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This month for our Building Blocks Success Series, we interviewed Karen Schaefer, the nation's leading exit strategy expert, the founder of Simple Appeal and APSD (the Association of Property Scene Designer) and... a real estate investor.In this Building Blocks interview, we speak with Karen about how she went from being $100,000 in debt to selling over $6,000,000 of real estate.
Learn the secrets she used to jump start her staging and design business and learn how she uses time management to keep all her businesses running like clockwork.
Excerpt:
ForeclosuresMass Members: The audio CD and transcript of this interview is included for free as part of your membership and is on it's way to you in the mail this week.
Non-Members: You can visit our online shop and order your copy of this Building Blocks interview with Karen Schaefer.
I got into real estate investing like many people do because, I was a flat broke or below flat broke and didn't really have too many options. And one day somebody invited my husband Pete and I to a motivational seminar and there was a guy there talking about stocks. And that's one thing Pete kept looking at. And he said, "You know we should do that because I think it would really help us out of our lousy situation." And I said, "Are you serious?" Because we, at that point, Sheila, it was the early 2000's and he had lost a lot of money in the stock market.Karen goes on to discuss:
And he said, "No, no, I just didn't know how to do it." And I said, "Okay honey. Well, go give it a try." And Pete and I had just been married so I thought to myself, "Okay, I'm going to be really supportive." Now, I'd say, "No way honey!" No, I'm just joking. So he tried that and again it still didn't work out well for us but there was another guy talking about real estate. And I thought, "You know what? I'm going to give that a try, because I don't have anything to lose." We had $100,000.00 of credit card debt and no way out because both of our businesses were taking a nose dive...
- Her first real estate deal and how she did it
- How she moved out of her apartment into her first home
- How she pocketed $127,000 on her second deal
- How Karen got her hubby Pete on board with real estate, too
- How she works with Pete both in and on their business
- How she turned over $6,000,000 in real estate since starting
- What she does for marketing
- What changes she made to adapt to the market
ForeclosuresMass Members: The audio CD and transcript of this interview is included for free as part of your membership and is on it's way to you in the mail this week.
Non-Members: You can visit our online shop and order your copy of this Building Blocks interview with Karen Schaefer.
We conduct a new Building Blocks interview each month and send out an Audio CD and Transcript of the interview to our members. To find out more about membership, visit: http://www.ForeclosuresMass.com/account/
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