Last week I let everyone know about finally graduating from graduate school with my M.F.A. in Screenwriting.  And while I got A LOT of emails of congratulations from many of my students (thank you!), I had this one email that kind of pissed me off, even though I'm pretty sure the sender of the email didn't mean it the way I initially thought he did.

The email went like this:

"I would never have figured that you would have had an interest in screenwriting. You can find plenty of viable storylines just by going to the library and reading up on historical figures, preferably in older volumes. University libraries are best for this, because they retain such works, while public libraries are always rotating out their older stocks."

Everything's always so easy.  But we all know that it's not.  Right?

Screenwriting, for instance, is NOT just about "story lines" otherwise everyone would be writing a blockbuster movie on their laptop as we speak...yet we all know that ain't happening.  Story lines are only ONE of MANY ELEMENTS that go into screenwriting.  In fact, the story line itself is actually a smaller part of a screenplay.  Your characters, dialogue and plot points are the most important elements...in that order.  Also, what a lot of people don't know about me was that my genre is comedy.  (Yes, you read that correctly.) And I'm pretty sure that digging through a dusty old library looking for historic stories will do nothing to service MY vision for MY stories on the ridiculous funny-ass comedy scripts that I write.

Pertaining to life in general though, there's ALWAYS a know-it-all in the crowd, isn't there?  These are the same people who don't represent, in any way, how you'd want to live your own life (because they have NOTHING you'd want to emulate) yet they always want to drop in their opinion about how "easy" it is to do something.

So...if it's so f***** easy, why haven't you done it already then?

Usually they'll reply like, "Oh, I've never been interested in that but I could do that if I wanted to..." or some other such dense response to protect their empty dead-end know-it-all-ism.

But I started thinking about it.  This kind of applies to everything, doesn't it?  There's always the broke ass family member who sits around at family holiday parties, telling everyone advice about starting a multi-million-dollar business or becoming an Olympic swimmer or becoming a bestselling author...or writing a screenplay.  It's always so EASY because you merely have to do this or that to get it done.  And that's it.  Just this or that, you moron, and how dare you not know this or that?!  Because it's just so EASY.

So EASY, in fact, that they themselves have never done the things they seem to know everything about.  (What a coincidence, right?)  They've never been successful at all using any of these easy-to-do bits of advice that they seem to have no problem, without solicitation, dispensing like PEZ candy at the drop of a hat.

For starting a multi-million-dollar Internet-based business...?  Just merely do THIS OR THAT and you'll simply become a millionaire online.  EASY.  Except they haven't done it...and never will.

For investing in passive income real estate that generates tens of thousands of dollars per month in net income...?  Just merely do THIS OR THAT and you'll simply become a real estate millionaire.  EASY.  Except they haven't done it...and never will.

Because it's NEVER just simply "this or that" and then you'll be successful.  Never.  There's always much more to it.

Now, to be clear, there ARE much shorter ways between Point A and Point B in most cases.  There are options as to AVOID the pitfalls, mistakes, time-wasting and bumbling through to figure things out on your own.  In fact, it's always recommended that you get educated in the best possible way before embarking on any journey.  There are people who have gone on the same journeys that you choose to embark upon so why not learn from what they did successfully so that you can become as successful as quickly as possible while minimizing the mistakes?  That's the smart way in doing things.  Learn, educate yourself and then embark on the journey.

Over the last 2 years during my journey in graduate school I've felt that I've had too many irons in the fire.  Now that I'm done with graduate school, I can now focus on the things I want to do.  My main focus are my students and being able to bring them (you) the very best possible education in making money that you can possibly get.  This includes having the most cutting-edge strategies AND telling you what NOT to do right at the moment (as I did with what's going on with our upcoming recession).  And as I mentioned before, this also includes upping the ante with my own marketing and sales education by becoming part of a very elite top marketing Mastermind Group that costs A LOT of money.  And the cool thing about this is that I can GUARANTEE you, my dear student, that I will be divulging ALL of my new learned success information to you.  And I think it's pretty awesome that you can be part of that without you having to pay that kind of money for this top-notch once-in-a-lifetime education curve.

We ALL have to keep moving forward with learning from others whether it be graduate school or marketing seminars or reading business books.  KEEP LEARNING.  KEEP GROWING.  There's no better way to learn how to do something than to learn from someone who has successfully done it and can teach you the best way to do it from scratch with the least amount of pain and mistake-making on your part.  I love learning.  At any given time you'll see a slew of new business, sales, and marketing books that I just ordered and am in the process of reading.  Even if you get one small "golden nugget" of information from each book -- even if it's something you thought you knew before but it reminded you to maybe...I don't know, IMPLEMENT the information? -- then it's WORTH it.

I get irritated when I buy a new book and I look at the Amazon reviews.  There are know-it-alls there too.  You'll get these reviews complaining about some books having "no new information" and stuff in them that they've "read before in other books."  Blah, blah, blah...

But yet...you didn't implement any of these techniques and strategies yet?  You know it all but...you're not DOING any of it?  Instead...just looking for the next miracle book with the magic pill formula in it that goes something like: open this book, magic fairy dust will immediately come flurrying out, your life will change instantly from pauper to king, and you'll be freaking happy beyond your wildest dreams?  All from merely buying then opening a book?  

But we all know there is no book remotely like that, although I think that book in The NeverEnding Story is a close second.  In case nobody told you, though.  That book in the movie wasn't real.  The movie isn't part of real life that I'm aware of.  It was part of the amazing imagination of...a screenwriter...who coincidentally didn't go digging through a library to find the easy-to write historic story line.

My point for Bob and anyone who is like Bob in any way is this: NOTHING worthwhile is EASY.  Nothing!  There are many steps, much hard work, lots of stress, and times when you fall on your ass because you didn't make the cut. What sets apart the winners from the losers is tenacity or continuing to move forward with it despite the dark times, despite wanting to throw in the towel every 5 minutes, despite the going getting rough.  And keeping going until you make it to the finish line.  Ask anyone -- Michael Phelps, Lebron James, Oprah, Stephen Spielberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or anyone who's made it big -- it's NEVER "just this or that" and it's that EASY.  Never!

At least my student told me "congratulations," though.  At least THAT is something.

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main!

On my way back from Palm Springs I saw a man almost die on the 10 freeway.  The whole thing happened in slow motion.  There was a guy driving an older burgundy Ford Explorer and somebody cut him off.  The guy in the Explorer jerked the wheel to the right then tried to over-correct by jerking the wheel to the left.  He spun around in a donut several times starting from the slow lane then bouncing like a ping-pong ball across the freeway into the center guard rail, face instantly thrust into his exploded air bag.  His vehicle was facing traffic and my vehicle was right in front of his...nearly missing being swept up into the potentially fatal accident.

I pulled over after passing his vehicle, wanting to make sure the guy was okay.  I noticed a few vehicles laying on their horns due to the "inconvenience" of having to slow down because of this accident. WTF?  I wanted to make sure the guy wasn't bleeding to death.  Two others stopped as well.  One of the guys who stopped unbuckled the stunned guy's seat belt, getting him out of the Explorer since there was fuel and oil leaking everywhere.  More ass****s were honking their horns...again, because they were "inconvenienced" for having to slow down.

I called 9-1-1 and told them to come out because the guy needed medical attention quickly.  Apparently I was the only one who called for help for this guy.  After the 9-1-1 call, I saw the police coming up so I exited the scene.  They later called me on my cell phone for their police report.  I was their only witness on record of the accident.

On my way home, I was haunted by the accident.  My daughter was quiet too.  She had never seen anything like it in her young life.  It's hard to process on so many levels.

It's hard to realize how fragile life is and how quickly it can end at the worst stroke of fate.

It's hard to think that if we were even 2 seconds faster in our driving, that the Explorer would have spun into the passenger side of my vehicle, possibly killing my daughter who was sitting on that side of my Navigator.

And it's hard to process how shitty people can be when there's someone who needs medical attention and they, in their own selfish little worlds, are honking their horns because they are being slowed down due to this "inconvenience" in their schedule.  (This makes me hope like hell that if any of those horn-honking screwballs are ever bleeding to death on the side of the road, I hope they all bleed out without a single person stopping or calling for help on their behalf because that's exactly what they deserve.  Nothing.  Freaking jerk offs!)

So many emotions were running across the board for me in the remaining hour I had driving back from Palm Springs this past Sunday.

But leaving out the part about getting angry at the losers honking their horns while others (like me) were trying to render assistance to this poor guy who desperately needed help, when things like this happen, it makes us realize that the end can literally come at any time without any warning.

It made me wonder...am I living the life I want NOW?  If not...WHY NOT?  Life can end at any time.  And it's a waste of time to keep putting things off for "someday" or "when this happens I will [FILL IN THE BLANK]" or "when this is over with I will [FILL IN THE BLANK]."

And this is EXACTLY what I had been doing during my graduate schooling...putting too many things on hold until I finished it.  It was an interesting irony for me to come upon this accident only hours after my graduate ceremony.  Maybe it was a reminder that I should never put anything on hold and to live life to its fullest doing everything I want to do...NOW.  Not later, not next year...but RIGHT NOW.

This applies to you too.  You see, it's easy to see your life roll in from one year to the next, still talking about what you "will do someday" as the years keep moving forward.  Then you wake up 30 years older, look around, and wonder where the hell the time went.

Or you end up in that split-second accident that ends your life.  And not only did you never get to do any of the stuff you dreamed about, but now it becomes impossible to ever do any of it because you're now dead.

Pretty depressing, isn't it?

In the movie The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, there was an interesting line in the movie that kind of says everything:

Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) says, "Forty-five years goes by pretty fast."

And Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) says, "Like smoke through a keyhole."

Yes...like smoke through a keyhole.  That's how fast life goes.

Knowing how fast it's going, as you're reading this, what are YOU doing with your life that is bringing you to where you always dreamed you'd be by now?  And if you don't have a damn good answer then you're not doing good enough for yourself.

Of course, it helps to have some kind of vision of what your perfect life masterpiece looks like.  When you get that vision, you can THEN move toward that idea of your masterpiece.

And it may be as simple as sipping lemonade from your beach cottage porch and looking at the ocean as the sun sets every afternoon.  Or spending more time with your kids or grand kids.  Or traveling 1/3 of each year, seeing every wonder of the world possible and more.

Only you know what that vision is.

I used to think a vision needed to have something to do with making money.  Then I eventually realized that the money making part is what's supposed to service your dreams for yourself.  The dream isn't making the money (even though that helps to get to that dream).  The vision IS the dream.  The end-goal.  The sunset-watching, lemonade-sipping, kid-playing part of the vision.  THAT is the vision.  Not how you get there.  That's not the vision.

But here comes the clincher.  You have to DO something else in between you (now) and the vision (future end-goal/dream) that BRINGS you to the dream that you have for yourself.  Otherwise sitting around dreaming away and doing nothing about it will get you exactly nowhere except more of what you have now which may not be that great.

And the only way to get to where you dream is to push the envelope on yourself.  You have to do things that are uncomfortable, beyond your "safety" zone, and that may scare the crap out of you in the beginning.  If you're not willing to take these risks then learn to be happy with where you are now in your life because you'll never have or be anything more than where you're at right now.

Remember, you can have everything you want in life.  But you do have to find the right path to get there and just go for it.  Nobody is going to do it for you.  Only YOU can do it for you.  Only YOU can live your dreams...for YOU.

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

​​​​​​​Monica Main

I had to give up doing so much for this ending trimester of 2016 because of this damn degree thing which is why I've been relatively M.I.A. to many of my students for the past month or so, even missing my typical end-of-the-year seminar event for this.  Many of you know that I've been in a graduate program to earn an MFA in Screenwriting since October 2014.

I think I've safely clocked in more than my fair share of hearing from idiots, screwballs, and outright wack-jobs in my career so far.  And to say that this "entertains" me in some way...as Eminem would say, "That's just whacked."  (If you don't know what it means, just pretend that you do.  Roll with it, baby.)

So this latest ball of nonsense came from a non-student.  Yes, I actually interact with the outside world every once in awhile.  (Surprising, isn't it?)

I was in a restaurant talking to someone in my party at my table when, apparently, the person at the table next to us decided to chime in...because after all, he felt "invited" in some way. What was I talking about?  My take on what we can expect for our upcoming economic changes, of course.  (What else do I talk about?)  I was going into detail about the things that bothered me and realizing that, unlike what I previously predicted a few weeks back about a "soft" recession, I'm probably dead wrong about that and it's going to hit harder than I expected.

Much like the Titanic hitting the iceberg...remember that part in the movie?  The ship hit the iceberg.  There was shaking.  Then dead silence...before the ship started sinking.

We're in that "dead silence" part right now.

One particular thing has really caught my attention about our new president-elect.  Forget about all the stuff that has everybody up in arms from immigration to abortion rights.  I'm not even zeroed in on that stuff.  I pay very close attention to other things...the things that really affect the playing field for business.  And there's one particular thing that has indicated, to me, that we're probably looking at a replay of 2008...or something pretty damn close to it.

Here's what it is:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be stripped out of the picture as if it never existed.

What does that mean?

It means that we can go back to the days where predatory mortgage lending existed, as there will soon no longer be an agency to protect consumers.  This also means that the predatory lenders, knowing that there is no longer a watch-dog regulatory agency to monitor what they do at all times, will fall quickly back into predatory lending practices.

Welcome back to the no-doc loans, adjustable ARMs, and all the other bullshit that put us into the foreclosure calamity to begin with.

For somebody like me, an investor who knows what the f*** time it is, this is freaking AWESOME!  I'll get loans just by filling out paperwork without showing a lick of anything.  But, unlike most of the sheep and the dopes out there, I know HOW to work these loans for profit.  Most of the idiots out there never read contracts, don't read the paperwork, and get into properties they know damn well they cannot afford because they're greedy or they are sold the idea by some greedy broker.  And sheep ALWAYS get sheered, don't they?

Get ready for the sheering to begin.  And get ready for the foreclosures.

For me?  This is FREAKING AWESOME because of the loans I can get and because of the windfall of foreclosures in the years to come.  For idiots?  It will be a replay of 2006, 2008, 2008, 2009, and 2010 for them.  They'll get suckered into the EXACT same scenario they just got out of because, for many of them, they've had 10 years between now and their last foreclosure (or they're pretty close) so...get into another stupid loan, why don't they?!

As I'm going on and on about all of this, the f*** head sitting at the table next to me leans over and tells me I have no idea what I'm talking about.  Then goes on and on with his own mis-matched no-sense-making tirade about Donald Trump and the economy.  I looked at him like he lost his mind then asked... "What do you do for a living?"  He hesitated, then said...

"I deliver pizzas."

I burst into laughter, probably much more exaggerated than anticipated just to make a point.  In other words, What the hell do you know about the opportunities in any economy when you deliver pizzas for somebody else's company?

Nothing.  Somebody like that knows not a freaking thing.

Then I ignored him as if he wasn't there...as if he never existed which, perhaps, was quite possibly the icing on the cake as he got redder and madder by me continuing my conversation with MY party at MY table ABOUT him and his stupidity.

None of us know everything.  Believe me, there is A LOT I want to learn about so many more things in my lifetime.  But guess what?  When I'm in "learning mode" because of areas in which I'm inferior, I shut the hell up and I LISTEN to those who know shit.  Period.  I don't step in (especially uninvited) and start spewing the life and times about why I'm so smart or why I know it all.  I LISTEN.  I PAY ATTENTION.  I LEARN STUFF.  Otherwise you can never improve.

Now, does that mean I'm right about the upcoming trials and tribulations of the economy, especially with the housing market?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  I've already told you about the upcoming recession that we were destined to hit because of the economic cycles and historic charts pointing us in that direction.  And now there are other things I'm uncovering to indicate that things just may be worse than anticipated.

Regardless, the recession is coming "hard" or "soft," there is MONEY TO BE MADE if you know how to do it, and you MUST be prepared for it.  As I learned throughout this year, living in denial about something doesn't make it go away.  So, instead, EMBRACE it and learn how to make money with it.  Fighting with people over politics or acting like a know-it-all in a restaurant -- especially if your "career" is that of something like a pizza delivery dude -- is NOT a great way to prepare when you can be learning from those who have done, are doing, and will continue to do things that will make us MASSIVE amounts of money.

Trust me...if I were sitting at a table next to Warren Buffett, under NO circumstances would I begin to argue with the guy about anything even if I disagreed with every word that came out of his mouth.  Instead I would be LISTENING and quite possibly hitting the RECORD button on my phone to make sure I don't miss anything, especially when making future predictions about the economy.  And ESPECIALLY if he was talking about HOW to make money in the economy.  I'd so much as bite my tongue off before I'd let myself utter a single word before I heard him out.

But that's me.  And that's the difference between those who are successful and those who want to walk about as a know-it-all whose life is a living pity-party.  Apparently arguing gives these people a sense of importance because their lifestyle and career choices certainly don't.  Don't choose to be one of THOSE people, okay?  Open your ears.  Listen.  Learn.  Implement.

And get very rich in the process!

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See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main

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I've made some changes from what I originally thought I'd be doing to what it looks like I'll actually be doing in 2017.

These changes are, of course, thanks to our recession (and other reasons, explained in a minute).  As with all smart business people, I have to be flexible with the times.  I suggest you do the same.

After my Real Estate Cash Flow Underground Secret Event in February 2017 (CLICK HERE to register if you haven't already to still get the early-bird pricing and $100 hold-deposit option), I'll be focusing solely and exclusively on AGGRESSIVE Income Strategies for the remainder of the year.

And that's pretty weird considering that your upcoming opportunities are going to be in Passive Income Strategies.  Don't you think?

Well, there's a distinct reason for this.  First of all, everything you'll need to know for investing in Passive Income Strategies WILL be covered in great detail during the Real Estate Cash Flow Underground Secret Event.  They are also covered in my newly released Apartment Riches Modules (which you can STILL get for a pre-order discount INCLUDING my last chance DIRECT investor-partner access; CLICK HERE to get them now!).  So, between the seminar and the modules, you won't need anything else for Passive Income Strategies...probably until 2019.  Yep, you'll be covered.  Completely and thoroughly.

That brings us BACK to Aggressive Income Strategies.  This is two-fold and DOES include real estate, believe it or not.  (I'll bet you thought it was only about online money-making stuff.  But it's not.) Starting the beginning of March 2017 and throughout the entire year of 2017, we'll be covering ONLY Aggressive Income Strategies including BOTH real estate AND non-real estate.

And I can't wait!  This is the stuff I THRIVE off of because this is the stuff that can make the most money when you play your cards right.

And yes, this means we'll be doing more Money Funnel Strategies.  I have a brand new mentorship planned for the spring for the Money Funnel that will include taking already-done clones and will focus almost exclusively on marketing those funnels on Facebook, Adwords, Yahoo! and even offline.  Remember, the key to making money with a Money Funnel is the marketing.  And THAT is the component we'll be covering in my cutting-edge Money Funnel Mentorship coming up in the spring.

I'd also like to do a 3-day one-on-one in-house training sometime in the spring as well for Money Funnel Strategies just because some (and in some respects, many) of these business-building aspects have CHANGED.

One of these huge changes came down to my mailing list broker -- Macromark Inc. -- who I've used since the 1990s.  They are one of the largest mailing list brokerages houses in the country...and they were just raided by the feds a couple of months ago.  My broker told me all about it: how 25 federal agents came swooping in and demanding all of these files, making everyone stay into the wee hours of the morning as each person from the lowest secretary to the CEO were individually questioned at great length.

And I knew something was wrong even before that.  Call it my "Spidey" senses...but they lost their merchant account in August or September.  They quite suddenly sent everyone an email saying that they don't accept credit cards anymore for payment on rented lists.  Only checks and wire transfers were to be accepted from that point on.  No future date.  No notice.  Just "effective immediately."  This started the alarm bells for me.

I stopped mailing in the late spring.  I had issues with Macromark getting watered down lists and old names.  So, I just stopped mailing altogether while preparing to get names from other much larger "compiling" bureaus like NextMark or Exact Data for my new mailing projects for my skin care business.  Because something smelled rotten in the Macromark camp.

Then the raid came.  I still didn't know about it.  But the next day I had someone (other than my regular broker) email me to demand my current mailing piece.  I told them to pound sand because I didn't have a CURRENT piece due to my stopping my mailings earlier in the year.  Come to find out that they were just collecting people's mailing pieces...for the feds.

Macromark is on the verge of bankruptcy now.  My broker quit the same week of the fed raid.  Others walked out as well.  But the worst part is that none of their clients want to do business with them anymore.  They're making it harder to get approval on mailing lists and probably sending everybody's pieces (which many are already borderline legal) to the FBI.  Mailing list orders are taking forever to get approved and sent out...if they're approved at all.  For mailers, it's just much easier to use somebody else and not deal with the hassle and federal government exposure by using Macromark anymore.

This is kind of a game-changer, folks.  How so?  Well, I already knew (since the summer) that mailing on business opportunity types of lists wasn't a good idea anymore.  If you want to make money in "mail order" then the money is in what they call the "health" lists where companies are selling all kinds of supplements, health products, and even health-related newsletters, courses, and books.  This is where you make money in "mail order" these days, especially if you want to negate legal risk.  Yes, you can make money with business opportunity lists, especially with those that are about stock trading but...is it worth the legal risk?  Is it worth being singled out by the FBI?  Because after all, if they want to find one teeny-weeny little thing that they don't like about your company, they will.  And they do.  It's best not to bother with taking those types of risks when there's a lot of money to be made elsewhere in other types of product lines.

This is what I want the focal point of 2017 to be: focusing on Aggressive Income Strategies with online and offline business strategies.

Why?

Because it's fairly easy to invest in real estate once you have the money to do it.  And getting the money using Aggressive Income Strategies is really the way to go.  It's easy to do if you can follow instructions.  It's extremely gratifying to start making thousands of dollars a week.  Then more.  Then even more.  Until you go from dead broke to building your first house...just in a matter of months.

This has happened for me, many times over.  This has happened for many of my students as well.  And I love seeing that type of financial transformation.  As a teacher, nothing excites me more than seeing people achieve success in ways that before weren't possible because they didn't have the right success blueprint.

So, let's just say that 2017 is gearing up to be a great year, especially for those of you interested in my most successful, profitable, and mind-blowing Aggressive Income Strategies.

For now, though, you have one last chance to be a part of my Passive Income Strategies.  This is with my newly released Apartment Riches Modules (CLICK HERE) and my Detroit Real Estate Underground Secret Event (CLICK HERE).  This is ALL I'll be doing for Passive Income Real Estate Strategies for a good long while...so take advantage while you can.

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main

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How to Overcome Fear to Experience Great Power...All in Under One Minute!

We all fall for it.  The well-meaning unsolicited "advice" we get to pretend we're listening to.  Until it gets too ridiculous to entertain, that is.

As it was in my case.

I mentioned recently that my dad kind of moved into my house.  He sort of showed up at my doorstep with a suitcase and I couldn't very well tell him to beat it (even though I wanted to). He's going through some very unique challenges with his wife (who I refuse to call my step-mother).  She's very ill and in recent months, because of the drastic changes in her medications, has become violent.  So he had to leave or risk having an ice pick plummeted into his skull in the middle of the night.  Hence, on my doorstep he ended up.

My dad and I never really had a decent relationship.  He was non-existent through most of my adult life.  I always got the sense (probably starting with my mother telling me from childhood that my dad never wanted kids) that I was more of an inconvenience being around so I made myself scarce.  This is why we barely ever saw one another until recently when he, of course, had no other choice but to find a safe haven from the cataclysmic destruction of his marriage.

So...one of the things I have to deal with now is his self-loathing "I don't know what to do" (which sucks) and different pieces of "advice" he wants to throw out there (which also sucks).  And I can't even choose which sucks more.

Especially after he gave me a bit of advice that caused me to completely come unhinged.  It was the first (of several) episodes where I found myself actually yelling at him.

And this piece of well-meaning "advice" he gave me that was the cause of my becoming unhinged?

He told me to never express how I felt about religion or politics in the business world to anyone, especially my customers and clients.  And that if anyone ever said anything about religion or politics, I should just go along in agreement with everything they had to say about it.  Really?

Even worse (yes, it keeps going), he told me that it was his dad who gave him this bit of advice, stemming from when my dad was about 5 years old and a local restaurant owner was telling a patron that he goes to the same church his customer goes to, knowing damn well that it was a lie.  His dad explained that it was "good business" to just go along with everything your customers tell you, even lying about important things like religion, because it's all about just getting their money and nothing else.  Just agree and take their money was the motto of the day.

WTF?

First of all, neither does my dad have a business (anymore) nor did his dad have a business (ever).  And yet here we have 2 people (one of which is dead) dispensing business advice that (a) is completely negligent of any honesty and ethics, (b) isn't part of today's business world here in 2016, and (c) from people who have never had a massively successful business...or any business at all.

I'm NOT here to "say anything" just to "take people's money," as was apparently my grandfather's business advice.  For someone to stand for everything and say anything and do anything just to get on a customer's good side...is to stand for nothing at all.  To agree with everything means you represent nothing.  You must stand for something, especially in this day and age, otherwise people will lose respect for you.  And you'll also lose respect for yourself as well.

But where did all of this stem from?

It was my emails about certain political subjects around the time of the election that set my dad off.  Apparently I was supposed to "agree" with everyone.  Trump?  Fantastic choice for president.  Clinton?  Fantastic choice as well.  No matter what anyone was to say, I apparently was supposed to go along with it.  Same with religion, I suppose.  Am I Catholic?  Sure. Christian? Yep, that too.  Buddhist?  Of course!

Come on!

One of my mentors had some pretty heavy things to say about his political choice during this recent election.  And guess what?  I didn't agree with him AT ALL.  In fact, I don't think it's possible for us to be further divided on this topic.  But...being the smart common-sense kind of gal that I am, I realize that his political beliefs have nothing to do with the things I'm learning from him in the capacity of marketing and business success.  Nothing at all.  He can believe with 1000% conviction that the moon is made of cheese.  So freaking what if he does? And if I happen to disagree with this "fact" especially having nothing to do with what I'm learning?  Maybe I do.  Again, that's NOT why I'm learning from him.  And only a flim-flam spineless loser would disconnect from someone they're learning a lot from that has a lot to offer their future because they disagree with where they go to church on Sunday or who they voted for on November 8th.

I had to painstakingly explain this to my dad, further explaining that I have a lot of followers who love my no-holds-barred style because I'm honest and about no bullshit.  And they know I'm not going to lie to them.  For the spineless losers who need to be "agreed with" on their political stances and religious preferences at all times, they can go across the aisle to the waiting snake oil salesman who will agree with everything they have to say provided that they whip out their credit cards so they can be sold every load of unusable crap there is on the market which will make them poorer instead of richer.  For people who want to be coddled, agreed with, and pandered to at all times...they've already lost because they'll be hard-up to ever find the "right" person to agree with everything they believe in unless it's someone willing to lie about their beliefs just to take their money.  For anyone who actually believes everyone should agree with everything they believe in...find another planet to live on because you're in the wrong place.

Part of the beauty in all of us is that we're all different.  We all have different perspectives and opinions.  We all have gone through different things which result in different likes and dislikes.  And that should be excellent because it allows us to have diversity within our societies.  How boring would it be if we were all exactly alike thinking all of the exact same things and formulating all of the exact opinions and beliefs?  It's certainly NOT a place I'd want to live or be part of.

Here's something else I'm not going to bullshit you about.

Real estate investing.  Our 2017 recession coming up.  And how there are several things of economic uncertainty that we are about to face but...if you know how to play your cards right, you'll make out like a bandit.

Truth be told, I made the vast majority of my money in recent real estate years between 2008 and 2010.  Then it began to taper down after about the middle of 2011.  It's been slowing down steadily since to the point of near-nonexistence in the past 2 years.  You see, opportunities in a good economy aren't that great when it comes to getting deals on real estate.  Foreclosures cease to exist.  Negotiating a lower price becomes impossible.  And everybody (sellers) want top dollar for their properties.

This sucks when you want to make money as a real estate investor.

But right now we're about to enter into a period where you can get some of those 2008 through 2010 deals again and you need to be prepared for it.  No, you're not going to start investing yet.  But what you WILL be doing is understanding how to do it front to back, step by step, from A to Z so that you can hit the ground running in a few months when the market starts to fall apart.

This is what I have for you from my first and only Apartment Riches Mentorship Group modules.  I just completed an 8-week online mentorship group where we did 8 trainings (on video) that run between 60 and 90 minutes.  After each training, there is something called an Action Sheet where you'll be working through each of the items that were discussed in the training that are on your Action Sheet list.  Before you are allowed to watch the next video in the series, you MUST complete the Action Sheet for that video.

And this goes on for 8 solid weeks.  Of course, you can work the entire process in half the time...or double the time.  Take your time.  Learn the materials well.  Watch the training videos over and over again until you get it.  You have about 3 months to really learn and understand this stuff.  And if you do, it'll be well worth it to help you succeed as a profitable cash flowing investor for multi-family and residential-commercial apartment building properties.

But even more powerful: you'll be trained on how to create a very simple business plan that my investors can approve and do a partnership with you on.  (Many of my students don't understand how to create these business plans yet you will be trained on exactly what to do.)

Plus, you'll have the LAST ACCESS to my investor partner who, so far, has done partnerships on 32 deals with students since this past August.  Yes, 32...and counting!  But I was told that I'm no longer allowed to have anymore students join this special partnership arrangement after November 30th.  So...this is it!  This is the LAST TIME to join this exclusive direct partnership opportunity because it cannot be and will not be offered ever again.  And you'll get it when you get the Apartment Riches Modules.

CLICK HERE to check it out now.  Get all of the Apartment Riches Mentorship Modules PLUS the Direct Partnership.  This is the last opportunity for this.  Seriously.  If you haven't been able to participate in the partnership opportunity by now, this is it for good!

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

​​​​​​​Monica Main

Over the summer I did quite a powerful 8-week mentorship group on my Distribution Profit Aggressive Income Business Model. This is, by far, the most AGGRESSIVE form of income I teach.

But as stated before...this is NOT for everybody.  In fact, it's probably not for most of you.

So, what IS the Distribution Profit Business Model exactly?

It's for those of you who want to start a product line -- which can be anything from clothing to health supplements to food products and/or snacks -- and to get that product line out to retailers and wholesalers nationwide.  Ultimately you'll see your product on store shelves nationwide and, quite possibly in a few years, worldwide.

This is where the BIG money comes in.  This is when you can get that huge mansion overlooking the ocean.  This is when you can get obscenely filthy rich.

Now, the reason this opportunity is NOT for everyone is for 2 reasons:

1)  It takes work.  This isn't a business plan for someone who is lazy and wants to put in minimal hours while expecting a business to grow by itself to multi-million-dollar proportions.  You have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and get your business off the ground and ultimately soaring high into the million-dollar plus income range.

2)  You have to get the RIGHT product from the beginning.  Of course, in the Distribution Profit Mentorship Modules, I show you in GREAT DETAIL how to find the best, most marketable, and profitable products but you MUST get this right if you plan on getting into that multi-million-dollar profit threshold.

This is BEYOND my profitable home-based money funnel stuff.  Sure, you can (and should) start your business really small but it will grow into a huge business within a short time, especially following my well laid out plan including choosing the right product from the start.  You'll learn from the pitfalls that I had gone through to get you from A to Z with the least resistance possible.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I did an 8-week mentorship group for the Distribution Profit Business and now these modules are available to you.  The cool thing about this is that you can do the mentorship group in half the time if you wish.  Or you can take your time with it and spread it out slowly through a 12- to 18-week time frame.  It's up to you how fast or slow you want to work through these modules.

I will warn you, though.  Each video training (which was recorded from a live webinar) is about 60 to 90 minutes long EACH ONE.  So, I don't really recommend that you binge watch all 8 training videos in one day.  This is because after watching each training video in chronological order, you will need to work through the items on the accompanying Action Sheet BEFORE advancing to the next video otherwise you won't get the tasks done that are needed to build your business.

CLICK HERE to see this deal including listening to a power-packed audio seminar explaining exactly who this opportunity is tailored for.

Remember, the deal ends TODAY so...it's now or never on this one.

See you at the top!

Your mentor,

Monica Main