Luke Weber - The Wholesaling Blueprint: Real Estate Investing with No Money out of your Pocket

Copyright 2020 by Luke Weber

Print ISBN: 978-1-09830-421-8 (softcover)

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-09830-422-5 (ebook)

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This book is dedicated to my team and to you.
We all win together!

Introduction

Action Brings Success.

As I sit in my office making the final revisions to this book, I am negotiating a wholesale deal that will put $21,000 in my pocket. A seller contacted me wanting $140,000 for their home, we signed a contract at $115,000 and I have a buyer willing to pay $136,000 for the property. Why did that seller contact me? How did I know how much to offer? Where did I find a real buyer? How does that $21,000 get into my pocket? All of these questions and more will be answered within these pages so that you can do this too. Are you ready to change your life? Are you ready to take action? Then keep reading!

Two years ago, I wrote my book The Flipping Blueprint and it quickly became the number-one book in the country on how to flip houses. I wrote The Flipping Blueprint because I received hundreds of questions from new and experienced investors from all over the country on how I did what I do and how could they do it too. By nature, I am a helper and I want to answer peoples questions, but it became difficult to answer everyones questions because there just wasnt enough time! Additionally, I found I was answering the same questions over and over from different people, and it took a ton of time away from my business and, most importantly, my family. I would be out with my family and those unanswered questions lingered in my mind as something I still needed to finish. I like to help people, but I also like to work efficiently. Thats when I decided to write my first book.

Just like in my real estate investing business, I wanted to automate as much as possible so I had more time to spend with my family and do the things that I love, but still be able to help people. I started writing, and writing, and writing. I put as much detail, tips, and tricks as I could into the pages, yet still have it make sense both for someone first starting in real estate investing and the seasoned professionals out there too. I covered everything from finding deals to designing houses to estimating rehabs to reselling your properties for maximum profit, and now there are investors in markets all over the country making massive profits because of these tips and tricks. But, flipping houses is not for everyone. Just because flipping is a huge source of income for me, doesnt mean that is what you want to do, and that is probably why you are reading this book. Additionally, flipping houses is not my only business or source of income. Just like before, I still receive a lot of questions about wholesaling real estate: how people can get started, where to find properties, and how to sell them. If something works, repeat it. My first book worked and recovered my time, and it helped (and is helping) a lot of people, so why wouldnt I write a book on another subject and help even more people achieve their dreams of financial freedom?

In this book, I am going to focus on wholesaling real estate, the business of selling your interest in a contract to a third party for profit (dont worry about the terminology, well go into more detail in the next chapter!). Wholesaling is the best way to get quick and easy money from real estate with no money out of your own pocket, if you believe all of the glamour stories on social media and from self-proclaimed experts. Now, lets be clear from the very start, you can do this business with no money out of your own pocket, but having some money for marketing and building systems will help you along. What the sub header of this book ( Real Estate Investing with No Money out of your Pocket ) really means is that you will be involved in real estate transactions without bringing the money to buy the property. It will still take money out of your pocket to grow this business but, ideally, that can all be done from the proceeds from those first deals that you hustle and grind to get. Ill explain how you can do that within these pages. I have done hundreds of wholesale deals all across the country, both as a buyer and as a seller, and have experienced the easy, the hard, and the crazy deals. Now I want to share my experiences with you and show you how to actually get into this business with little to no money and start making profits now!

Heres a little more about me for those who havent read The Flipping Blueprint . I am a former real estate appraiser. I bought my first house in 2003 and flipped it for a profit of more than $80,000, and I was hooked! I have bought and sold rental portfolios, flipped hundreds of houses all over the country, and I buy anything real estate related that I can make money on. From land to condos to manufactured homes to apartment buildings and everything in between (Ive even flipped a church!), if I can make money on it, I buy it!

I travel the world with my wonderful wife and amazing son. When I am not doing that, I have a real estate-investing firm (learn those words!), a real estate brokerage, and a construction company that I grow along with a few other businesses. I play soccer and cook, I go to my sons hockey games, and I have coffee dates with my wife. Basically, I get to do what I want, when I want. Now, this didnt happen overnight, and it wont last forever if I walk away from it. Dont be fooled, your real estate business will take work and continued action. If you arent feeding and growing your business, who will?

So why did I write another book? Why am I sharing even more secrets? Why not? I live a life of abundance. I know there are enough deals out there for everyone and we can all win together. Who knows? Maybe someday, you and I will do a deal together? I still buy properties from wholesalers and I still train new wholesalers how to find me more deals. Thats right, I train my competition because I dont believe they are competition. They are compatriots, co-workers, and part of my team! They are strategic partners who will help me further grow my real estate-investing firm. Why wouldnt I want them to have more skills in finding properties? Why wouldnt I want to buy a property from you? The more I help you, the more chance you can help me. Its really that simple. And besides, just like when I wrote my book, The Flipping Blueprint , I get a lot of questions about wholesaling. Remember, if something works, repeat it!

Chapter

Wholesaling, So What Is It Really?

Wholesaling is the art of selling your interest in a contract to a third party for profit. Lets break that down a little bit more, but dont forget, this truly is an art form. You can be really good at it and sell your art next to a Picasso or a Van Gogh for the big bucks, or you can just be doing funny drawings of tourists for tips on a boardwalk somewhere. Which do you want to be?

Lets do a quick breakdown of the basic parts of a wholesale deal. There are four main components to a wholesale transaction:

1. The Property
2. The Contract
3. The Assignment
4. The Buyer

The Property

The property in a wholesale deal can really be any type of property. I have wholesaled and bought from wholesalers land, condominiums, townhouses, manufactured homes, single-family homes, apartment buildings, office space, and even a church. Typically, a motivated seller owns these properties, someone who just doesnt want the property anymore for a number of reasons. There are several different ways to find these properties, and we will go into detail on these in a later chapter.