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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

31: Building a Professional Wholesaling Business with Lamar Cannon

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Business, Investing, Education

4.8 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we want to introduce you to a relatively new investor who is building a really awesome wholesaling business through the use of smart marketing, savvy business skills, and persistence. Lamar Cannon, from the Austin, TX area, shares with us his story of how he got started with wholesaling and uses the sales skills from his previous job to close more deals. No matter what kind of investor you are, Lamar’s story is going to inspire you, motivate you, and help take your own business to a new level. In This Show, We Cover Lamar’s first “accidental deal“ Negotiating directly with a bank How to avoid jumping from shiny object to shiny object Finding cash buyers Dealing with bad neighborhoods The right way to answer phone calls as a wholesaler How to determine your wholesaling “law of averages“ Tips for wholesaling with no money Plus a lot more! Links from the Show: BiggerPockets G+ Account Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Real Estate Investing How to Create an Awesome Lead Generating Website in Under an Hour with No Technical Abilities Books Mentioned in the Show The Book on Flipping Houses by J Scott The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs by J Scott Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki Good to Great by Jim Collins Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss Tweetable Topics: In business, be consistent with your strategy and focus on one thing at a time. (Tweet This!) Be solution-oriented. (Tweet This!) Connect with Lamar Lamar’s BiggerPockets Profile Lamar’s Website: We Buy Houses in San Antonio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the BiggerPockets podcast, Show 31.

0:03.3

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0:10.3

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0:16.0

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0:22.0

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0:24.8

What's going on everybody? This is Josh Dorkin, host of the BiggerPockets podcast,

0:29.1

here with my go host, Mr. Brandon Turner. Hey Brandon,

0:32.1

Hey Josh, knock knock. knock knock who's there? Yeah

0:36.2

Yeah

0:36.7

Yeah Yeah

0:40.8

excited to see me. I am indeed. That was that was not doing it. That was awesome. How

0:49.0

it's going good man? It's going good things are things are going great with with the fam with the sights

0:55.9

we we uh you and i had a a pow wow into the depths of the night last night which was a lot of fun and yeah things are great man how about yourself

1:06.7

things are good I didn't sleep much because we were skiping until like three in the morning

1:10.7

okay it was at midnight but it was actually like 1130 your time.

1:14.0

Yeah, but I was awoken by a screaming infant at 4 in the morning so you know... I'll have you know I was

1:21.7

woken by a cat walking on my face at three in the morning

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So you know what I you cannot come

1:28.0

You know you have nothing to complain about and you know the worst part about that kind of wake-up call though is the

1:34.8

fact that frankly and we're going to lose some listeners here I think cats are gross.

1:38.8

The cat that crawls in its own stuff and scratches and buries it and then goes and walks on your face.

1:46.7

That's...

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