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The Real Estate Guys Radio Show - Real Estate Investing Education for Effective Action

In Pursuit of Excellence - What Real Estate Investors Can Learn from Olympic Athletes

The Real Estate Guys Radio Show - Real Estate Investing Education for Effective Action

The Real Estate Guys

Investing, Business

4.6704 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2010

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It takes more than desire and hard work to win a gold medal or make millions in real estate. The Guys break down the Winter Olympics to glean powerful performance principles from some of the worlds best athletes. How do real estate investors apply these important lessons in order to achieve their fullest potential? Join Robert, Russ and the Godfather and find out!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Real Estate Guys radio program.

0:03.0

I'm your host, Robert Helms.

0:04.4

As we end the Olympic Games, we're going to get some lessons for real estate investors.

0:08.8

We're going to look at what a real estate investor can learn from Olympic athletes today on the Real Estate Guys.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Real Estate Guys radio program.

0:18.9

I'm your host, Robert Helms.

0:20.1

We have a great show for you today, as opposed to those shows we have that to put you to sleep. No, today is a good one. We are fresh off the Olympic Games, the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. And, you know, all the different radio shows and TV shows went to Vancouver to sport the Olympics, and we thought we'd be different.

0:39.9

We're here in Vancouver after the whole thing's over.

0:42.5

So let's meet the guys, Russell Gray.

0:43.4

Hey, Robert.

0:45.9

Co-host and financial strategist, by the way.

0:50.8

And the man who's been investing in real estate in seven different decades, we call him the godfather of real estate Bob Elms.

0:52.3

Hi there, guys.

0:53.6

How are you doing today? Well, we're cold. It's cold here. And look how

0:57.9

beat up the tracks are. It's a terrible time to come. Don't come afterwards. Next time come

1:01.7

when the Olympics are going on. That's right. Absolutely, because you always want to be where the

1:05.4

crowd is. You don't want to get there after everybody's had all the fun, right? You don't want to chase the opportunity. You want to get there in front of it.

1:11.7

And that's exactly what we're going to talk about today.

1:13.9

All the analogies we can draw from the Olympic Games and real estate, which seem to be

1:18.3

disrelated topics.

1:19.6

But we did a fun thing at mentoring club, our local mentoring clubs that we do monthly this last

1:24.5

month. And as a throwaway question, a warm-up question, I wanted to get people talking.

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