{"id":372,"date":"2014-12-31T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepstonetexas.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:15:50","slug":"my-new-years-resolution-stop-buying-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stepstonetexas.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"My New Year’s Resolution: Stop Buying Houses!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

The new year is always a good time to reflect on our lives, including our business life. \u00a0When I look back on 2014, I realize that sometimes I don’t practice what I preach.<\/p>\n

The investor\/agents I coach all start with the same desire… to buy houses. \u00a0I have to tell them to stop!<\/p>\n

But isn’t that the business we are in?<\/p>\n

Investors without their license are stuck in that mode. \u00a0Their only hope of making money is to buy the house (even if they end up assigning the contract). \u00a0So when a lead comes in, the investor focuses on gathering as much information as possible so they can make an appropriate offer.<\/p>\n

But when the seller doesn’t take the offer, they leave the appointment or phone call disappointed. \u00a0NO DEAL.<\/p>\n

But as investors who are also agents, we have an advantage! \u00a0We don’t HAVE to buy the house to make money. \u00a0We can buy it, list it, short it, owner fi it, wholesale it, rehab it, and on and on. \u00a0We can do ANYthing. \u00a0And when you can do anything with the property, you can drop the mentality of “buying houses”. \u00a0No longer do you need to research deed records for equity. \u00a0No longer do you need to make an offer, then leave when its not accepted.<\/p>\n

Your job is not to buy the house. \u00a0It is to SELL YOURSELF! \u00a0Sell yourself as the solution to the seller’s problem. \u00a0The seller wants or needs to sell their home. \u00a0YOU can be the solution to that.<\/p>\n

Once you stop going to property<\/i> to buy a house, and instead start meeting sellers<\/i> to sell yourself, making deals becomes infinitely easier. \u00a0No longer are you locked into a price that makes sense to you, but you can work with the seller to get a price that makes sense to a deal… any<\/i> deal.<\/p>\n

This is not an easy task. \u00a0And there are nuances and strategies and approaches to these kind of seller meetings that we will continue to discuss on this blog. \u00a0And you will soon learn how selling yourself instead of buying houses, often leads to buying more houses.<\/p>\n

But alas, I am not perfect. \u00a0It is easy to get excited about that dilapidated home in the hot area and start imagining your next rehab project. \u00a0I am as guilty as the next person of not always practicing what I preach.<\/p>\n

So my New Years Resolution is to remember one motto: \u00a0Stop Buying Houses!<\/p>\n

To learn more, be sure to watch our videos online at StepStoneTexas.com. \u00a0And follow this blog for more details and insight into how being both an investor and an agent allows you to BE the solution for sellers, and sell yourself. \u00a0AS a consequence, you WILL buy more houses.<\/p>\n

For updates, like our facebook page!\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StepStoneRealty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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