn’t getting done. So how do you react at that point? These are important questions because the land flipping business is one that can be scaled very quickly and before you know it you’ll have a small team that you need to manage. With that in mind, join us today as we talk about what we do and how we get the best out of people.

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Around March of 2019 we were lucky enough to have Bryan McCarthy join us for an Internship here at Casual Fridays REI. He was just getting out of the Air Force and had already been investing in Land but wanted to take it full time. So, he reached out to Justin with an proposal to join us and the rest was history! We couldn’t be happier that he did and it’s been great to have him with us. He’s on the show today because towards the end of last year he told us that he and his wife, Becca, were going to be taking some time and moving to London while continuing to run his land investing business here in the states. Well, they’re back now and we wanted to hear all about it! So join us today as we learn what it’s like to truly live that laptop lifestyle and invest in Land while traveling abroad

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A lot of us in the Land Flipping Business are guilty of this… You do a marketing blitz, the calls start coming in and you’re evaluating properties. You’re get some good ones that you’re definitely going to buy and you get some that are definitely not worth buying but right there in the mix are some properties that you think to yourself, “I can probably make this work”. These properties may have questionable access or they may have questionable attributes or they may have a whole list of other items that should make you turn and run but for whatever reason we buy them. Well.. That’s what today’s show is here to correct! We should know better than this! There’s so many great opportunities out there that we don’t need to risk our money on deals that might not return anything. So, join us today as we combat these thoughts and only focus on the sure things!

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There’s going to be times in your Land Investing career that you’ll speak to someone and they’ll tell you that they want to purchase your property. They’ll sound committed and excited and maybe even agree to a price but for whatever reason they need a day or so to go check out the property, get the sales agreement signed,  get you your down payment, etc. So, as anyone would, you’ll start to think you’ve got the property sold and waiting a day or so isn’t that uncommon. Then comes along another interested buyer. They tell you the same things but they seem a little bit more interested and seem to want to move a little quicker. So what do you do? Is the deal done with the first person? Do you play the two people off each other? Sell to the first person with money? These are all good questions and on today’s show we’re gonna talk all about them and how we handle it. So, join us because if this hasn’t happened yet it will definitely happen at some point in your career and you’ll want to be prepared

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