Over the years people have asked me to summarize how to become a successful real estate investor and are usually sorely disappointed to find out that I cannot stuff all of these "secret strategies" inside one short paragraph, or on the back of a Chinese fortune for that matter.
But I can give you some overall strategies that will clearly pinpoint how to become a successful cash flowing real estate entrepreneur. Five to be exact.
Here they are...
#1. Decide on some type of Passive Income Asset that can keep giving you a positive cash flow month after month, year after year. This means narrowing down your type of what we call an "asset class" down to something that can give you this type of income. This also means avoiding those other pesky types of real estate investing opportunities that I put into the Aggressive Income category such as flipping property because this robs you of (a) long-term cash flow, and (b) valuable tax write-off benefits. I recommend investors new to the Passive Income game to think about and seriously consider residential-commercial acquisitions, namely apartment building investing or mobile home park (MHP) investing since this type of investing can give substantial monthly cash flows while helping you weather through recessions unlike other types of Passive Income Assets such as office space or industrial/warehouse properties.
#2. Find your ideal "farming area" or area in which you will be building your real estate "empire." This will be ONE area only and CAN be 1,000+ miles away from where you live. (I'll explain in a minute why you don't have to be anywhere near your assets.) Most newbie real estate investors start local to where they live. This is natural because they want to see the properties and have more of a hands-on approach to their property management. Plus, since most newbie investors get involved in flipping, they kind of need to be local to the property if they're going to do minor or extensive rehabbing on the property. Since you're getting involved in Passive Income Assets, you don't need to be in the same city in which you will invest. This gives you the freedom to literally go anywhere in the country to invest. I originally discovered this freedom back in 2001 when I realized that investing in my tri-county area (Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties) were just not that profitable. And forget about venturing down to Orange County or up to Ventura County where properties were ultra-expensive, giving no cash flow even if I were to give up 50% cash down to secure the deal. This is when I started investing on the gulf side of Florida then expanding upwards through the middle portion of the state...until I ended up in Georgia where some of my most profitable deals have come to fruition. You have to go where the cash flow is. Plain and simple. It's smart and definitely a manageable strategy IF you know how to pull it off.
#3. Getting the money and financing for your deals is quite possibly the most challenging aspect of real estate investing, especially for new investors who don't have any contacts or access to private investors. This is the secret to breaking into the business: getting the financing, getting the credit, getting the loans, and getting these fiscal resources together. Many people don't realize that they have access to more resources and contacts than they know. Others just need some doors opened up for them to get them started. The ideal way to acquire a cash flowing property deal is to have the 20% cash down and to have decent credit (700+ FICO) to be able to get approval for the mortgage financing. This is why I have extensively taught my Aggressive Income Strategies throughout this entire year (to this point) because it has allowed my students to raise this cash to get involved in these deals. But even I don't like using my own money for deals if I can help it. And that's when the benefits of understanding the art of raising capital becomes extremely valuable. For my students who think raising capital is hard, think again. It's much easier than you think once you understand the simple steps behind it that are required.
#4. Create or find a good management company to manage your out-of-state assets. This is HOW you're able to invest anywhere. You have somebody else doing it for you whether it's your own management company that you created or a management service. Many of my newbie students freak out when I tell them to buy property out of state. They're first questions are about looking at the properties and managing them. Okay, so you will have to get on a plane here and there to look at and acquire your properties. (Most escrow and closings can be done via FedEx.) You'll want to look at, say, 12 to 15 properties at a time when you fly out until you quickly realize that, since this game is all about the cash flow, looking at properties becomes a complete waste of time. (You have contractors and property inspectors who are professionals in their field look at these properties since, chances are, you are not an expert in state building codes in the state you will be acquiring properties nor are you an expert on determining if there is structural viability to the properties you are viewing...nor are you an expert in the neighborhoods in which the properties are located. It takes a few trips to your farming area to realize that you really do have to rely on EXPERTS to do this work for you and that you looking at properties yourself really does nothing valuable in the process at all.)
#5. Understand the reality on what it takes to get rich in cash flowing investments. BUY AND HOLD FOREVER. Yes, that's right. Buy the property and hang onto it until you're 6 fee under and it doesn't matter to you anymore. You only need a handful of small apartment buildings to get rich. Between 5 and 10 properties is all you need to be set for life. Rents typically will DOUBLE in most areas of the country every 15 to 18 years. And by flowing more of your profits back into each property by paying down the principle of each mortgage, you'll be able to pay each property off within 10 years. Imagine your cash flow in 15 years with doubled rents and no mortgage! Exactly. THIS is why you never let those properties go. Not ever!
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I was shocked when I received an email from my investor partner (the one who is working directly with my students...for the first time ever) and he informed me that he agreed to do a loan for $960,000 on a property deal in California. I wasn't sure what shocked me more. That he actually held true to his promise of giving up to $1 million for a short-term 18-month loan or that this is the 6th loan he's done in the past 3 weeks for my students who are working directly with him.
For those of you who missed out on working with this investor partner, that sucks for you. It really was a rare opportunity.
But...
I'm allowing more students to participate with direct partnerships with him. This is for those of you who will be personally trained by me in understanding EVERY element of cash flowing real estate...starting on September 22nd when the training will begin.
You see, this investor partner is doing more loans than partnership deals. His reasoning is that most of the partnership deals coming through are being presented by students who "clearly have no idea as to what they're doing" (his exact words as per his email). And being that I hadn't done any real estate mentorship groups at all this entire year (or for about a year, for that matter), I decided to take this opportunity to do an 8-week online mentorship group with 8 weekly 60- to 90-minute (each) webinar trainings to show you exactly what you need to know (from beginning to end) on finding, analyzing, and securing your first piece of cash flowing investment real estate.
If you didn't listen to my audio seminar yet on this special upcoming group, CLICK HERE NOW.
At the very end of this group, all participating students will be able to submit up to 3 deals within 30 days after the group ends. The beauty of this entire thing is that each student in the group will fully understand exactly how to find and present these deals to him, dramatically increasing the odds of their deals being accepted from about, say roughly, 10% to 20% (without the training) to 80% or higher (I'm guessing, of course) because of the intense training behind them on how to get it done.
Reality is, investors want to work with people who they feel they can trust with a deal...someone who seems like they know what they're doing. And if you're failing in one of the many components from presenting the numbers of the deal to looking professional then you're dead in the water, even if you have the greatest cash flowing deal since the crash of the market and getting something for pennies on the dollar.
For those of you who purchased the Raising Capital System along with the special bonus of working directly with one of my investor partners for both loans and direct partnerships, all courses were shipped last week so if you didn't get yours yet, it's coming in the mail soon.
I already sent out the contact information to my special investor so that those who got in on this deal could contact him ASAP without waiting for the course to be printed and shipped. This was a good move on my part -- sending out his contact info beforehand -- because he's already done 2 loans and put 1 apartment building partnership deal under contract. Not bad for only 2 weeks in on this program.
But last week my investor contacted me with a complaint. (I knew it was coming and he was thoroughly warned about how some of my students can be. Some are uneducated about real estate investing, don't know what they're doing while begging for a "mentor," have poor communication skills, or have a pompous attitude problem. Worst case, he'll get all of those qualities in one single student, probably driving him to instant insanity.) His complaint was that it seemed a lot of my students were "wet behind the ears" when it came to submitting deals or loan requests. Again, he was warned. He just didn't realize that this would encompass 99% of the submissions he's received so far.
This is, of course, resulting in a lot of rejected partnership and loan requests. Unlike myself who will take the time to explain what the problem is with a submission, my investor will just delete the request without any follow-up or notice to my student. So, yes, this is a great benefit to students who know what they're doing: being able to submit directly to one of my investor partners has to be one of the most valuable opportunities I've ever offered to my students. But what's the benefit of something so valuable if some students simply don't know what to do with it?
Maybe you've noticed but we're rolling up quite quickly to the end of this year (already)! I can't believe school started for my daughter already and that we're already talking about Halloween costumes. Somebody reminded me on Facebook that there are only X amount of Fridays left before Christmas...and this was over a month ago. There are much fewer now like 17 Fridays to be exact. I just counted.
I was talking to Rose the other day and realized that I hadn't done ANY real estate related mentorship groups this entire year. I got a late start, not doing my first mentorship until the spring. All 3 of my groups so far had nothing to do with real estate. The first was my Money Funnel Mentorship followed by my Success Breakthrough & Transformation and finally my Distribution Profit Money Funnel Mentorship, which is still going on right now.
Between my investor whining about how my students don't seem to know what their doing and coming to grips with the reality that I haven't run ANY type of real estate trainings online in the past year, I think it's time now. It's time to do an 8-week online real estate mentorship group. In the very least, I have to bring many of my new students up to speed on what to do, how to get started, and how to profit from apartment building real estate which, of course, is the best kind of passive income there is. And for my older students who should know everything by now, maybe it's time the enroll in a refresher course.
Effective 2016, I've done a complete make-over on how my mentorship groups are being conducted. In years past, I'd give daily assignments for 8 weeks, sparing webinars (if any at all), a handful of IM sessions and sometimes I'd do phone consulting sessions. But the groups I run now are completely different. Each week there is a thorough webinar training that runs between 60 and 90 minutes long, each week. After each webinar session, I send out what's called an Action Sheet where there are a listing of tasks that were covered in the webinar session that all must be completed before my students are able to participate in the next webinar training. For those who can't make the trainings, each webinar is recorded then uploaded into a members-only password-protected access page where the video, PDF of the presentation and the Action Sheets for each week are located.
These groups are intense but extremely effective. And this next group is the first and only real estate group for 2016.
CLICK HERE for details on enrolling in this one-time-only 2016 real estate group that will show you everything you need to know to start successfully investing in apartment buildings.
I actually had a student of mine who wants to take advantage of the opportunity where he can get as much cash as he wants from my investor partner without stating what the money is for. He didn't understand why there needed to be accountability, especially since he wanted a quick $250,000 for "something that's not really his business," as the email droned on.
Really? So, he wants to ask an investor for $250,000 and it's NOT my investor's business to know what the money will be for? Even worse, this student was angry that he had to validate what this money would be for. I even asked him point blank what the money was going to be for and he refused to furnish an answer.
Hmmmm...I don't know. Maybe he wants to make sure that he's not using the money for supplies in that meth-cooking enterprise he plans on starting in a pop-up camper in the middle of the desert. After all, there needs to be SOME accountability for the funds here. And for anyone who doesn't understand that, please note, this opportunity is definitely NOT for you.
We're in the business world here. If you go to any bank or lender without any track record and ask for $250,000 cash for any type of business enterprise or activities, they will ALL ask you what the money is for. Period. THAT, my friend, is how the business world works. And if you cannot provide these people with an answer, you won't get the cash. Simple.
After that, this student demanded that I send him the information to get in touch directly with my investor to get this loan. Remember, this is the one asking for $250,000 and refuses to divulge why he needs or wants the money. The answer was no, of course. And it's only for my students who want to learn how to work with investor partners which means they have to go through my course materials first. And he doesn't want to learn anything. He just wants somebody he can dial up to get cash wired into his account without explaining to anyone what the money is for. And that ain't gonna fly.
For those of you who want to follow the rules and who understand that this money is for real estate deals only, CLICK HERE or go to http://www.monicamain.com/raising_capital_2017 to get this valuable investor contact information.
My new investor partner will do loans from $100,000 to $1,000,000 and it's to be used for a down payment on a cash flowing piece of property. He will take an equity stake in the property or put a lien on it if you'll be just using him for loan purposes only. This will all be dependent on what type of arrangement you strike up with him and a lot of it has to do with the property itself. Again, each deal is take by a case by case basis and has NOTHING to do with me at all. I make no decisions in this. I won't even be seeing any of the deals unless he needs my advise about something, namely you and what you're all about as a student of mine.
For more information on how this all works and how you can start tapping into this cash for your deals, CLICK HERE.
The other day I had prompted my students to listen to a powerful audio seminar because I didn't feel as if writing about it would do much justice.
Of course, I should have known better.
People will only listen to about 5 seconds before filling their blanks with their own fantasies about how all of this works.
To be clear, this is in reference to my investor partner who has just recently given me the green light to allow my students to directly submit deals to him. Yes, this is phenomenal because this has NEVER happened in the last dozen plus years I've been working with some of these guys. But not only is he offering direct partnerships, he's also doing loans for down payments and rehab on property deals as well.
So, I'll give you the 30-second elevator pitch on what you need to know about my investor partner who wants to work directly with a handful of my students:
1) He's offering direct access to himself to submit deals through a special password protected website that will ONLY be offered to those who get the 2016/2017 Raising Capital Course Upgrade.
2) He's also offering a loan program where he'll lend cash on property deals provided that he can get an equity stake or put a lien on the property deal. This means that you cannot ask for money for anything else OTHER than a piece of property. Period. I'm not sure how to make this any more clear. He's not offering money for businesses or other enterprises right now. (This could change in the near future but for now it's all about CASH FLOWING property deals.
Now, let me explain a little bit about how each one works so that you have a better perspective on this direct partnership.
You'll start with a cash flowing property deal on either side of the coin (for partnership or a loan). You CANNOT submit for a partnership or loan without a deal otherwise you won't be able to submit. The system won't let you. The way the website is set up is that each box must be filled in with the appropriate information otherwise nothing can be submitted. That's the beauty of this whole thing. You'll be able to submit directly to this investor partner (and this is the FIRST TIME I've ever offered this option). But you have to have your deal, numbers, and other critical information FIRST otherwise the deal CANNOT be submitted. Simple.
I've already had students ask me a bunch of stuff about whether he'll fund a business, cars, private homes, etc. I think I was pretty clear in the audio seminar that he won't do any of this stuff. So, again, if I wasn't clear, I'm aiming to be clear now. No businesses, no cars, no private homes, and nothing isn't CASH FLOW INVESTMENT real estate related. No exceptions.
And finally, this is a brand new pilot program that I've never offered to my students so I don't know how long we'll offer this. It's ONLY available to those who get the 2016/2017 Raising Capital Course because this password-protected website with all of it's information is located in my resource directory. And no, this actually WASN'T my idea. My investor stated that he didn't want droves of people doing this and that I needed to figure out a way to weed out the tire-kickers and people who don't understand how to work with investors so it was my idea to implement this in my upcoming Raising Capital course upgrade where I thoroughly train all of my students in how to work with investors. So, it actually worked out beautifully.
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The other day I gave you a short list of 3 of my most powerful success strategies. Then yesterday I thought about something. I'm perhaps missing one of the most powerful of them all.
Giving.
Not tithing exactly, even though that counts. But I'm referring to giving to others.
Now, the issue I have with tithing to an organized sect or church is that, for many people, it feels like an "obligatory" type of deal. When anything feels like you're obligated in doing it, immediately it loses all power. Period. No exceptions. Again, I'm not saying tithing is bad. Not at all. But do an "inner check" with yourself to make sure that you feel like you're providing a great service to your church and that the act makes you feel great to the pit of your stomach...or not. The second it doesn't feel anything more than an obligation means that you need to change it up.
There's only one place I've ever felt I've received pure blessings in return for the money I give and that is giving to someone who has nothing but the shirt on his back. Yes, I'm one of those people who routinely gives to the people who stand on street corners with cardboard signs. Yes, some of them are scammers, alcoholics, and drug addicts. So what? That has nothing to do with MY intentions, only theirs. My intention is to help another human being who is in need and that is where the universal power comes in. It matters not in what they do with the money afterward as long as my feelings toward it (to help them out) is there 100%. (To be clear, I don't help absolutely everyone standing around with a cardboard sign. I "feel them out" with my gut to see if I want to give to them or not. I trust my intuition in that way.)
Whenever I give to someone who has nothing to their name, I get the greatest blessings from them starting with the first words from their mouth and their first reaction in getting the money. Usually they sit there with nobody helping out or, even worse, when people feel the need to insult them for asking for money. So, when a kind face comes with a hand full of money, it surprises them. Then, almost always, I get a "God bless you" from them. And it's genuine from the base of their being. And I receive that energy, making me feel great. Then I'm blessed in so many ways because of that energy flow.
This is why I don't like traditional "tithing." The word itself means a tenth...or a tenth of your income. So, it almost seems like a forced payment plan in a way when donating precisely 10% of what you make (gross) to a specific church organization. When things are that structured, the magic begins to dwindle just in the habit part alone. But when you donate money with your best intent and heart in the gift, you are blessed much, much more than any other format out there.
If you're not sure about what I'm talking about, the next person that you see standing there with a sign and nothing to his name, reach into your pocket and pull out a five or ten...or a twenty dollar bill, if you feel so inclined. And pay attention to what is happening within yourself when you do it. Pay attention to the blessing that you feel from the person receiving the money. And most importantly, revel in the feelings you have when you receive that blessing from the recipient of the money. They are always most grateful and the feelings within you send you to the mood with happiness and elation.
Here's what happens:
When all of these energies start flying around -- starting from your desire to give the gift to the deep sense of gratitude from the recipient to your feelings of elation from being able to help someone -- the universe responds with gifts to you. It all works like a big giant vacuum. Nothing can go "empty" for long in the universe. So, technically, your giving money to someone in great need causes this sense of "empty" as far as the energy goes in the universe. You're $20 lighter...or whatever you gave to the recipient. This allows for the universe to "rush in" to replace it, usually at least 10 fold but many times much, much more depending on the levels of energy flow between you and the recipient. I've seen returns of 100 fold or higher in some cases. The good news is that it's pretty immediate.
Here's the slippery slope though. You can't give with the sole intent to get something without any other intentions otherwise this doesn't work. You can't say to yourself, "I'm gonna give twenty bucks to that bum over there so I'll win the lottery tonight." Not gonna happen! But if you're intent is to truly help that person (and it's not only money that helps, you know), the energy intention behind it is absolutely everything in this universal equation.
Don't believe what I'm saying? Test it out. The next person you see holding a sign asking for money, IF you feel inclined to help this person then dig into your pocket and come up with some dough. Give it to him (or her) and feel the energy that comes from the transaction. As you walk away, you'll feel lighter and happier. This, in and of itself, creates more energy and this positive energy pulls to you everything that is in alignment with your soul, your needs, and your life's path.
I have some of the most awesome and supportive students (even though I complain about the "bad apples" a lot). When I sent out my last couple of emails, I got a lot of supportive emails from students telling me that they love my teaching style, that they've been implementing the things I've been teaching, and sharing some of their rather mind-blowing success stories with me. These are the emails I live for. These are the ones that keep me going.
Many of you know that I'm doing a very rare one-time 4-week mentorship group on my Success Breakthrough & Transformation Strategies. This is specifically designed for those who are struggling and banging their heads up against the wall because they claim (or maybe they really are) trying everything in their immediate power to become successful in business or investing (or both) but it's just not working no matter what they do.
So, what I wanted to do here is share some of my secrets on how success works and why it seemingly eludes you.
Success Secret #1: Stop Chasing and Start Attracting
Success and wealth absolutely HATE desperation. Just like you would hate talking to or having to do with anyone who is desperately hanging onto you at, say, a cocktail party. Wealth and success are both the same way. The more you try chasing it down, the more it escapes you. It's like running after a chicken at full speed in a backyard the size of an acre. Catching that little sucker probably won't happen. And if it does, it was at the great expense of wasting a lot of time while tiring your ass completely out in the process, making you think out loud, "Was this really worth the effort?"
Desperation reminds me of an oil drop in a cup of water. You'll notice that the drop repels the water around it, pushing it away. Yes, they "sort of" co-exist in the cup but not really. The water is under the oil, wishing it wasn't there since the oil itself is a burden upon it. You can't be that burden to success. You can't try fitting in somewhere that you don't belong. You have to BECOME wealth and success in order for it to want to infiltrate your life with its gifts.
So...what do you do? How do you stop chasing? I think the answer is within the question. STOP CHASING. It's that simple. Sit down, take a breather, re-evaluate your life and what's important, and create a money-making strategy that you're passionate about where the strong desire overcomes the desperation for the money. You then focus on the passion, the project, and the business. The money will come because you've stopped chasing it. It's that simple. Remember, you can't do things just for the money because that's chasing it down. Chasing equals success eventually coming to you because you've stopped chasing and started focusing on the passion of the project. See how that works?
The basis of this is letting go. When I start getting stressed out about my businesses or something I really can't control, the secret is saying, "F*** it!" and just letting it go. When you've done all you can do, sometimes you have to let those invisible hands help you with things you can't do on your own.
Success Secret #2: Being Grateful for What You Have Now...AND a New "Twist" to Gratitude
I'm always sitting on the fence when it comes to trying to decide whether I want to write a metaphysical book...or not. One moment I think it would be unique because it'll talk a lot about my experiences with Heaven and how things are over there (or rather here but most people don't see through that thin veil)...or if I should just keep those experiences to myself. One moment I think it would help people but on the other hand, we're such a screwed up world that I think most people are beyond help. Then I internalize and keep everything to myself. I'm not sure if that's beneficial or not but for now it works for me. As messed up and violent our world has become, sometimes internalizing is the best thing to regroup.
One of the bases of success is being grateful for what you have now. I really am grateful...for absolutely everything. I'm grateful for my beautiful daughter and every moment I get to spend with her. I'm grateful for my dog (Sally) and my 3 cats: Pineapple, Scooby and Bobo. I'm grateful for my business, my students, my Rose, everything.
But it's not good enough to throw around the phrase "I'm grateful..." then adding a bunch of things to the end as if you're reciting what you're going to say at the Thanksgiving table this upcoming November. You have to believe it, know it, and feel that sense of gratitude in the pit of your stomach for it to count. When you're grateful for what you have, even if it's only a little, the universe wants to give you more or give you ideas (those "Eureka!" moments) on how to get more. You have to respect God and the universe for what's been provided to you already (even if it's not that much) and you have to PROVE that you have that respect otherwise nothing more will be provided to you.
It floors me at how many students I communicate with who complain endlessly in an email to me. Never once do they give kudos to what they have or how they got it nor do they give thanks for the things that will be provided to them in the weeks, months, and years to come. Yes, that's right. There's a TWIST to this. You can (and should) be grateful for what you have now and the experiences you've had that has benefited you to this point. You can (and should) also express gratitude for what the universe is about to provide to you from resources to ideas to money to...all of it! Then that throws the expectation ball into the universe's court and it works every time in attracting what you've been grateful for if you do it from a state of conviction, honesty, and integrity. So, do it. Each night come up with 5 things that happened that you were grateful for that day. The next day, list 5 things that you're expecting will happen to/for you that you're already grateful for. Do this for a solid 7 days and see how magically your life changes.
Success Secret #3: Freaking Go for It Already!
Tire kickers are at the very bottom of my list of people I'd have a conversation with, usually involuntarily at that. Lazy people suck and I have no patience or use for people like this. I can't make someone be motivated. I can't teach someone common sense or how to be smart. There are a lot of limitations I have as a teacher and trainer without a working magic wand. But the basis of all success comes down to one single thing: ACTION. And you can't take action without deciding to go for it and just f****** do it already!
I love the notion of deciding on something. To me, it's quite possibly the single-most powerful action you can take without actually lifting a finger. And it's the prelude to where the magic happens. But to decide without doing, that's certain death right there. You can't say you're going to do something then waffle away into flakey-dom while binge-watching the latest season of The Game of Thrones while taking no action for your new idea. That is disrespectful to yourself and it's certainly disrespectful to the universe who, presumably gave you the idea to move forward with whatever it is you decided on to begin with. And when the universe passes out ideas that you get all psyched up about then end up doing nothing with, the ideas stop coming to you and are given to the DOERS in the world who will take action.
Fear is the biggest motivator for people to buy things. It's also the biggest action inhibitor ever known to man. Fear can physically paralyze someone into a complete stone-like state. This is why they call it being a deer in the headlights. Standing still will get you nowhere.
Let me share a little tiny secret to the universe that can make you all the difference in your life right now. The universe LOVES movement, even if you start on a path that turns out to be the wrong one, it'll quickly put you on the right path by throwing out new ideas, having different people come along with new resources, or whatever is needed to put you in the right direction. Here's what the universe hates: non-movement, stagnation. If you're going to stand still, the universe will help someone else who is in motion and in need of the assistance. It'll come back to you when you get off your ass and start moving in a specific direction.
This is why I don't worry about making mistakes. If I'm not sure of the direction I want to take but I have an "inkling" of what I want to do, I start the movement and then I'm further guided into what I really should be doing. It happens every time. You just have to TRUST the process and KNOW that this universal system will work for you...because it works every time.
If you want to go through the next 30 days with me, starting on Thursday (yes, this coming Thursday), where we will change your mind-set completely, re-wire your brain for success and wealth attraction, AND we'll create a fool-proof blueprint plan for you to follow to set up and become massively successful with a business that is directly in alignment with your passions then you cannot miss this one-time rare and never-before-done 4 week online mentorship group for Success Breakthrough & Transformation. CLICK HERE or go to http://www.monicamain.com/success_transformation_mentorship_group now to register while you still can. This is a rare group. It starts on Thursday but I'm only taking enrollees until Wednesday afternoon or until all the slots are filled up. I highly recommend this group. You never have to leave home and you'll be given all of the tools you need to completely revamp and drastically alter your life in 30 days. Guaranteed!
You're not going to believe this. Hell, I hardly believe it myself after going over it in my mind 1,000 times. This will FLOOR you in the power of those "things" that are between what we see everyday as "reality" and that world that we can tap into that's sort of "magical" in quality that defies all logic and science.
It happened on the Fourth of July, to be exact. But let me rewind a little bit more. The week before, I had finally had it with where my admin office for Global Success was located. It was an office building that seemed to be breaking apart by the day. We had constant phone problems. (Two of our phone lines stopped working altogether rather mysteriously with no explanation.) Our Internet service worked about 70% of the time. When it did work, it was slower than AOL dial-up service back in the 1990s. I would have to upload any audio or video file using my service at home otherwise the system at the office would completely crash every single time. AT&T couldn't fix it and it just got worse and worst as time went on.
There were a variety of other issues with the building that I won't bore you to death about but I'll tell you this: If you were paying attention at all to what I've been saying over the past couple of months about letting go of the things that are draining you dry (whether it be mentally, emotionally, financially...or whatever), you need to get rid of it. And fast.BEFORE it completely sinks you.
I had also been telling you about a long list of people, things, and situations I've been ridding myself of for the past several months from business activities to family and friends right down to my conniving hairdresser. Little did I know that there was more work to do. I had to get rid of an office space that seemed to be draining my energy.
Now this is the part where it kind of gets weird and strange so bear with me here. I have this "gift" (more like a curse, as far as I can tell) where restless spirits will "notice" that I notice them and they try to connect with me. Being a ghost probably sucks in its own right because they're there, floating around in this lost stage of purgatory almost, and nobody knows there there. It's like being a human being walking around and nobody can see or hear you. As you can imagine, you'd get frustrated pretty damn quick. And that's what I believe it's like for a ghost or trapped spirit.
So, this spirit...I kind of noticed right after I moved in but I felt him mostly upstairs (where my office wasn't located). When I noticed him, he wanted me to notice more of his activities. I didn't really care. As long as he stayed out of MY office, I was fine with the dude being there. But then he decided to start frequenting my office at night. He'd close my office door while I was gone. He'd throw stuff on the floor. He'd misplace things on my desk. He'd freak out my fish, killing 2 of them within 2 weeks. (This is the point where I had to draw the line.)
I started telling him that I was unhappy with his presence and that he needed to go. That pretty much did nothing. So, I finally told him that if it didn't stop, I was going to move my office altogether. (Not really because of him but because of all the other MANY issues with the building but...he probably already knew all that. He's a ghost, after all. He heard my many conversations with staff about my issues with the building for months and months.)
Believe it or not, he started being "good" for a little while with the threat of my moving. But I pissed him off fierce when I brought in a pile of boxes and started packing. This was when I moved PART of my office out into an office/warehouse space around the corner since I needed the extra space. Since he thought I was moving everything out, he started getting overbearing with his presence.
I thought it was just me but the entire office building was getting "heavy" for me in a very depressed way. I felt sad going into the building each day. Weird people and employees started coming into my life. A long-time employee of mine decided to quit suddenly. (Maybe she was part of my people purging track but I didn't realize it at the time). Rose told me that she would start feeling so depressed sitting at her desk that many days she just wanted to sit there and cry. (I thought it was just me until she told me that.)
While I was out of the country last month, I made the executive decision to pack up all the stuff and to move the office when I got back. I had made all the arrangements and let Rose (my only employee left after all of this) know that we would be moving the following week when I returned. She was surprised but relieved, I'm sure.
As a birthday gift, Ron gave me this spray called "Spray the Shit Out" or something to that effect. It was from a New Age bookstore in Michigan and was equivalent to liquid sage and some other stuff for getting rid of bad energies, I guess. My daughter got a hold of it and couldn't stop spraying it (typical for many kids with the opportunity to spray something). She sprayed half the bottle in the office I was packing up to permanently leave.
After we moved everything out, I couldn't help to notice that the heavy energy was gone. Hmmmm...this was odd. I had moved my entire office and the energy (ghost, spirit, or whatever it was) had left too? The place had a great energy when I was gone. It was light and bright and inviting. (If it had stayed that way, I wouldn't have moved in the first place!)
I had this dreaded fleeting thought. He had attached himself to me and followed me out of the office. (Later I'd realize that I was correct in this theory.)
Fast forward to the Fourth of July again. I was playing music on my rock speakers outside when suddenly I noticed that the same song started playing over and over again. I had the speakers hooked up to my iPad in my room upstairs so I went up to see what was going on. When I went into the closed room (keeping the pets out of my bedroom), this 15 lb. vase had "fallen" on the iPad and a pile of books and papers were all over the floor (with the iPad and other items). There's no way that this vase could have just "fallen over," unless we had a major earthquake (which didn't happen). This is when I realized where the spirit had landed. He was in my bedroom.
Moments later, my daughter was complaining that she had misplaced a bottle of fluid to keep her newly pierced ears clean. She had looked everywhere. It was gone. I was on my laptop on my bed. I told her that I had to shut off the rock speakers and that I would help her find the solution. I got up off the bed, shut the rock speakers off, and the moment I got back inside the solution with a cleansing pad was sitting neatly in the very spot my ass was sitting when I was on my laptop. It just had appeared there from nowhere.
I refuse to put up with this type of activity so I busted out my driest sage stick and got to work smudging my entire house, verbally expressing that no negative energies or spirits were welcome in my house and they had to leave. Pronto!
The exact second I finished my sage work and noticed that my cat Pineapple was attacking something on the floor. I looked and here's the huge ass larger-than-life -- check out the picture I uploaded here! It was the size of the largest butterfly you could ever imagine but bigger. It's a scary ass moth/bug thing and I've never seen anything like it before!
My step-son wanted to kill it. I told him no. Because I had a very strong feeling that the spirit WAS the moth. (I told you that this would get weird.) I told him to get it out of my house and he did with an oversized cup that I gave him.
It's been said that spirits can become moths. These things also mean death. Whichever way you look at it, don't you think it's weird that it showed up right when I was done saging a spirit out? I really doubt it's a coincidence. I don't believe in that sort of thing anyway. But this sort of thing with a spirit turning into a moth has never happened to me before.
Long story short (too late for that), I haven't felt the spirit in my house nor has anything happened since the moth was carried out of my house and into the darkness only moments before the fireworks display started right down the street from my house.
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