Why Most People Who Call Themselves Real Estate Investors Aren't, And How to Tell the Difference

Walk into any real estate investing meetup in Houston and count how many people in the room have closed a deal in the last 90 days. Not read about deals. Not analyzed deals on a spreadsheet. Actually closed one. In my experience that number is almost always smaller than the name tags suggest. Everyone's an investor. Hardly anyone's investing.

Everyone you meet there is "an investor" regardless if they are investing in real estate currently or have never done a single deal; still an investor?

People will spend months/years of time reading books and researching, but never pulling the trigger. Its sad, but understandable. I have been looking into going to Peru for 20yrs.

The Difference Between Studying Real Estate and Doing Real Estate

There's nothing wrong with education. Reading, researching, attending events, all of it has value if it's moving you toward action. The problem is when education becomes a substitute for action rather than a path to it.

I've met people who could recite cap rates, DSCR formulas, and market cycle theory like a textbook, and had never made a single offer. Meanwhile I've watched investors with half that knowledge close deal after deal simply because they were willing to act on imperfect information and learn from what happened next.

Real estate investing is a contact sport. You learn it by doing it, by making offers, losing deals, managing contractors, dealing with tenants, and figuring out what you don't know by running into it at full speed. No seminar teaches that.

I guess it makes it hard to start an honest conversation in mass when so many identify as something they don't practice.

It waste their time, my time, and frankly is the most frustrating part of this business. 

i.e. people who label themselves but then don't do what the label says.

see;

attorneys, real estate agents, lenders, brokers, contractors, and investors.

The investors I work with are the ones actually doing deals, not the ones still deciding whether to start. If you're in motion and you need a construction-savvy advisor in your corner to help you move faster and smarter, that's exactly who I'm here for.

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