Live Testimony of the mentorship in Puerto Rico by Rick Melero
Welcome to HIS Real Estate Network- Celebrating 3 Years!
January 18th, 2009Welcome to HIS Real Estate Network. We are glad you are visiting us and are sure you will find this to be a very unique, helpful and hopefully profitable Network for you to be part of. We are a web based company focused on providing you with top of the line and most up to date information, resources, tools and actual real estate investments available in the market today.
There is a huge amount of resources available to you at any point in time through our web based membership, including: training, videos, e-books, dictionaries, tools, calculators and much more. We also have educational conference calls, e-mail access and even a board of Directors who are extremely successful in real estate investing that can answer your questions.
With all this available, we realize it can be hard to know where to start as a member or even in real estate itself. This document is designed not only to help you know how to maneuver through the abundance of information we make available to you, but even more importantly help you know (if you are new to investing) if real estate is right for you and if so what direction is best for you to learn and pursue.
It has been studied and stated that real estate has created more millionaires than any other type of investment available. Real estate is unique in that it is a tangible asset that can be invested in as income, appreciation, tax benefit, etc. while most other investments are simply one or the other. This type of investing also has its own unique types of challenges and risks.
Real estate in and of itself is generally a debt related investment (through mortgages, etc.) and our corporate view regarding taking on debt to invest is to avoid it, or at least manage it, as much as possible. The more you can pursue real estate on a cash or near cash basis the better your results and lower you risks may be long term.
In today’s economic environment it is easy to see situations where people made incorrect decisions in real estate and now are struggling to hold on to it or maybe even have lost it already. We want you to be extremely informed, able to do due diligence for yourself and comfortable in the investments you make whether you invest with us or through another avenue.
Responsible investing will provide the best result for you and for all others involved. Our purpose at HIS Real Estate Network is to provide you every avenue you need to be successful in real estate investing, but first off to help you make sure it is right for you at this time..
Is Real Estate Investing Right for Me Right Now?
Obviously, if you are a grown adult you can make any decisions you like in any area of your life. However, informed decisions are the best decisions. We are providing ways for you to determine if and even how you should pursue real estate investing. The final decision will always be yours as to how you proceed but our goal is always to be responsible real estate investors and help others do the same.
First off is a piece of wisdom given by an expert in real estate for more that 25 years. The exact quote was: “you will always make money in real estate as long as you can hang on through the hard times.” Hard times will come! You can see that now in our economy. For those who were not over leveraged and have cash reserves, no problem. As a matter of fact, this type of environment is where millionaires are made, but cash is king.
In residential and even some types of commercial real estate, the values of the properties double every 10 years (on average). This means that depending on when you buy the property, you could see huge increases in value within a year or two then stagnation for a while or literally not see any increase for 10 or more years.
If you happen to time it well, you could cash out quickly. If you dodn’t, it could be a long road to prosperity – but can still lead you there. You must be prepared for both as the real estate market is just a fickle as the stock market, but when you add the debt factor it can feel even worse.
These words are not to discourage but actually encourage you to be realistic in the wonderful ways to make money in real estate while keeping in perspective that you need to hope for the best yet be prepared for the worst so you will always end up prosperous.
When it comes to making money in real estate, there are many, many strategies to do so. At the same time there are only a couple main purposes to invest – appreciation, income (cash flow) or both. Once you determine if real estate investing is something you should pursue, we then have tools to help you find the strategy that would fit you best.
Key questions to help you determine if its the right time for you to invest in real estate:
- Is your time frame for real estate investing more than 10 years?
- Do you have a certain amount of cash to use toward investing?
- Would you get remain calm if the value of your property dropped in half?
- Do you currently have a substantially positive cash flow?
- Do you own your own home (or have you in the past)?
- Have you had more than 1 year experience investing in anything?
- Could you fund a negative annual cash flow of several thousand dollars?
- Do you have a good credit score and credit history?
All of these questions bear answering!
Be blessed,
Brian Williams
Managing Member, HIS Real Estate Network
2009 Real Estate Investor New Year’s Resolutions
January 1st, 2009Happy New Year! It’s officially 2009, and you know what that means. It means we’ll probably still be writing 2008 when signing documents or checks at least until March! But it also means the holidays are pretty much done. It’s time to get back to work.
It’s a good thing we enjoy our work! How about you? Maybe you’ve spent time and money trying to learn about and get involved in real estate investing but aren’t yet using everything you know. Is this the year that you reach out and take the bull by the horns and build your ideal lifestyle from your real estate investing business? Maybe you’re stuck in a nine-to-five grind and haven’t been able yet to completely break free.
Is this the year that you will quit your j.o.b. because you are making more money as an investor? Have you felt like you stood on the sidelines watching others make money in real estate, but are beginning to wonder if you can really do it?
Repeat after me: “This is my time! 2009 is my year!” Despite what many say, many savvy investors believe there is MORE opportunity in real estate worldwide than ever before, but you HAVE to have the eyes to see, and the nerve to seize the opportunity and take action! What does that mean for us here as we begin 2009?
Here is a list of our group’s Top 10 Real Estate Investor Resolutions for 2009. Feel free to repost these on your webblog, forward the list to friends or clients, and repost them on forums.
Following the train of thought of taking responsibility for our own success (or failure) we have personalized the list to first person, so repeat after me…
1) I will clearly articulate what I want my real estate investing business to look like in one year and set concrete attainable goals to make it happen. (We can’t get where we’re going without a goal roadmap, so let’s chart it out)
2) I will follow those who have succeeded, emulate their successes and learn from their mistakes. (It’s true. We all need mentors. Let’s be sure we are following people who have truly— and ethically— found massive success)
3) I will stay focused on my core business and not get distracted by all the “next best thing’s” (Just because an investment, opportunity, seminar, product, or book is exciting, informative, or hyped to the moon, doesn’t mean it is going to help in our specific business plans. Let’s exercise some wisdom and maintain momentum staying focused)
4) I will use the educational products I have acquired before jumping onto anything else. (Do we have unread books? Let’s read them! Unwatched trainings? Get watching. Let’s apply what we already know this year)
5) I will prioritize networking relationships with others in the real estate arena, as it is people and not technology that makes my business successful. (Let’s remember that the greatest successes are built on the greatest service to the greatest number…)
6) I will make every effort to attend at least one real estate investing seminar live event in 2008. (This is a great place where we can forge lasting business relationships that add greatly to our bottom line)
7) I will wisely invest both time and money in my real estate business. (If we aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifices, we probably aren’t going to achieve our goals)
8) I will THINK BIG! I will THINK BIGGER! (The opportunity before us is limitless. Let’s not be satisfied with small successes… let’s go for it!)
9) I will not give up! (Nothing happens without action. We must never stop taking action.)
10) I will always “pay it forward”. (Let’s remember what it means to be a Good Steward. To sow a seed by helping others— and reap a harvest of eternal significance)
My friends, we want to take a moment to wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous year in 2009.
To Your Success in 2009,
Adam Steward and the
Team with HIS Real Estate Network
What I’ve Been Reading
July 17th, 2008I read Tony Robbins’ Unlimited Power. An excellent book. Tony clearly understands the role of both gradual at-will change and the transforming power of radical global change. Each is powerful in its own way. I particularly got a lot out of his take on metaphors and how the metaphors we use in our thoughts and in our speech create the very world around us, defining who we are, what the world means to us, how we relate to others, and how we fit in the scheme of existence. It’s scary the power our words have to define us– and if we let them, to limit us. Be careful what you say and what you think. To paraphrase the Bible, “The power of life and death is in the tongue”. Guard yours and guard your mind.
I finished reading Don Burnham’s The Ten Character C’s of Success. Don isn’t as well known as he should be. This was a very good book and I highly recommend it. I haven’t met Don but others who have vouch that he is a product of the product and he practices what he preaches. That’s high praise for a man who teaches others to do nothing that would damage your integrity- no matter what.
Believe whatever you will about the global behemoth that is Wal-Mart, a company that many feel will completely take over the world…the guy behind the big-box retailer’s birth and subsequent success is a man who can teach us some things. Sam Walton’s Made in America is a great book. Some boring parts, but overall the messages are there. Use everything you have been given to leverage yourself into getting more. Treat people like family. Give people what they want. Stick to your guns. All pearls of common sense wisdom none of us is above being reminded of first learning. Not the most inspiring book, but certainly worth its price and the time you’ll take to read it.
Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Some fairly light reading to come from a man who has all that myth and mystery surrounding him. Surprisingly easy to follow, the logic is sound…but he takes the reader down darkened paths of the human psyche that make you quite aware that within each of us resides a tremendous energey and power that can be harnessed for good– or for bad.
An old professor of mine in Psychology classes in college once mentioned how great the book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris was. I checked it out, and it gives you a real insight into who we have become as a civilization that is increasingly living in an urban setting (the cities becoming our “zoo”) in mazes of concrete and glass where we are often every bit as dependent on the machinery of society to provide for us as monkeys in the zoo are dependent on their keepers for their survival.
If there is a book that has touched your life in some way, tell me about it. Now, remember, when reading positive and powerful stuff like this the rule is that you only get to keep and use what you give away and share.. So share, let’s hear it!
Danny Welsh
Check out the books here…
Dreamer or doer?
May 29th, 2008Do you dream of enjoying the finer things in life - a beautiful new vehicle, a boat that has so much horsepower it should be illegal, that bigger dream house where everything would have its own place and you’d truly feel at home (or maybe your first house), but you can’t seem to transform those dreams into a reality?
Too many dreamers dream, but never DO.
Doers have dreams too, but the difference is simple: they find (or make) a way to put their vision into action and get out the hammer and nails and build those dreams through sweat and savvy.
For too many of us the cycle is today we dream of a better tomorrow.
Instead…Today, dream. And DO Today.
Whatever you’ve avoided, put off, felt you weren’t ready for…
Do it TODAY.
Doers find a way.
Success is a journey
May 11th, 200819. “I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.”
18. “The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”
17. “There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.”
16. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”
15. “To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time.”
14. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
13. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
12. “Roads? Where we’re going on this journey we don’t need roads.”
11. “What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
10. “Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.”
9. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
8. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
7. “Focus on the journey, not the destination.”
6. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.”
5. “Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.”
4. “The journey that matters most is the journey within.”
3. “The journey is the reward.”
2. “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
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Tell Us, Where will Your Journey Take You?
Quotes compiled by Danny Welsh…that guy who really, really loves quotes!
Frank C. Haddock’s Mastery of Self Free Ebook added to Member Library
May 4th, 2008You won’t agree with everything Dr. Haddock has to say in this book, as we do not. He is truly a strange man, but a man whose passion for reaching deep within the possibilities for human self-mastery and enrichment has led him to have the knowledge and nature to explain in simple-to-understand sentences a phenomenon with which many successful people are familiar. That phenomenon is success-magnetism.
This book elucidates the importance of magnetism in daily life processes and shows you how to cultivate a mindset that will attract what you want and repel what you don’t want.
In a very real sense, this book is a manual to how to live life on your own terms, and is filled with easy steps, descriptive examples and step by step tutorials.
Among the important principles you will learn when you read this success classic:
1. You magnetize yourself with your thoughts to the circumstances you will attract in your life.
2. Fear assumes numerous disguises to hold us back, despite our insistence we do not feel “fear”.
3. Our future is our only playing field for which to achieve change.
Master these lessons in the magnetism of success, and you will go forth upon the highways and by-ways of life, endowed with a kingly confidence in your ability to win a measure of success and a level of contentment achieved by very few.
Frank C. Haddock: “There is an insidious foe to mastery and freedom, which dooms millions to self-imposed bondage. This foe is FEAR…”
Get Frank C. Haddock’s highly energizing Free Ebook as a Basic Free Member of America’s #1 Real Estate Network. Just go to http://www.hisrealestatenetwork.com/enterlibrary.php to see the entire growing success library our members enjoy access to and if you’re not already a member sign up to Join HIS and you will immediately be taken to the download page for the Mastery of Self Free Ebook
