84: Getting Started with Creative Finance and Designing Your Ideal Lifestyle With Chad Carson
Today on the BiggerPockets Podcast we sit with Chad Carson, a full time real estate investor from Clemson, South Carolina. Chad brings expertise in a TON of areas including everything from fix-and-flips to creative finance, property management to buy-and-hold.
This show explores how to use real estate as a means to design the lifestyle you really want.
There are a ton of tips and tricks in this one, so dive in!
In This Show We Cover…
- How to get started straight out of college
- The benefit of having a few key buyers vs. a buyers list
- The key is sincerity, hunger and enthusiasm
- Getting your real estate license as an investor
- How to prepare yourself for future-changing markets
- The key to networking with financial partners
- Direct mail tips and strategies
- Lifestyle design through real estate
- The importance of the “why” behind your business
- 50/50 partnerships
- Property managing your own portfolio
- Creative finance strategies
- Self-Directed IRA’s
- Using court records to look up potential tenants
- An awesome example of an elevator pitch
- The importance of protecting your lenders
- And a whole lot more!
Links Mentioned in The Show:
- The BiggerPockets Member Blogs
- See who is looking at YOUR profile
- BiggerPockets Pro Memberships
- Tenant Screening: The Ultimate Guide
Books Mentioned in the Show:
- Building Wealth One House at a Time: Making it Big on Little Deals , by John Schaub
- The Warren Buffet Way, by Robert G. Hagstrom
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
Tweetable Topics:
- “Sometimes growing big brings a price you might not need to pay for the lifestyle you want…” (Tweet This!)
- “The minute you break people’s trust is the moment you lose everything!” (Tweet This!)
Connect with Chad’s:
- Chad’s BiggerPocket Profile
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