I was reluctantly sucked into a conversation with husband #2 last night because my daughter basically threw the phone at me when he called.  (Apparently she doesn't want to talk to the guy either.)  And for some reason, he felt like becoming Chatty Cathy about his future plans which include the following:

• Moving back in with Mommy (for the 2nd time since our divorce).
• Leaving a job that's physically taxing to something for lazy folk like himself, but this new job must be a supervisory position that pays extremely well and one that he doesn't have to work his way up to get or prove his work ethic (or offer tenure) to get.
• Figuring out other ways to leach off society by exerting as little effort as possible.

So, in other words, not a damn thing has changed with the guy.

Apparently he was telling me all this because maybe he thought I'd be supportive of his fruitless and futile efforts to extract unearned funds and benefits from others stupid enough to allow such a fraud to occur.

He's now 41 years old, has never looked sicker in his entire life, is smoking even more cigarettes (and even telling people that he quit), and looking for ways to freeload off the system in, what he believes, are more "creative" methods.  All I could do is roll my eyeballs and end the conversation with some white lie including, but not limited to, "the stove just blew up," "I feel sick and I'm about to throw up," or "what?? you're cutting out! whhhaaaatttt??"  

And then click.

He should know me well enough that I don't support such apathetic behavior but, then again, when you are dealing with someone who is further mentally "off" than Walter Mitty, what can you realistically expect?

My 2nd husband wasn't seemingly always such a piece of work.  I met him when I was 25 and he seemed very focused, devoted to his career in law enforcement, and was quickly moving his way up the ranks into supervisory rolls.

So...what the hell happened between then and now?

I can partially attribute this shift to the fact that I financially supported him for a number of years, thus eliminating his motivation to get off his ass.  Once you glue your ass to a couch for several years, somehow you don't want to get up anymore.  Your brain becomes mush-mash from the hours and hours a day of watching The Price is Right, Judge Judy, and Dr. Phil...all while "multi-tasking" and playing Call of Duty on your laptop at the same time.

But then I thought about it.

Am I really to blame for his downward spiral recession into the dark abyss of apathy?  Would a hustler or motivated person by nature even accept the station in life to become a "kept" person who loses interest in everything but television and Internet porn?

I don't know.

I know I'm a highly motivated person who will always be doing something whether it's writing the next American novel, trading stocks online, or even donating my time to some type of organization like becoming a paralegal for the Legal Eagles for Death Row Inmates...or something.

But to do nothing?  Nothing at all?

So, let's turn this to you.  Who are you?  What are you all about?  What motivates you?  Would you be a complete and total lazy ass if someone was taking care of you or if you suddenly had millions of tax-free dollars land in your bank account?  Be honest.  I don't care about your answer.  I only care about my answer.

If you recall, I sent you an email a couple of days ago with a "secret" to success.  But what I didn't tell you is that you have to want success to start with.  And you have to want it with a passion.  If you don't want it or you don't want to do anything to get it then...nothing I can do to help you on any level.

As you know, I just told you about my Motherload 2015 Resource Directory.  What I didn't mention were a couple of key things about my Motherload:

1)  I've had students use this to purchase millions of dollars in property including helping them get the down payment funds for their deals.
2)  I've had students hook up with multi-millionaires for partnerships through this directory which they use for their first deal or two before having the money needed to do their own solo deals.

But...with the good comes the bad which is...

* The Freeloaders or the students who don't want to lift a finger to get the deals but they want to be "partners" on deals with the people who will be ponying up the cash and the credit for the deal...and apparently they're supposed to also find the profitable deal for the student too!
* The Fools or the students who get the directory and start calling lenders, brokers, and partners on the phone without (1) any idea of what they're doing because they haven't bothered to read a simple book on real estate investing, or (2) don't have a deal but want to "secure" funding first which isn't how it works in investment real estate.

You can't be a Fool or a Freeloader to be able to use the Motherload Resource Directory to its maximum capacity.  So, because of this, I'm throwing in the needed educational materials needed when you receive your Motherload Resource Directory next week.
Oh, wait.  Did you order it yet?  If not, here's the link to the deal that ends tomorrow:
http://www.monicamain.com/motherload_seminar_deal

Okay, so we talked about the resources which, technically, are the only major component you need to become filthy rich in real estate (or business).  But what about that other thing I was talking about?  You know, about what's required to start breaking out into a new life by educating yourself, acclimating into a new world, and changing the dreadful scenery of the life you want to leave behind?

That would be at my September Boot Camp Seminar in Los Angeles.

That's where it starts.

Here's the link where you can get the directory free if you register for the seminar event.  And if you've already registered, you can get the Motherload free by going to this link:
http://www.monicamain.com/motherload_seminar_deal

Again, this deal ends tomorrow so...what the hell are you waiting for?

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main
www.MonicaMain.com

Some of you may recall but I shared with you a success story where my student, Stephen Scott, went from living in a hotel room in Texas to acquiring $18 million totaling 630 apartment units in just 26 months.

That just over 2 years!

Quite amazing, if you think about it!

So, I was able to twist his arm (not really) and he agreed to speak on Day 2 of the upcoming event that I'm having on September 13th and 14th in Los Angeles.  This is where he will lay out, step by step, exactly how he started from nothing and got to where he is in only 2 paltry years.

If you don't think this information will be instrumental to your success then don't come.  To me, this is one of those moments in your life where you get to decide how serious you are in building financial freedom with one of the most powerful ways of investing there is: apartment building investing.

I was watching television this morning and one of those annoying real estate infomercials popped up with Armando Montelango.  His pitch is to suck people into some free seminar where he (or rather his trained cronies) will sell you to death on some course and possibly a mentorship (or one of those bus tours) for tens of thousands of dollars.

My first thought was: what the hell did he do to his hair?  It looks very...feminine.  I think he was going for the "I'm a radical dude" superhero look but...it just doesn't work for him.

My second thought was: who the hell is stupid enough to fall for this cheesy sales pitch?  What type of person does it take to sign up for a free even knowing that it won't be free and knowing that they're going to be sold on thousands of dollars of useless stuff?
Yet thousands of people are doing it otherwise he wouldn't be on the air luring people into his scam-like cesspool.  You can't keep advertising if you can't keep finding the suckers to support the enterprise.

This is when it hit me.

I'm done with this part of my life.  I don't have the power to talk people out of dealing with the likes of him nor do I want to anymore.  If people want to be scammed, so be it.  It's not my job to be Mommy Monica and save the world when it's pretty clear that there are too many people who like to be suckered.

Yes, that's right.  They like to be suckered.

They thrive on sitting in a room for the thrill of being motivated.  (This is why so many people join MLM programs yet most never make a dime but rather end up losing a small fortune in the process.)  They thrive on the excitement, possibilities, and whatever other motivational spiel the used car salesman who is doing the "free training" throws at them.
But I don't do all that.  I just give you the facts.  You do this, this, and that and you can have at least $20,000 per month in passive income coming into your bank account like clockwork.

I know...pretty boring in comparison, isn't it?

Then I also realized something else: I'm tired.  Yes.  Tired.  It seems that my entire future is shifting into a different direction and I have a very well laid out plan which, unfortunately, no longer includes any training of any kind.

And what is this plan?

Keep building my health supplement company (because it requires so little brain power yet is so incredibly profitable), focus on my UCLA Professional Program (starting in September), possibly start working on my MFA next year from a UC school, and keep acquiring small, manageable, yet incredibly profitable apartment buildings.

As you can see from my "New Life" schedule above, that leaves no room for anything else.

What about that book I was talking about?

Yes, I've been thinking about the book.  But these days the thinking is more about how I don't want to do the book.  So, yes, I've been thinking about it but not in the context you may have thought.

Here's a little rule about how life works for those of you who haven't caught on yet: in order to have new things happen, you have to ditch some of the old things.  This goes for physical stuff like old clothes and crap you don't use anymore.  It goes for relationships.  It goes for businesses, jobs, careers, etc.  It goes for everything.  Out with the old, in with the new.

I didn't want to freak some of my students out who were starting to get nervous about my exit.  And, as I mentioned before, I will still be offering my information via CD and as downloads.  If I revise something or create a new course, I'll let you know.  But all the rest of the stuff needs to go to the wayside until I can reboot my mental, emotional, and physical systems right now.

My recommendation to you is that you join me in September.  I recommend you come to see Stephen Scott speak so you can fully understand how one of my students went from nothing to a multi-millionaire in only 2 years.

If he can do it, you can do it.

And yes, this is a one-time opportunity that will not be repeated.

If you ever wonder how or why I've been as successful as I have, it's because of networking, meeting people, meeting investors, and getting out there.  And, the last time I checked, you can't do that when you're sitting behind your keyboard at home.

Here is the link to register:  CLICK HERE!

The deal I have on this event ends tomorrow.

See you at the top...or rather I'll see you in LA!

Your mentor,

Monica Main
www.MonicaMain.com
 

A little while ago I laid out a recent property deal I'm working on in a Midwestern ghetto area that was listed at $260,000, I put in an offer at $190,000 (but ended up getting it accepted at $195,000) that's worth $9,479/month in bottom-line cash flow.
 
And how I had 4 investor partners fighting over this deal because of the low cost of entry, their complete lack of involvement in the property itself (including management), and the incredibly high monthly cash flow such a property provides.
 
The problem is the class of the property.  They are Class D properties, to be exact.  No, this isn't even an "official" classification yet it seems that many listing agents have been using the term "Class D" so often in the past decade that it's now becoming more "official" of a class than not.
 
The other problem is figuring out how to taken an under-performing property in these areas (such as those as low as 1/3 occupied) and finding renters.  It's not as easy as posting on Craigslist and thinking people will be beating a path to your door to live in a drug infested drive-by shooting riddled community, even if the rental rate is way below market.
 
Another building I'm putting an offer on was listed at $399,000 but since I'm going in with 100% cash with a private investor, I will able to get the seller down to $199,000 for a quick 2-week close (which you can easily do with an all-cash offer).  And this property isn't even under-performing since it's 100% occupied.
 
And what kind of building is this one?
 
Again, I'm not going to tell you exactly where it is but I will state that it's in the Midwest, it's 22 units and is located in a C- area.
 
So, what type of cash flow is a POS property like that even worth?  We're looking at a $4,167 monthly positive cash flow walking into the deal.  And this is for a Class C- POS property in a less-than-savory neighborhood.
 
First of all, where do you find investors that are interested in these types of deals?  Deals in ghetto neighborhoods that are actually worth nothing when you think about it aside from the cash flow that they could make.
 
You start creating your own network of investors through postings on the Loopnet Big Board, for example.  But the easiest and, perhaps, the most effective way to create your own network of investors is by meeting them in person.  I'll get to that in a minute.
 
The second obstacle is figuring out how to manage such a challenging property.  This task isn't for everyone.  But there is one secret to doing this that'll be something you've probably never thought of.
 
Most of these properties are lacking in tenants.  Forget finding "quality" tenants because that just won't happen.  Instead, you need to care about having tenants that will pay their rent most of the time while not harassing other tenants.  That's the best you can hope for.  Otherwise, if they're growing weed in the kitchen, so be it.  Having a makeshift "massage parlor" in their living room, whatever.  Not much you'll be able to do about this type of stuff in these types of areas.  Reality is, you're not getting tenants with 800+ personal credit FICO scores with executive jobs at Microsoft who are 100% upstanding law-abiding citizens unless you're living in a mental fantasy land of some sort.
 
How do you "cure" tenancy problems in these areas?
 
There are management companies who specialize in these types of properties.  Some of them do a kick-ass job managing a property that you wouldn't even want to fly over in an airplane let alone driving by at 90 miles per hour because of where it's located.
 
I put $0 out of pocket for each deal and they will be "financed" at a 100% LTV with all cash and no mortgage through private investors.
 
This is my newly discovered "niche" for getting private money and cashing out the deals with 100% cash.  They are easy to "sell" to private investors even though they are in "shady" parts of town because guess what?  They never have to deal with the property.  I do.  You do! Everyone elsebut them!
 
How was the $4,167 per month deal set up?
 
Here's what I arranged:
 
1)  50% goes to the investor partner; 50% goes to me.
2)  These are 10-year deals which are highly unusual for investor partnerships (which are typically 3 to 5 years in length); the stipulation is that I will cash them out on just their investment plus a 10% straight-line interest on the original cash they put into the property.
3)  The investor partner will make approximately $250,000 in cash flow over 10 years PLUS will get the $190,000 back with 10% interest.  And this is assuming we won't be increasing rents but we will.  It'll probably be closer to $350,000 that they'll receive over the next decade.
 
Why wouldn't they want to "cash out" by selling the property and taking out the gained equity?
 
Because of these reasons:
 
1)  The property is in a crappy part of town and...truthfully (if the building is still standing), it won't ever sell to another investor.  If it does, it'll be for a fraction more for what we paid for it...if we're lucky.  Why do this when I can keep raking in the cash flow?
2)  This allows the investor partner to be completely off the hook without having to wait for years (in most cases) if ever to sell that type of property.  They'll get their cash flow, their money out of it, and walk away without breaking a sweat.
3)  I get the property.  It becomes mine 100% with or without a loan attached (depending on how well I managed my cash flow on this and other properties) and, conveniently, rents will nearly double in another 5 years after the property becomes mine.  Providing I don't have a loan on the property, I'm looking at a monthly cash flow of at least $15,000 on this same POS property that's "worthless" on the real estate market as a property sale but is a freaking cash cow that would make a drug dealer drool.  (Actually, at that time, I could probably sell the property to a drug dealer who probably lives in the same building!)
 
And this is how you get rich in real estate.

Let's review:
 
1)  You'll get OPM on a POS property that no other investor wants by paying 100% cash for it.
2)  You'll cure any vacancy problems, start bringing in a kick-ass cash flow, and keep your investor happy while he never touches, manages, or deals with the property.
3)  You cash out and separate ways after 10 years.  Everybody is happy and you get the property 100%.  Even though it's a POS...who cares?  By the time 10 years rolls around, I'll be making about $8,500 per month on this property.  And this is just one of many!
 
And here's the clincher...
You do this times a minimum of 5 deals.
 
You can see what 5 x $8,500 a month can bring you.  That's $42,500 a month in case you don't have a calculator.
 
What is that a year?  That's $510,000 per year.  From a pile of POS don't-want properties in the "shady/questionable" part of town that you can get for cheap that you ain't even paying for!
 
One way you can tap into these funds is by attending my upcoming event and meeting with a few investors who will be attending, looking for high cash flowing deals just like these.  And no, they don't care where the property is located.  They are simply looking for a deal that will make them money.
 
You can see my "Monica's-Gone-Crazy!" deal on my upcoming seminar event that ends on Monday.  CLICK HERE for the deal!
 
 
If you have any questions, just call Lea.  You know the drill.  It's preferred that you CLICK HERE to check out what's going on first before eating up Lea's phone time.
 
See you at the top!
 
Your mentor,
Monica Main
www.MonicaMain.com 
 

I met a fellow writer who was talking about how she had gone through an intensive 2-year MFA program for creative writing, costing her over $30,000.  Her true passion, of course, is screenwriting.  She even sold a romantic comedy script to an "indie" (independent) production company.

I commended her on her success, even if she believed it was small, and started asking questions about whether she signed up for the Burbank Pitch Fest.  This is a once-per-year deal every June where you can meet with real agents, studio execs, and production companies looking for scripts.  She had said she never heard of it.

Hmmmm.....

This is the first part of the problem.  People jump into something without knowing what the end-goal is or how to streamline an action plan to get there.

When she asked me how much the Pitch Fest charges, I told her that it's $750 to be able to attend all the classes, meet with people, and get the maximum effect of the multi-day event.

"Well, that's too expensive!"  That was her response.

Double hmmmmm....

So, let me get this straight.  You'll dump $30,000 into an MFA degree for screenwriting, you've written a couple of screenplays, but when it comes to investing in that "moment" where you can unlock the vault to agents, studio executives, and other important Hollywood types, you can't scrape together $750?  Freaking really??!!

I started thinking about it and realized that there are a couple of things happening here.

I think some people psyche themselves out when that "moment" comes up that can change everything.  Maybe they're afraid they'll fail or maybe they're afraid they'll actually succeed. Because, after all, do you really think she wouldn't find that $750 somewhere if she knew -- without a shred of doubt -- that she'd find the person that that would ultimately buy her script in a few weeks after the event for six figures?  Or if a studio executive told her (over the phone) that he'd be there and that, since his schedule is so tight, he could only meet her atthat event that required payment to enter?

I don't know.  Really, I don't know the answer.

I'd like to think that people have no confidence in themselves.  They wouldn't attend an event because they honestly don't think they have the resources and skills (whether they have them now or will acquire them at the event), therefore thinking, "Why even bother paying the money and wasting my time?"

But here's the scary part.

I think that some people -- even when given that "moment" that can change everything and knowing that it's right before them -- would pass on it because it's too scary to change your life, even if it's for the better.

What about the responsibility and meeting new people and having deadlines and being immersed into a new world?  A lot of people simply aren't ready for that.  

They have a routine.  Go to work, complain every moment of every day about the freeway traffic, the gray cubicle they sit in, the florescent lights that are sucking the juice out of their brains through their eyeballs and how co-worker Chatty Cathy won't ever shut the f*** up...then fight traffic home, make a TV dinner, watch a minimum of 5 hours of their favorite shows before passing out.  Only 5 days a week...then you have the weekend.  Beer, BBQs (in the summer), hanging out, recharging...then start over on Monday morning.
As crappy as a life that is, at least they know what to expect.  Not many people like change or surprise, even if it probably will be better than what they have now.

My mom hated her job.  She worked in the accounting department of a multi-billion-dollar construction building supply company in St. Louis, Missouri.  She was one of those people who did exactly what I outlined above...yet she did absolutely nothing to change her life. Nothing.  She thought about it, talked about it...but actually did nothing about it.  (This is when I realized that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink it.)

In the wee hours of a Monday morning, she had a massive seizure.  Once rushed to the hospital, this is when they found the brain tumor that would kill her less than 6 months later.

But think about it.  Many heart attacks, strokes, and seizures actually do happen on a Monday morning before the start of a work day.  I believe my mom's brain was getting back into I-gotta-go-to-crappy-work mode and started creating more stress than normal.

Isn't that telling you anything??  If you're brain can't process what I'm telling you then maybe your body can understand.

You see, logically it seems like a brilliant idea not to "buck the system" and create any significant change in your life because that means "instability."  But your body would completely agree with me when I say that living a much more low-key stress-free lifestyle is the ticket to true wealth and happiness.

Not to mention the fact that you'll never have to worry about money again when you set yourself up correctly.

Many of my students don't understand what I'm doing yet I see the end-goal as clear as day. Less stress, doing the things I really want to do, investing more, working the 80/20 Principle, and working a lot less.  Of course, this requires me cutting back on my business participation.  Hence, the move that's coming up next week (and throughout July), cutting back on Global Success, and moving into different directions.

And I haven't been this excited about anything in a very long time!

The difference between me and many other "gurus" out there is that I walk the talk.  Once I decided that I was going into a different direction, I began to set myself up.  This is why I'm going from a 4,200 square foot office/warehouse down to 1,200 square feet.  Yes, cutting 3,000 square feet off is a bitch but too much crap slows the energy down.

I'm also cutting all of my phone lines down to two, one for each business.  And a fax line with Internet service.  This is down from my current 10-line configuration that I have between both companies.

My hours have dropped from 55 hours a week to 40 hours a week and now to about 25 hours per week.  Simplicity = happiness.  Happiness = less stress.

And the Universe opens up for you.

So, what am I getting at here?

I have a 2-day seminar event coming up on September 13th and 14th in Los Angeles where I'm laying out exactly what I'm doing and how you can create a simplistic, easy-to-operate (with no/low overhead) business that cash flows anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 and how you can dump those profits into Passive Income Assets for a solid streamlined 36-month (or less) retirement plan.

I have some kick-ass guest speakers including my star apartment building student who went from living in a hotel room to acquiring $18,000,000 in property in the snap of a finger...just by following my methods.  And he'll show you exactly what he did to get what he's got.

And, he's also looking for partners.

One other little surprise, too!

I have an investor partner of mine who will be in attendance looking to invest with some of my students on his property deals.  He won't be speaking but he'll be sitting in the audience with my students, getting to know you on breaks and via the Platinum VIP dinners.  His goal is to find people he has a rapport with so that he can inject some of his vast wealth into your deals.
You can't network with these people if you don't show up.  Period.

I have a deal on my seminar that is ending on Monday.  Platinum VIP is almost full.  I have 2 seats left and that's about it.  By Monday those seats will be long gone, if you want to wait around that long.

I have a buy-one-get-one free deal on the Gold VIP at a super low price.  This will also be ending on Monday by 5pm Pacific Time.
Here's the link for the deal:  http://www.monicamain.com/new_wealth_warrior_seminar_event

Now would be the time that you could be honest with yourself (because I don't care either way).  Do you want to do something to completely change your lifestyle...or not?

In case you haven't figured it out, this could be your "moment" that I was talking about.  Like Eminem says in his song Lose Yourself..."Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted.  One moment.  Would you capture it...or let it slip?"

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main

www.MonicaMain.com

P.S.  I was accepted into the UCLA Professional Program for Screenwriting today.  (Yay for me!)  My new life is getting more and more real each day as I stay committed to my New Life timeline chart.  To see exactly how it looks (and how you can use it to "form" a New Life for yourself) and how it's all miraculously falling into place since I created the timeline, click here and scroll down to the "P.S." section to see it.
 

In the past couple of months I've had a surprising slew of testimonials from students who have finally got off their asses to start doing something.

And guess what?

All of them told me the same thing.  They said that it wasn't nearly as hard as they thought it would be and that the "process" to get to where they wanted to go was more difficult to do in their head vs. how easy it turned out to be in real life.

I was talking to a student on the phone yesterday who started buying income property.  I asked him how he did it.  He said that he went through my course, followed exactly what I said, and started buying property.  Each property was small as in "quad" size but he told me that he was able to negotiate taking over these properties for a couple grand each one.  Not bad!

But I think what got me the most is how cool he seemed about the whole thing.  I think all success stories -- even small ones -- are super awesome and deserve to be showcased.  But this student (as many others seem to be) was overly humble about his successes.
The most critical part of the conversation was how he told me he did it.  It was so nonchalant like he was talking to someone at a cocktail party and said, "Yeah, so I read this book about investing in apartment buildings, did all the stuff in the book, and now I have a few buildings under my belt since last year.  And it wasn't even that hard either."

It started to get me thinking.  Is success really as "hard" as most people perceive it to be?

Then I realized something quite critical in why people never make it and I've been able to flesh out exactly 3 reasons why people fail.
Reason #1:  Most people who grew up with the "broke" (or even worse, "poor") mentality can't possibly wrap their heads around the fact that there is endless abundance out there and that they deserve a nice big piece of it.  I was at Niagara Falls last week and the amount of water that pours over every second is mind boggling.  The first thing you have to ask is,"Where does all the water come from?"  And then, "How come it never stops?"  It's calledendless abundance and it's available everywhere in every aspect of life from water to food to money to happiness.  Until you can grasp it, understand it, and truly know it deep inside of you, success and prosperity will continue to elude you.

Reason #2:  For the lucky low percentile of people who actually know what they want to do with their lives (or at least have some glimmering idea), it seems that the value of apprenticeship has been stripped out of our get-it-now society and has been replaced with the "osmosis" mentality.  Apparently people are supposed to go to sleep and wake up with all of the education, experience, and knowledge they need to accomplish their goals.  No need for reading or study or gaining experience as having your own "boots on the ground." After all, time is too valuable and better spent watching America's Got Talent, CSI, 24, and every other show you have recorded so...obviously there is no other time to devote to even simple reading to gain the knowledge you need just to get started on your success plight.

Reason #3:  Lack of action.  For those who do make the effort to gain the necessary knowledge -- whether they have spent devoted years to every book, course, video, seminar, etc. or they just finished reading a book on the subject -- many simply do nothing more than park the materials on a shelf to collect dust while they promise themselves that somedaythey'll get around to implementing what they've learned after [fill in the blank] happens. Unfortunately, "someday" means never.  By the time a couple of years roll around, you'll have forgotten what you've learned anyway and/or it'll become outdated and you'll have to start over building your mental knowledge base.  Not only is action required but it has to be consistent, well-planned, and "massive" (as Tony Robbins talks about).  As I tell my students over and over again, to be successful in mail order, you only need 1 out of 100 people to buy your product.  Reality is that 99 out of 100 people will throw away your marketing piece.  But you only need that 1 person out of 100 to buy from you and you can become a multi-millionaire within just a handful of months.  Yet that's a 99% failure rate, right?  But to get to that 1 success out of 100 means you have to "try" 100 times.  Trying only 1 or 2 times will get you exactly nowhere.

To achieve success -- whatever that may be in your mind -- is fairly easy to do.  It's getting rid of the psychological demons that keep telling you how hard things are going to be that's really the most difficult thing to accomplish.  That's why I say that my "dumber" students tend to be successful.  Their demons don't exist as much as for those who are "smart" and have to over-analyze/complicate everything.

I have been barraged with emails from students who have been asking me about whether I'll be doing anymore mentorship groups.  I may do another couple of groups before the end of the year but I do not have them scheduled at this time.

My students keep asking me about whether I'm truly going to disappear into the sunset or not. I'm still sitting on the fence.  On one hand, I like training and helping people.  On the other hand, it pains me to go through a bunch of students who get my stuff yet do nothing with it. Maybe if I stopped focusing on the non-doers and focused exclusively on the doers then I'd feel a much deeper sense in the gratification of helping people.

After all, don't we all have to focus on the glass being half full instead of half empty?

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main
 

Right now I'm on my way to Michigan.  Many of you know that I've been going back and forth between California to Michigan (and back again) for the past 4 years.

There are a couple of reasons I'm going.

1)  To set up the new warehouse for my health supplement company.

2)  To look at some incredible cash flowing property deals.

Now, many of you who aren't familiar with the greater Detroit area don't know what's really going on there.  And since you probably don't know what's going on, I'm about to "clue" you in.

Detroit is getting worse.  Much worse.  If you thought it was a 3rd-world-country war zone, that's true...plus a lot worse than that!  When a city goes bankrupt, it affects many things including local businesses, job opportunities, and the need to take on "extracurricular" activities (i.e. illegal activities) to support your family.  When people are hungry, they become desperate.

People are getting shot and killed for a few bucks in their wallet.  People fear going to a gas station since many end up getting car jacked while filling up their tanks.

But I think the most horrifying truth about all these tragedies that happen multiple times a day in Detroit is that, on top of it getting progressively worse, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.

I did some research on exactly when the most beautiful formerly-higher-end Detroit neighborhoods with these gorgeous English tudors went from "normal" neighborhoods to downtrodden hell-holes.  But I didn't get the answers I was looking for.  In fact, when I did pinpoint the "when," I was even more bamboozled as to the "why" part of the equation.

You'd think, just by understanding when the Big 3 auto manufacturers started declining in the 1960s, that these neighborhoods would have started unraveling about then...or maybe a decade later like in the 1970s perhaps.  Right?

Wrong.

Strangely, a lot of these gorgeous neighborhoods with stellar and unmatched architectural beauty started falling apart to "the element" in the mid-1990s.

I know.  It's pretty freaking startling, isn't it?

Why the 1990s?

No clue.  And that's what scares me the most.

It reminds me of a school of fish.  You don't know who the leader is.  But one of them is the leader.  And it's uncanny how fast they change course in near-unison within a fraction of a second without a "why" or "when" to use as a barometer.

That's much how Detroit is except that you can bank on one thing being for certain: when it changes, it just gets worse.  Never better.  You just don't know which neighborhoods will suddenly go to hell in a hand-basket or when.

Everyone in Detroit is running scared right now.  It's like someone sucked all the oxygen out of the air while normal law-abiding citizens either prepare for war in the streets or are packing up their caravans and leaving everything behind for good.

So, why do I bother with an area that's a war zone?

First of all, you can still buy smart.  There are "somewhat bad" areas, "just bad" areas, and "really bad" areas.  Yes, it's like taking "Class D" properties and giving them grades.  So, you have Class D+, Class D, and Class D-.

But what about Class C...or even Class B?

See, that's the part I'm getting at here.  You don't have to take a war-zone area like Detroit and choose while level of shitty you will subject yourself to.

Instead, you bank on the fear with apartment building owners running around like chickens with their heads cut off, thinking the world is ending, and wanting to get out before "all hell breaks loose."

Years ago I did extremely well doing letter campaigns to lists of apartment building owners in specific parts of the country that I'm targeting.  Then the bubble ballooned and the letter campaigns stopped working.  The bubble popped (or rather exploded) and rocked the banking world to the point where we were literally hours away from a complete banking collapse in 2008 (which a lot of Americans don't even know how close we were).  People who took cash out of their property by gutting their equity instantly found themselves upside down on their property. Doing creative deals with apartment owners became a thing of the past.  Letter campaigns stopped working.  Property owners started losing their properties to the bank.  We all know the story.

Recently, there's been a revitalization in letter campaigns as of about 2 years ago.

Even more recent (since only a few months ago), I've been working with an incredibly unique letter campaign targeting apartment building owners in the greater Detroit area (including Macomb County).

But...this campaign is unique.  How?  Because I'm targeting the first and most powerful sales motivator: fear!  I'm playing on the fears of "the sky is falling down" with these apartment building owners.

And it's working.

No, it's not like your traditional letter campaign where you're sending a letter to offer more to your apartment building owner or even to offer him a fair market-value price.  In fact, you're not even mentioning anything about price or an offer at all.  You're simply playing on the fear that their property is becoming more and more worthless as the minutes tick on because their area is becoming infested with the worst type of criminal element Detroit has ever seen in its history.

The good news?  You can pick and choose your deals.  You can offer them much less for their property than what's "fair" or even "market value."  And, best of all, you don't have to choose between shitty Class D property #1 or shitty Class D property #2.  Instead, you focus on the suburban cities where the element hasn't reached...yet.

And this strategy can work anywhere there is any type of criminal problem or element.  This includes Memphis, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Sacramento, St. Louis, Chicago...and on and on.

So...what does this "top secret" letter say since it's not like the rest of the letters that you'd use in a more "traditional" letter campaign?

Guess you'll just have to come to Los Angeles on September 13th and 14th to find out.  I'll be revealing this incredible secret during my 2-day Total Wealth Building Boot Camp Seminar.  I'm doing a kick-ass 40th Birthday Weekend Blow Out deal that will literally blow your mind.

Plus you'll be extremely excited to know more about the impressive guest speakers I'll be having.

Plus...something I didn't mention on my website but I have at least 2 of my investor partners who will be attending as audience attendees who will be talking with my students to find solid equity partnership deals to fund.  They'll be making the rounds, having drinks with students, and seeking out places they can put their money!

Here's the link to register and get the deal:  http://www.monicamain.com/birthday_blow_out

Questions?  Call my office after 9am Pacific Time at (661) 295-5050.

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main
www.MonicaMain.com