In 2014 I was 6 months in, about $50,000 in debt, and ready to quit.
I had a newborn daughter, a 3-year-old son, a six-figure job at Johnson & Johnson, and a real estate course I had paid for that was not working. I called my mentor and asked for half my money back.
He asked me a few questions and started laughing. "You don't know what you have, Doug." I had 500 investor contacts and people sending me deals. He told me to partner with a wholesaler who needed a buyer. So I called one. A few weeks later I closed my first deal and made $4,600.
That was August 2014. I closed 6 more by the end of the year, about 20 the next. Within about 12 months I had tripled my corporate income, working part-time, nights and weekends. I walked out of J&J on October 16, 2015.
The course did not change my situation. One person who had done it, across the table from me, did.
Then 2020 hit. We were about to have an almost $150,000 month when COVID shut everything down. We had to close on properties we did not know how to fund. We rebuilt the entire company from in-person and local in New Jersey to 100% virtual and national, and I moved my family to Sarasota. Since then we have done 8 figures in business with a global team and no office.
I have been knocked down and rebuilt. That is what I bring to the table.
Douglas J. Beck