Lend to Live

Real estate investing can often times seem very esoteric, hard to understand and like you are drinking from a fire hose when you are first getting started. That is not the case with this book. It is packed full of practical and instructional knowledge on an otherwise daunting topic. I have known and worked with Alex for a past few years and she has done an excellent job culminating personal and professional experience into this book. You will not find a better one-stop-shop for your Private Lending needs and I am excited to put the lessons and concepts into practice in my business and life.

THIS is what you've been missing in the real estate industry. Everyone talks about no money down strategies, but they never talk about being the person who IS the private lender. It's a whole different learning curve and one that I'm loving, especially with this book! Alex and Beth really laid out the info with everything you need to become a bank. There are three whole chapters on underwriting which is super helpful for newbies.

I attended the talk on private money lending at BP Con and just listening to that talk I realized that my "home" in real estate was going to be lending. I went to the short term rental talk, and the multifamily talk but they just didn't move me to want to learn more. Both sounded like way too much work. I'm a mom of four kids, all of them in soccer, and the last thing I needed was a guest complaining the mattresses were too hard. I bought the book at the conference in paperback, and also bought the e-book to read on my kindle on the go. Once I started it I couldn't stop! I'm almost through it now, and this stuff is pretty amazing! It's a whole side of real estate I didn't know existed, but also kinda knew it was there because obviously you have to borrower money to buy houses. As a mom, I feel like I could fit this in, and I will definitely be joining these ladies group online. I'm so happy I decided to go to the private lending talk! For anyone wanting to learn more about this style of investing, you can't beat this book. Just follow the path they laid out, start talking to people like they mention, and you will be off and running quickly. I'm looking forward to doing my first private loan next month!

Lend to Live

I was fortunate enough to talk to Alex a few weeks ago and she mentioned this book! I downloaded it to listen to it while I drove around town, and by the end of the day I had to turn it off. I spent the entire day running around to my various rentals, I was halfway through her book, I called her, and told her I was going to buy the actual book, and I'm not buying anymore rentals. I'm ashamed to admit I'm getting up there in age, and just getting too old for rentals and the nonsense they cause. I have a ton of equity in them, and I was thinking of selling them, but worried about income because I am officially retired now and SS doesn't cover much. I could not stop reading the book! I have to go back and take notes now though. No one is talking about this, and I don't know why. Real estate places so much emphasis on getting loans, but does blissfully little to tell us how to do those loans. I feel so ignorant reading this book because it opened up a whole world that was there the entire time. the entire time! I've never read another private lending book so I can't comment on how it stacks up to those, but it would be darn hard to surpass what these ladies have done. If you were on the fence, just get the book. What you learn in this book can save you thousands and thousands of dollars, $24.99 was a cheap ticket to learn this stuff, trust me. I paid for the book twice! The authors did a wonderful job with their explanations, and I hope my first loan will be happening shortly.