I kind of got to this point and I was like, I want to take a breath.

It feels as though it was doing this in stages.

It was getting all the leads and getting to this point.

And now it's okay, I got, I did step one.

I'm still in kind of like shock, take a breath, re-evaluate mode.

Okay. mode. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Real Estate and Financial Independence Podcast. My name is Chad Carson. You can call me a coach, and this is a show all about

investing in real estate, achieving financial independence, and doing more of what

matters. I've got a fun episode for you today. The title is under contract, how a new investor

found and then tied up his first deal. And so if you remember, this is actually call number three

with Scott Palmer in the coaching series. This is a series in my

podcast that I'm experimenting with where I show you kind of real time as I, you can look over

my shoulder as I coach someone who's actually trying to buy deals. And in this case,

Scott is a new investor. He lives in L.A. and he's buying properties across the country in

North Carolina. I'm also going to,

if this is a successful series and people like it, I'm going to do some more experienced investors

too and kind of give some different contexts and different scenarios. But in this particular

situation, the first two calls, we went over just the basics of helping him find his financing,

line up which financing made the most sense for him,

building a team, identifying his market, and then kind of zoning in on a particular part of his market. And then how do you start finding deals? And so we went to all those kind of fundamental

detail steps that you have to go through to get started in real estate. And then on the end of the

prior call, he was a little frustrated because he felt

like there weren't enough deals coming through that he was just looking on MLS to his agent.

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