GUEST: SHAUN McCLOSKEY Our special guest today is Shaun McCloskey, who also happens to be the keynote speaker at NoteExpo 2021 coming up the first weekend in November. Shaun is the founder of Leadership Boardroom, which many consider to be the best personal and business improvement environment available. People call him the “coach’s coach.” He specializes not just in achieving business success, but also in balancing that with personal success Read More

GUEST: DERRECK LONG We’re proud to welcome our special guest today, Derreck Long of Quest Trust. He has a strong pedigree when it comes to note investing. His father is Nathan Long and his uncle is Quincy Long, who are two of the industry’s top names in note investing. Derreck is a Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP) based in Houston, Texas. As a member of Quest Trust’s Management and Education Read More

GUEST: BOB REPASS Bob Repass is a 25-year veteran and expert in the seller finance mortgage and distressed asset industry. Over the course of his career, he has purchased over 40,000 performing and non-performing mortgage loans totaling over $2 billion dollars in volume, giving him an unparalleled track record in the industry. Bob currently serves as Managing Director of Colonial Funding Group, where he shares overall responsibility for the management Read More

GUEST: GARY NIE Gary Nie and his wife are both veterinarians, and own their own clinic in Springfield, Missouri. (Believe it or not, he actually does acupuncture on horses.) They’ve been running their own business for 16 years. Even though he owns his own company, he realized he has been trading time for money just like an employee. He only makes money when he’s at the clinic seeing patients. So Read More

GUEST: RYAN + JENNY PENNOCK Ryan and Jenny Pennock came to the real estate industry after closing down their indoor gun range in 2018. That was a low point, but they dove into the real estate business. Ryan did fix & flips, and Jenny became a real estate agent for Keller Williams. They’ve been landlords, wholesalers, and rehabbers, and experienced the headaches that come with those facets of the business. Read More

GUEST: JEFF WATSON Jeff Watson is a powerhouse attorney specializing in the laws and regulations affecting the note business. (He also happens to be Eddie’s personal attorney!) Jeff is one of the most highly sought-after attorneys in the country when it comes to Self-Directed IRA Investing. Jeff spends much of his time teaching & attending events and representing real estate investors in Washington D.C. In today’s NoteSchool TV episode, Jeff Read More

EDDIE SPEED + JOE VARNADORE Eddie Speed is a driving force in the creative financing and non-performing note industry. He has introduced innovative ideas and strategies that have positively impacted the way the industry operates today. He founded NoteSchool 20 years ago (after being in the note industry for 20 years), where he and his team teach thousands of students how to architect deals with terms in their favor. He’s Read More

GUEST: BRIAN LAUCHNER Brian Lauchner purchased his first piece of real estate in 2008. Making the leap out of the financial software industry, he jumped full time into real estate as a wholesaler and rehabber. Gaining traction as a wholesaler, Brian expanded into other strategies including land trades, private lending, rentals, and buying/selling on terms through owner finance. He has seen first-hand how becoming a deal architect is required to get deals done Read More

GUEST: JUSTIN WAGNER This week’s guest is Justin Wagner, who started out as an engineer for an aerospace company after college and then transitioned to full-time real estate investing back in 2005. He started buying houses (on credit cards) to fix & flip, then refinancing them. He took his first NoteSchool class in 2009 to improve his seller financing contracts. He was mesmerized by Eddies rope tricks but was more Read More

GUEST: CHAZ GUINN Chaz Guinn is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Revolve Capital Group. Since 2008, Chaz has built and developed multiple real estate investment firms that specialize in purchasing, managing, and selling 1st lien Non-Performing and Re-Performing mortgage debt, backed by single-family homes. Chaz is known for bringing Institutional and Wall Street investments to main street investors, and has acquired over $1 billion directly from Tier 1 Read More

EDDIE SPEED This week’s guest is Eddie Speed, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer of NoteSchool and Colonial Funding Group. Since 1980, Eddie has introduced many innovative ideas and financial strategies which have allowed thousands of people to achieve financial freedom. After forty-one years in the note business, Eddie is THE guy people look to for guidance in the world of note investing. Eddie knows the importance of relying on hard Read More

GUEST: BOB REPASS This week’s NSTV guest is Bob Repass, Managing Director of Colonial Funding Group and Colonial’s top market analyst. Along with Eddie Speed, he shares overall responsibility for the management of the firm, while focusing on investor relations and regulatory compliance. He’s a 25-year veteran and expert in the seller finance mortgage and distressed asset industry. Over the course of his career, he has purchased over 40,000 performing Read More

GUESTS: GREG PHILLIPS + BEN LEGG When most people think of where to apply creative financing, they think of buying and selling houses. But our guests today are applying creative financing in bold new ways. We’re talking with Ben Legg and Greg Phillips, the owners of Blue Ridge Property. They specialize in a segment of the note business that Eddie calls “Buy by the case and sell by the bottle.” Read More

GUEST: MIKE POWELL Our special guest for today’s interview is Mike Powell. He has truly earned the title of “Ninja” Seller Financier, having done thousands of seller financed transactions during his amazing career. Mike is a creative real estate investor based in San Antonio, Texas. He first began selling commercial real estate in his early twenties to put himself through college at Texas A&M and has been branching out into other Read More

GUEST: BOB REPASS This week’s guest Bob Repass, Managing Director of Colonial Funding Group, shares overall responsibility for the management of the firm, while focusing on investor relations and regulatory compliance. Bob loves to dig into market data to see beyond the surface, and today he shares his findings with you. He’s a 25-year veteran and expert in the seller finance mortgage and distressed asset industry. Over the course of Read More

GUEST: DAREN BLOMQUIST Our guest Daren Blomquist took some heat back around 2005 when his company started reporting on rising foreclosure rates. But he was right then, and he’s still on the leading edge of market forecasting. In today’s episode, he describes the irrational real estate market conditions and shares his wisdom on why prices are rising “like a hockey stick.” He gives his predictions on when inventory will rise Read More

Ben Haught focuses on passive investors who are doctors fed up with landlording. Ben Haught took his first class with NoteSchool in 2008, during the Great Recession. At the time, he was a traditional real estate investor who needed to learn new techniques to grow his business in the midst of very challenging times. He has since become one of the most prolific members of the NoteSchool community in terms Read More

Landlording ain’t what it’s cracked up to be, so lots of landlords are cracking up. They’re going crazy trying to collect rent from delinquent tenants, with more states putting eviction restrictions on landlords. It’s never as easy as what they make it look on HGTV! Fortunately for note investors, these burned out landlords are perfect candidates to become passive investors in your note deals. Our guest on this week’s installment Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/Eddie+Blogs_Real+Estate+on+Fire.mp4 Man, are we seeing some interesting market conditions in residential real estate right now. First there’s an inventory problem. There were only about half as many houses listed for sale in February 2021 as there were in February 2020. That means prices are up and houses don’t stay on the market for long. In really hot markets, houses are getting multiple offers above the asking price. With lower inventory, Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/Eddie+Blogs_Attitude.mp4 Zig Ziglar, the famous author and motivational speaker, said one of the most profound things I’ve ever heard, and it stuck with me ever since the first time I heard it. He said, “Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.” Lots of people have loads of intelligence but don’t have the right attitude. After training thousands of students, I’ve noticed that the ones who succeed the most are Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/Eddie+Blogs_Money+Ball+Book.mp4 There’s no way anyone could have predicted how America’s real estate industry would be impacted by a microscopic virus from the other side of the globe. But the lives we lead today are vastly different than how we lived just one year ago. To many people, the pandemic has been devastating. They’ve lost loved ones, as well their source of income to put food on the table and house Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/Eddie+Blogs_Long+Term+Inexpensive+Capital.mp4   Most real estate investors are familiar with the famous “Three Ts” of real estate. These are the biggest headaches landlords have to deal with: Tenants, taxes, and toilets. But I’d like to propose that these Three Ts add up to the BIG T. What’s the Big T? Tolerance! A landlord can only tolerate so much hassle from tenants, taxes, and toilets until they decide they can’t put up Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/Eddie+Blogs_+Shadow+Inventory.mp4   Back in 2008, the real estate industry went down the tubes, and it stayed there through 2009 and 2010. Prices kept dropping, and things got worse and worse. During those years, I had conversation after conversation with other real estate investors, and the question everybody kept asking was, “How bad is it going to get?” One of the reasons investors were so blindsided by the crash of 2008 Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/a+flat+tire+on+your+race+car.mp4 I’m not a big “motorhead” or racing fanatic. But I’ve been to some races and I’ve even gotten to hang out in the pits where I watched the pit crews in spring into action. It’s amazing to see them change all four tires on a race car faster than I can clean my own windshield! In a similar way, I’ve seen a lot of businesses that struggled the same Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/getting+your+store+front+in+order.mp4 Right now, the market is giving us the rare opportunity to fix our sins. All indicators are telling us that we’re experiencing a crash in slow motion, so NOW is the time to unload all the low-quality assets that are holding you down. Our executive team interacts with the highest level operators in the industry. And we’re all in harmony on the need to act fast to sell any Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/best+alternative+passive+investment%2C+is+notes.mp4 In 2008, the year of the big crash, there were 5 million rental properties foreclosed on. They became the property of the banks and mortgage companies and were called REOs (real estate owned). They were sold primarily to investors rather than consumers who were going to live in the house. Why were these investors who didn’t have real estate backgrounds putting so much money into real estate? It was Read More

The Buyline, September 2020 Thoughts from the Desk of Bob Repass… I started in the seller finance discounted note business in 1990. I started in the seller finance discounted note business in 1990. I left my job as a bank manager and joined Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities who at the time were the largest institutional investor of privately held mortgages. After 2 weeks of training in Spokane, WA, I returned Read More

https://ns-blog-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/10+year+plan.mp4 A friend of mind was recently doing some consulting for my company and he asked me a very important question: “Do you have all your long term goals for your company written out?” I had to admit the honest answer was no. Even though I’m a long term strategic thinker, his question motivated me to add clarity and specifics to my goals for my personal life and for my Read More

Goals For Tomorrow A friend of mind was recently doing some consulting for my company and he asked me a very important question: “Do you have all your long term goals for your company written out?” I had to admit the honest answer was no. Even though I’m a long term strategic thinker, his question motivated me to add clarity and specifics to my goals for my personal life and Read More

The Buyline, August 2020 Thoughts from the Desk of Bob Repass… After much thought, deliberation, and research we have decided that NoteExpo 2020 will now be a fully live virtual event on November 6-7. This was not an easy decision for us to make, but given the current circumstances and continued uncertainties, we feel it is the right decision. Most if not all major conferences across the country such as Read More