That’s how most folks fail. They chase any deal… and end up stuck with a money pit. 💸 If the numbers don’t work? If the market’s not moving? If the property bleeds cash? ❌ You’re not investing. You’re gambling. But the RIGHT deal? 🔥 It can change your life. 🔥 It can buy back your time. 🔥 It can set your family up for decades. Here’s what makes a killer commercial deal: 📈 Cash Flow — It needs to pay for itself from day one. No guessing. No hoping. 📍 Location — If you wouldn’t want to own it for 10 years, don’t buy it. 🚀 Upside Potential — Markets about to boom = fortunes waiting to be made. I’ve seen one good deal take someone from burnt out 9–5 to total financial freedom. You don’t need 100 properties. You need one great one. Drop DEAL in the comments and I’ll send you the cheat sheetI I use to find deals that actually build wealth.

Let me tell you about something I see all the time. People jump into commercial real estate and immediately aim for the biggest properties they can find. 100 units.150 units.Huge listings with glossy offering memorandums. And on the other side of those deals? Private equity funds.Institutional buyers.Groups with millions in cash ready to deploy. That’s exactly where Vera and her husband found themselves. For months they were submitting offers on big buildings, hoping one would stick. Instead? Offer after offer got passed over. Not because they weren’t smart. Not because they didn’t understand the numbers. They were just playing in an arena designed for giant buyers. Then something changed. Instead of chasing the biggest deals in the market, they shifted their focus to mom-and-pop owned properties. And instead of trying to beat everyone on price… They offered something different. Terms. Seller financing. Within about 60 days they had two properties under contract: 🏢 A 20-unit in Dallas 🏢 A 24-unit in Dayton Both cash flowing. Both structured with owner financing. Both done without a bank involved. Why did it work? Because when you use seller financing, you stop competing in a cash war. You start solving the seller’s problem. Suddenly you’re not just another bidder. You’re the person bringing a solution. That’s the power of seller financing. You don’t need to outspend hedge funds. You just need to structure smarter deals. If you want the guide that breaks down exactly how seller financing works — how to introduce it, structure it, and use it as your advantage — drop SELLER in the comments. I’ll send it your way. And who knows… Your Vera story might be closer than you think. 💥

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Apparently the last time the seller wanted to sell one of her apartment buildings, the "buyer" turned out to be not legit. Through her broker she's asking me to send her a photo ID/proof of US citizenship, before she sends the PSA, which is...rather unusual and slightly offensive, quite frankly. Especially since we'd be buying it through an LLC (and in any event, who cares if the owner of the LLC is a USian? 😐). In response I offered to send them a redacted copy of the Beneficial Owner Information Report (BOIR) that we filed for the purchasing LLC with FinCEN last year, and hopefully that should be enough to show that I'm not a ghost or something. If it's good enough for the Feds, it should be good enough for her, no? But am I right that her asking for a photo ID (e.g. my U.S. Passport) is a bit out of the ordinary? Or am I missing something? Feel free to set me straight if I am, @Paul Thompson ... PS: we've been working on getting this deal locked up for the past nine or ten months, with multiple conference calls with the broker, the seller, and us, so yeah there's some "sunk cost fallacy" in operation here. But the numbers work, I've got the funding lined up, and I'm eager to get started with the doc review/due diligence on the asset, which is what matters the most 😇

As I was about to ask him to make an offer on my behalf, he said: Before you submit an offer, is there a way you could send me some sort of documentation of proof of funds or approval of financing if you go that route. Financing may not apply if it’s 1031. Theres a good chance the seller’s broker will want some sort of documentation with a deal this large in value. How do I overcome that? 🤔