Epic Real Estate Investing - Notes of Success: Mastering Real Estate with Jantzen Young | 1293
Episode Date: February 22, 2024Get ready to dive into the heart of real estate mastery with this week's episode of the Epic Real Estate Investing Podcast! Join us as we welcome Jantzen Young, the powerhouse behind the Private Money... Institute, as she shares her journey from the corporate world to becoming a seasoned land flipper and entrepreneur. In this electrifying discussion, Young unveils her winning formula for passive income, honed over years of experience in the industry. Brace yourself for groundbreaking insights as she reveals the unparalleled advantages of investing in notes secured by vacant lands, and learn how she's revolutionized the process, opening doors for aspiring investors through her innovative online platforms. If you're ready to take your real estate game to the next level, don't miss this episode! Hit that play button and let's embark on a journey towards financial freedom together. P.S. Whenever you're ready to go deeper and further with your real estate investing, looking into my partner program to help you get your first deal might be the move... take the first step here for free 👉 https://epicearnwhileyoulearn.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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After over a decade in the corporate financial arena,
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Hi. Real estate investing. Hi, Matt. Thank you so much for having me.
You bet. I've been looking forward to this, and everyone's favorite subject is passive.
income because who wants to work for it if you don't have to.
So you have kind of a different way to go about it.
I followed you on Instagram and I was like, okay, yeah, I think I want to have her on
the show.
We'll talk about this.
So before we dive into that and how you generate passive income, go ahead and give me a
little bit of your background on how you got to where you are today.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So I am a corporate girl, 13 years in financial services.
They took me right out of college and I never left the company.
I absolutely actually enjoyed my time there.
But when I was flying all over the U.S., you know, teaching all of these registered investment advisors, how they can grow their businesses and grow their wealth, your girl wasn't getting any.
So I had to figure out, you know, what am I doing wrong here?
And so, you know, I found real estate.
You know, I read this book I'm sure no one's ever heard of, rich dad, poor dad.
Right?
And I was, I was to write that down.
Exactly.
Make sure.
I gave it to my husband.
He read it in a weekend.
We're like, okay, we've got to figure out how to make this happen.
So every step that we've ever made in real estate has been with the goal of how do we get out of these jobs and retire early.
Not because I hated my job or I wasn't performing well there.
It just was a different phase of life.
At the time, we were getting ready to have our first kid and I wanted to be a parent.
So you need money to do that.
Got it.
We have a similar little background of how we got into real estate was,
I was a real estate agent.
I had a couple clients that were investors.
And I was holding their house open on the weekend.
They were taking off on the weekend.
There is.
I was like, okay, wait a minute.
I'm on the wrong side of the desk.
Like, they're getting it, but nothing.
Your boy ain't getting none, right?
Exactly, exactly.
Okay, cool.
So, so many great success stories started with the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Yeah.
Tell me, one were the two or three things that resonated with you the most out of that book.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
What a great question.
I would definitely say the whole idea of the cash flow quadrant. So I knew how to make money
myself actively. And I was completely ignorant to the idea that, wait a second, my money can be an
employee too. And I would much rather graduate to that side of the scale. So getting a little bit
more comfortable. And I said like, Rihanna, let it work, work, work, work, work. I let my money go out
and do what it has to do and be okay with letting go of some of the reins.
Yeah, that was one of the biggest things that stood out from us.
The whole concept of passive income, I mean, we both speak English.
We can take the word passive income, put them together and kind of figure out what it means.
Yeah.
But it's the concept of pursuing that as the goal.
Like, that's the intention.
That was like, oh, it's like so simple, but it was still a huge epiphany.
Yeah.
So how long ago was that then?
Okay.
So we started this process six years ago.
And it feels like I still feel very new to real estate, even after six years.
But the piece that kind of stood out on my journey was you don't have to know everything to get started.
You just have to know the first step.
It's nice to have a roadmap.
Don't get me wrong.
But just make the first step.
And it's almost like, God just sweeps the path.
And it was like, oh, I was waiting for you to make the first step.
By the way, here's the next one and the next five.
And it's been really cool to see so many.
people jump in my path and help move that along. Right. And that actually ties into, I don't know if you
want to wait, but my very first deal and how all that happened because it was a total cluster.
And whoo, that man, it turned around. So that was great. Sure. Yeah. No, let's talk about that.
But you're absolutely right. And it's been my whole philosophy as well that, you know, travel as far as you can
see. When you get there, you'll see further. Cool. So yeah. So take me into your first deal.
Where did it all begin? So again, passive income is a goal. So in our minds, we were,
thinking real estate and rentals. That's the only way to get there. So we went down that path.
We went to YouTube University. That'll get you to a certain point, but, you know, be careful with that.
So I took everything I thought I needed and we found a deal on Craigslist. I was a fourplex in our
city, went after it. And I'm dialing the phone. And I'm like, all right, I think I'm going to
buy this quadplex. And my husband's on the other side of me. He's like, maybe you have no
idea how to do this. I'm like, I'm sure the person on the other end of the phone has a clue. So,
we're going to figure this out together. So I knew enough to go online, find a hard money lender.
I knew I had my 25%, my 20% down payment. I had, by the way, that was a loan for my 401k.
So huge proponent of using money when it's appropriate. And we had a little cash in our savings
that was going to manage the rehab. We thought we were set. I had no idea what we were doing with the
inspections. I'm like, yeah, that looks great. Just kept moving along. But three days before closing,
our lender backed out. Apparently our debt. Hard money lender? Yeah. Yeah. The debt coverage ratio wasn't
there. Means that the rent that property was already producing was not enough to support the loan that
we were going to get, which we knew. That's why we were buying it. We're going to turn it around.
But so naturally, I put on my big girl pants and I called back the wholesaler and said,
I'm a fraud. I'm so sorry.
But he's a black bull me, you know.
And that was my first experience with someone in this industry that was just like, all right, take a breath.
Like, what's wrong? How can I help you?
And I've got to say the idea that I had, because, you know, I watch a lot of TV.
And that was not the reaction that I was expecting.
And I have to say that anybody who is on the fence about dipping their toe into this world, the vast majority of people that I've encountered, it's nothing but love.
and how do we work together to solve these problems.
So three days out from closing.
Closing is not happening as far as I'm concerned.
He said, hold on a second.
Hangs up the phone.
An hour later, he never even calls me back.
The title company calls me back and says, you're funded.
There you go.
Nice.
So where does the money go from?
It was a private lender.
It was a doctor in the area.
He was funding quite a few deals.
He had recently been cashed out and actually asked the title company,
hey, if you know of anyone who needs a deal, let me take a look.
we never met, never ran my credit score, never did anything.
That's a unique story.
Yeah.
So was the wholesalers connection then that you put you up?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, cool.
Yeah.
So you did another one right away, of course.
Of course, I have to, right?
So after I did that first one, took the money, I did the Burr method.
So buy, renovate, rent, and refinance.
So during the refinance process, I told the title company, don't send the money back to me.
just send the money to this other title company.
And in that purchase, we were buying our first fiveplex, dipping our toe into commercial,
which I don't know that I'll do that again.
But not commercial, but maybe just for one extra unit.
Right.
Based on the conversations that we've had before, you're not in that anymore, right?
So it's not really owning real estate anymore.
You're doing something different.
Yeah, yeah.
So I love that question.
It's not mutually exclusive.
So it's just additive.
So we still have the rentals.
I'm not looking to sell anytime soon.
But in our quest to buy more rentals, we ran out of cash.
So we went to our Ria and we're like, I guess we have to wholesale.
That's what everyone does, right?
Wholesale or flip.
And at that, I met a gentleman who was giving a speech on vacant land.
And I was like, no.
Why would I do that?
But it was really cool because, you know, he looked at this audience of 300 people.
He's like, how many of you guys are doing houses?
Like, of course, tons of hands go up and storage units and apartment buildings.
If everyone's hand is in the air, he's like, put them down.
How many of you are doing that for land?
Out of 300 people, three hands went up.
And I'm like, well, that's because it's terrible, obviously.
But he's like, guys, no, that's your competition.
And I was like, okay, your girl is listening.
All right.
Right.
But still, passive income, right?
That's what we wanted.
And flipping land wasn't it.
The cool thing about flipping land, the acquisition of that is much easier, I would say,
that on houses.
Our response rates are a little bit higher.
The pace is a little bit slower.
But it's the disposition.
When you go to sell it, that's where you have to be creative.
Because it's a specialized market.
And owner financing is just mainstream.
That's how we dispose of these assets so quickly.
But that's what got me hooked.
The fact that I could flip.
I don't have to flip it, get the cash, hope that I can find another multifamily to purchase.
I just flip the land and boom, I automatically have cash flow from that owner finance deal.
You work once and get paid for 10 years.
That sounds great to me.
How are you doing the acquisitions, though?
How are you getting the property so you could sell it on owner financing?
So the process is very similar to houses.
We're old school.
We still do a lot of direct mail.
We've supplemented that with some text message marketing.
and even some skip tracing of social media profiles.
But it's just like any other process, direct mail, say, yep.
Right.
But you have to buy the property first, right?
Tell me about it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's very.
How did you become the owner where you could sell via cell?
Excellent.
Excellent.
So we prefer the wholesaling method.
And we'll just double close.
So when we set up everything and on closing date, if you can, I have not figured out how to
just wholesale it and get the note.
You do have to be the owner at some point.
So we do need to double close, even if the margins are very high just so that I can own the property first.
Got it.
Yeah.
So you're setting the seller up with the note then?
The seller, no.
So the seller typically, I've done that a couple of times, but that's not the standard.
So typically on the seller, they are getting cash for their property.
So where is that cash coming from?
From the buyer?
The down payment, yes.
Okay, the down payment.
Yes.
So the down payment.
There's enough to cover the whole purchase.
Yes.
Got it.
Yes.
And then you got, now you create the note on the sale.
Yes.
So my note, I'm really creating a note for my profit.
But the purchase is always handled by the down payment.
Understood.
Now, okay, got it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, cool.
Yeah.
All right.
So you got to, so you're just like collecting the total mailbox money.
Yeah.
No permits, termites or tenants, as they say.
None of that.
Right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Cool.
So you started doing that.
So what does it look like today?
Excellent question.
So in my own portfolio, we still flip land.
My husband has really taken over that business and we love doing that together.
But for, I don't want to say unfortunately, but it's the reality.
Some people just insist on paying me cash.
So what do I do with that?
Now, the plan was always the same. Save up the cash and go out and buy another multifamily,
but I don't know what markets your listeners are in, but here in Florida, it's hot, hot, hot.
And so even with having cash ready to go, it was becoming more and more difficult to deploy that
into assets that were the numbers made sense.
So growing very uncomfortable with my money earning zero percent for months, I went out to
other landflippers. They're all doing the same thing. But not everyone's in my situations.
So other landflippers, they have large teams.
They have to make payroll.
They have to have extra cash for marketing.
So I would go to them and say, hey, you're getting payments.
If you would rather have cash, let me know.
I did it once and then it's spread like wildfire.
And so now I became the girl who does land notes.
Got it.
Yeah.
So you are buying other people's notes so they can cash out quickly.
Exactly.
Kind of like the whole lottery thing.
Like you can have the million bucks in payments.
or you can have 600,000 a day.
Exactly.
And personally, I'll take the slow dime over the fast nickel.
Have you listened to my podcast?
Does something sound familiar?
It was like, I'm talking to the same person.
So how are you making your flipping land and you're going to other land flippers?
How come you're more cash flush than they are?
Not everyone does the same kind of business.
In my business, we have decided.
to go low volume high value. And I'm going to say high value and your house people are going to be like,
that's it. So for me, high value land is $80,000 and up. But in the land space, there are a lot of
people who are out there who have no problem doing $5,000 deals, $10,000 deals, not profit. Like,
that's what the lame is worth. So the profits are smaller than that. And that works if you have
great systems and great teams. I didn't want that. And so I'm comfortable doing a lot less deals
every year, but the deals that I do do make sense. And so we tend to go famine, famine, famine, famine,
famine, famine. We're great. Famine, famine, famine. So that's where those big influxes come in.
Got it. And that's what business looks like for you today. Yeah. We put a large piece and then we go out
and offer cash to all the people with the little pieces. Yeah. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah.
But I was really encouraged because when I did my very first multifamily deal, the fourplex,
when I went through all of that effort, remember this is my first time ever buying a property,
dealing with evictions, dealing with tenants who weren't paying and were stealing power from the other building,
not even my other tenants, dealing with contractors who showed up when they thought they should,
not necessarily what they said they would.
material delays, like all of that.
I'm navigating all of these headaches,
but at the end of the day,
I was cash flowing $1,000 a month.
I thought that was pretty good for my first deal.
But my private lender was getting $1,800 a month,
and he didn't do anything but write a check.
Even in my first deal, I was like,
I don't know how to get to that other side of the table,
but you better believe I'm going to figure that out.
Now, in my mind, I thought you needed $200,000 to get started
because that's what he had. But in the landflip, I mean, like I said, I'm dealing with people who
have owner financing on $5,000 lots. I see it all the time, $4,000 deals here, there, take that
extra cash and put it in. And what's been really, really cool is people who aren't even in real estate yet,
like a lot of my former coworkers who do have an extra $10,000, $20,000, $50,000 lying around,
it's really easy to become a private lender and a note holder
without having to have the big lead time that us active investors do.
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So what do the typical numbers look like?
So you can find someone with the $5,000 note and you call them up and then what happens next.
So for something like-
How do you find that person?
Oh, great.
Oh, there are tons of places where you can go to find these deals.
So if you're just listening and you're curious, I would love for you to check out cash for landdeals.com.
You can check out Papersack.com.
J-KL Holdings.com.
These are all great people that we've worked with in the past.
So you can find deals right now just like you go to Zill and find a house.
So in these online marketplaces, the owners of those notes are just self-identifying.
And for your first couple of deals, that's really the easiest way to do it.
After you do a few of those, then you can do the same methods that we have for traditional real estate.
Direct mail marketing works great.
Cold calling.
I haven't really tried that for my private lenders, but direct mail.
You go to one of the marketplaces.
They have a note on a property.
Are they already trying to sell?
it for cash? That's what they're trying to do.
They're trying to sell their notes for cash.
So those websites I mentioned,
those are note marketplaces.
Got it. Note marketplaces.
Correct. So you find someone with the 5K,
what is the typical offer? What does the typical
deal look like that you give them in exchange for that?
Excellent question. And so I hate
to say this legal term,
but it depends. But it's
really from a math perspective, right?
So when you go into any
investment,
You have to be comfortable with what you want out of that, right?
Same thing.
Everyone sees the same house.
12 different investors are going to have 12 different offers because they have 12 different visions.
Same thing on the note space.
For me, I care about my yield.
I want to make sure that my money is doing better than my alternatives.
My alternatives happen to be the stock market and debt because now that I am in the retirement
phase, I do need predictable income.
So I need something that is, I can't use the word, guarantee.
but predictable.
Sure.
So for me, my yield requirements are pretty modest, I think.
So 15, 16%, I'm pretty happy with that.
And then if you're brand new, it's completely reasonable to have 10, 11%.
But it's just a matter of looking at what are your alternatives.
If you're not comfortable with the stock market, then your alternative is probably a CD.
Okay.
Then you just want to do better than that.
Got it.
Someone says, how I know this is a good deal?
Oh, what's your money, girl?
good than you. Exactly. And let's just do better than that. Let's do better than that.
Exactly. Precisely. I love it. All right. Cool. So let's look at the,
the dark and dirty and nasty side of it. What about the businesses is the challenge? Where's the
friction? So the servicing side. So it's funny that you said, let's break down the word passive income.
I have yet to find something that is really passive. There's always passive-ish, passive in quotes.
So on the note servicing side, it's you now have a borrower.
You don't have a tenant, but you do have someone who's paying you every month.
Maybe they want to call and see what's their balance this month.
They were a little late, so you've got to chase them down for that.
You are now officially a bank.
So every year you've got to pull up those tax documents and fill out their 1098s for them every year.
Are you collecting their taxes?
And if not, are you checking to make sure they are actually paying their taxes every year?
because nothing's worse than getting paid back on a loan, a 30-year loan, you're four years into it,
and surprised that property just went up for auction and you're about to lose it because nobody
remember to pay the darn taxes.
So with all of that friction, there's people for that.
So there's great note servicers out there, Madison Management, Deltaoro.
You've got some excellent people who, this is what they love, this is their genius.
Just use them.
So that's it, just collections, but then you got people for that, so it's not really an issue anyway.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not so bad. But I think one of the biggest hangups that I've had from people recently that are newer to the note investing space and debt in general, because like I said, I came from stocks, bonds, mutual funds, but I hung out with a lot of stock guys.
last year we hit a period of 9% inflation, right? This year, it's a little bit better. I mean,
what, 3 or 4%? Okay, that's nice. If you are locked, basically, exactly. But, you know,
if you are locked into an asset that is only paying you a fixed 9 or 10 or 11% return and you're
stuck with this for 10 years, where does that really leave you in terms of your
real growth in your money, right? And that's been a real struggle. We mentioned earlier, I'm really
active in the fire community. So for folks who are trying to financially independent retire early,
for folks who are on that path, you know, I'm in the Facebook groups and I'm in those chats.
There are folks who retired five years ago who did not plan on their grocery bill doubling in two
years. So when you're stuck in an asset like and a debt asset like these notes,
how do you guard against that? And that's been the biggest thing.
So for us, a couple of ways that we hedge for that is manage the amount of time that we are locked into a deal.
So anytime we invest and start a new investment, we always want to outperform the market.
So like I, we said earlier, what's a good deal for me?
For me, 15% is a good deal.
So far, inflation hasn't reached that level yet.
So knock on wood quickly somewhere.
Yeah, but collectively it could though over a four or five year period if you're carrying a note.
Absolutely.
And so that's where it comes down to, are you carrying a note that's interest only? So yeah, you're getting that return, but you're getting that return and it might mean less and less over time. Or are they amortized, right? Amortized meaning just like your mortgage, you're not just getting interest every month. You're getting interest in a little piece of principle as well. Right. So because we are dealing with amortized notes every month, I've got an opportunity. I've got a little chunk of change that I can now reinvest at rates that make more sense as of today.
And that's how we, one of the ways that we manage that.
Got it.
Yeah.
Inflation.
It's an equal opportunity money destroyer.
My goodness.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, when you're lending, you're kind of on the wrong side of that equation.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That's what you're talking about.
Right.
Got it.
And so keeping those terms shorter helps.
As a rule of thumb, I love long notes because the longer the note, the more advantageous,
the interest return just because of the way amortization works. But rather than staying committed for a
full 30 years, it's totally reasonable. Even on some of these websites I just mentioned to call up the
person and say, hey, I saw your note for 30 years. It looks interesting. I would really only like
to be invested for five. So would you be open to selling five years of payments, not the whole 30?
And in a lot of cases, it might actually work out better for both you, the investor, and for the
note holder when you do situations like that.
And then again, that gives you the flexibility five years from now to readjust to that new market and that new reality rather than just getting locked in.
That went over a lot of people's heads.
Sorry.
That's okay.
That's all right.
I know how much opportunity there is in the partial notes.
And, you know, we call it here the deal after the deal.
Oh, yes.
And so I get that just to play devil's advocate.
Yeah.
You know, because when I first heard a notes or first understood them as a strategy,
I think, oh, gosh, no more property management problem, no more tenants, no more termites, no more toilets, all that stuff, right?
But then you start looking at it's like, okay, it's 100% passive and all this.
And it's, you know, you don't have to go in and manage, right?
Sure.
But as I saw it was the inflation thing is one thing.
But, you know, the bank, when they're holding a note, that's a liability, not an asset for them.
And so I saw it as, and it's taxed higher as well because it's taxed is active.
come. Yes. Yes. And so what we did, yeah, the story being I had all houses. And then I started
collecting losses, right? And I just had kept carrying them forward and I couldn't use them. And then I was
introduced to the note idea. So I started seller financing all of my less desirable properties from
my management standpoint and was able to take that money in and offset all the losses that I had.
So I was able to get more passive and keep more of the money.
Right.
But I really saw it as you have to have both.
Otherwise, right?
You got to have both.
Yes.
There's not not one is better than the other.
They both have their pros and cons.
Right.
And that goes back to what we said earlier, Matt.
When you asked like, oh, so we're not doing houses anymore.
We've graduated.
No, absolutely.
They're not mutually exclusive.
It's just additive.
And it's really cool the way that you've managed that by taking your losses from your structures and then applying that to your notes.
The way that we've really managed this as well is, remember, I started in corporate.
I know not everyone does.
So we had a pretty healthy 401K when I left both my husband and I.
And so when we left, we moved that 401K into a...
You look like your teenager, which is funny when you just talk like that.
Thank you.
I will take that.
Yes.
Let me interrupt.
No, no, you're fine.
So, yes, two years ago, when I retired, we took our 401Ks and we rolled those into self-directed 401Ks,
since we now had an LLC and we're official.
And then all the money that we had from our 401K, that's what we initially used to go out
and we binged notes like crazy.
And we blew through that money in about three months, buying up notes because exactly
what you said, Matt, there are no tax advantages to owning notes. So why not put it in an account
that is nothing but a tax advantage to count? And so I have, and I actually grew up with,
there was another really popular coaching program that was teaching people, you know, hey,
in your retirement account, why don't you buy houses, put it in there, you know, pay it off
over time, yad yada. But if you're going to buy a structure, for me, it makes a lot more sense
to buy that structure in my retail space, and meaning not in my retirement.
retirement account because of all of those beautiful depreciation options that you have.
Right.
And then the money that we have in our retirement accounts, that's where notes makes a whole
lot of sense.
But I love your strategy, too, about keeping them together.
Just keeping them balanced.
Yeah.
Every other year, the CPA says, okay, where, you know, let's balance us out.
What are you up to sell or do you have to buy more houses?
Exactly.
That's beautiful.
Oh, look, you're like giving me some interesting ideas.
I love it.
Doing it for a long time. I definitely looked my age, I think.
All right. So what are you most excited about for the future? What's going on right now?
Yeah, yeah. So I ran out of money. So as what happened, like I said, I ran out in three months, which is fun.
And so in that quest, I went to the other land coaches that I was with and got them excited about it.
Now they're buying notes for their students, went out to friends and family, got them excited about it.
But the deals keep coming, and I am flooded with deals.
So, yeah, I just started working with a couple of friends to make sure that we're educating
as many people as we possibly can about this incredible asset.
I think it's a little weird that it's all of our notes are secured by vacant land because
their notes are not new.
I mean, but you're going to see most of them secured by houses, commercial property.
So we're a little odd that we only do the land side.
There's a lot of reasons why we love land so much more.
Let me ask you this.
You said something earlier when I asked about, like, where's the hair on this dog?
And you said collecting, right?
And, you know, if they don't pay the property taxes, then all of a sudden that goes up for auction.
How do you protect yourself from that in the event that that happens?
First of all, be proactive and have a servicer.
That is their job to keep up to date with those things.
I almost don't even want to talk about if you service it yourself because I'm so opposed to it.
But if you do decide to service it yourself, it's having those check.
and being very, very clear on whether you're using spreadsheets or software, making sure that
you're staying up to date with those, especially with the taxes. So personally, any note that I have,
even if they are not already escrowing the taxes, insurance, and the HOA fees, if they're not doing it,
when I purchase it, that's a contingency. So they have to start doing it. I would rather make
sure that that's managed in-house. And then obviously, we hear this all the time,
but you make money when you buy. You also protect yourself when you buy. So if you're chasing a
certain yield, that's a great strategy. But I am personally not a fan of buying above par or buying
more, paying more than what the borrower actually owes. Sure, it'll work out in the long run
if it works out. But if they pay you off early, you just lost money. There's just a lot of factors. I
would not do that. Right. No, I got it. It makes sense.
Well, Janice has been a pleasure
If someone wanted to get in touch with you
What would be the best way for them to do that?
Oh, thank you so much.
Call me.
Yeah, so I...
Yeah, actually, I'm really easy to get in touch with on TikTok.
I'm TikTok at Flipping Without Rehab.
You can also find me on Facebook.
That's part of my coaching program.
So Private Money Institute on Facebook, you can get to me there.
And when she log on there, I actually have my personal cell phone.
So, let's chat.
Super.
Yeah.
All right.
So Facebook and TikTok.
And there we go.
Yeah, sounds great.
Matt, it's been an absolute pleasure.
Thank you so much.
It's been fun.
For sure.
Yeah, let's stay in touch.
Talk to you soon.
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