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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

321: How to Negotiate Real Estate—Expert Deal-Making Tactics with J and Carol Scott and Mark Ferguson

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Would your real estate investing business benefit from better negotiating tactics? Of course it would! On today’s show, Brandon and David sit down with J and Carol Scott, as well as Mark Ferguson, co-authors of the new BiggerPockets book The Book on Negotiating Real Estate. The authors discuss several powerful negotiating strategies, plus common misconceptions about negotiating, how “winning” in negotiating doesn’t always mean the other side is losing, and how the best deals are done through building rapport (with examples of how to do just that). You won’t want to miss their tips on how to prepare for a negotiation beforehand—something that’s made them hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years—and how to negotiate with your own contractor to get the best prices possible! This episode is full of advice to help you, the investor, save money and get deals. If you want to experience better results getting what YOU want out of a deal, download this one today! In This Episode We Cover: Introducing J, Carol, and Mark Common misconceptions about negotiating How winning doesn’t always mean the other side losing The right mindset when it comes to negotiating How building rapport can get you deals Learning to shift the negotiation off of price and into something else Tips in preparing for your negotiation beforehand Negotiating with your contractor to get the best deal possible The tip that’s made them hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years How they closed on a deal using negotiating tactics to lower the price on an already great deal And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Webinar Brandon’s Instagram Be a Podcast Guest BiggerPockets Podcast 311: 6 Rules for Investing in Real Estate in the Coming Economic Shift with J Scott BiggerPockets Podcast 010 : Flipping Houses 101 with J Scott BiggerPockets Podcast 068: Being a Superhero House Flipper, Investor, and Team Leader with Mark Ferguson The Best Ever Conference BiggerPockets Podcast 189: 500 Deals, the $100,000 Wholesale Paycheck, & the Systems That Make it Work with Tarl Yarber Books Mentioned in this Show BRRRR by David Greene The Book on Flipping Houses by J. Scott The Book on Negotiating Real Estate by J. Scott, Mark Ferguson, and Carol Scott Moneyball by Michael Lewis The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner Long-Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham Too Perfect by Jeannette Dewyze & Allan Mallinger The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan Tweetable Topics: “90% of negotiation is literally the skills all of us already have.” (Tweet This!) “Treat every conversation as a discussion as opposed to as a questionnaire.” (Tweet This!) “Negotiate everything, always.” (Tweet This!) “The person who cares the least has the most power.” (Tweet This!) Connect with J and Carol J and Carol Scott’s Website J’s BiggerPockets Profile Carol’s BiggerPockets Profile J’s Facebook Profile J’s Twitter Profile Connect with Mark Mark’s Website Mark’s BiggerPockets Profile Mark’s Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the BiggerPockets Podcast show number 321.

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A personality trait for a good negotiator, it's empathy.

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And it's really being able to put yourself in the other person's shoes and figure out what they're thinking, what their motivation is, what their goals are, what they need, what they want, how they feel.

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And if you can do that, you can be a good negotiator.

0:23.4

You're listening to Bigger Pockets Radio. Simplifying real estate for

0:28.1

investors large and small. If you're here looking to learn about real estate

0:32.4

investing without all the height, you're in the right place.

0:36.0

Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited from BiggerPockets.com.

0:42.0

Your home for real estate investing online.

0:45.4

What is going on everyone?

0:47.0

My name is Brandon, host of the BiggerPockets

0:49.5

podcast here with you today, my friend my co-partner that a word co-partner in crime

0:58.1

my partner with drive made up David Green

1:01.9

David Green welcome to the show.

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How you doing, buddy?

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Thank you, Brandon, I'm doing good.

1:05.0

I just did a meet up yesterday in the South Bay Area

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and got like four or five buyers we're looking to get under contract.

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A lot of them are trying to house hack right now so

1:13.6

life is really good for me I have no complaints very cool and you got that new burbook

1:17.3

coming out pretty soon everyone's gonna I mean people are I put up thing on my

1:21.3

Instagram another day about like I got a first draft copy of your

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