Who are these people – and why are they smiling???
Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki and his lovely wife Kim Kiyosaki (author of Rich Woman), plus several of their Rich Dad Advisors® are all part of The Real Estate Guys™ 10th annual Investor Summit at Sea™.
And while the idea of spending an ENTIRE WEEK at a conference may seem a little boring, nearly seven of the eight days take place aboard a cruise ship sailing the Caribbean and visiting four beautiful ports. That’s the complete opposite of boring.
Wow! Fun in the sun and financial education too. No wonder Robert and Kim are smiling. And when you join us, you’ll be smiling too!
After all, we already have people coming from ten different countries. Just imagine the caliber of people you’ll meet, the quality of conversations you’ll enjoy, and all the things you’ll learn! Plus we have an all star faculty – all of whom have committed not only to teach,, but to hang out with you at our private parties, shore excursions, round table discussions and nightly shipboard meals. Really, is there ANY other place you can go to get this level of education, access and entertainment?
Here’s a special message from Robert Kiyosaki:
And this special message from Robert and Kim is for couples:
This Investor Summit at Sea™ is a VERY RARE opportunity for you to learn from and get to know the Kiyosakis, their Rich Dad Advisors and, of course, The Real Estate Guys™ and the rest of our amazing Summit faculty – all aboard the spectacular Carnival Dream.
So make your plans NOW to be on board March 30th – April 7th, 2012. Space is limited and your reservation must be secured many weeks in advance. If you wait too long, the event may sell out. Don’t miss the boat!!! For all the the details, click here now.
4/17/11: Live from our 9th Annual Investor Summit at Sea!
For the ninth straight year, The Real Estate Guys™ and an energized group of committed real estate investors boarded a cruise ship for a week of powerful education, networking and fun. And as is our tradition, while on board we recorded a radio show with a live studio audience.
We call this annual event our Investor Summit at Sea™ because Summit means “the highest point of attainment or aspiration: the summit of one’s ambition; the highest state or degree”.
More than education, the Summit is about relationships, enthusiasm, focus and family. Because of the unique environment created on a cruise ship, faculty and students often bring their families. It’s proven to be a great opportunity to unite families around their pursuit of financial independence and prosperity.
Reflecting on their Summit experience from the Mad Hatter’s Lounge on the Carnival Miracle:
- Your host, Robert Helms
- Co-host, Russell Gray
- The Godfather of Real Estate, Bob Helms
- Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Real Estate Advisors, Ken McElroy and Wayne Palmer
- International Real Estate Developer, Beth Clifford
- Attorney, Mauricio Rauld
- Real estate investor, developer and author, David Campbell
- Financial strategist, Patrick Donohoe
After one week of focused education, networking and outrageous fun, each faculty member share their most important takeaways. Over two-thirds of the 2011 attendees, including the complete faculty and their families immediately signed up to come back in 2012 to celebrate our 10th annual Investor Summit at Sea™. It’s hard to describe the Summit experience, as several surveys described the event as “life changing”, “incredible”, “awesome” and “over the top”.
How can a simple real estate investment conference have such a powerful impact? Tune in as our prestigious faculty tries to distrill their experience into a one hour radio show – and consider the power of just one great idea, relationship or commitment.
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Secrets of Successful Syndication
Tired of waiting for someone else to create a job for you or give you a raise? Take control of your own future by discovering how to make big money doing big deals through real estate syndication.
Syndication is simply putting together a group of investors and use the combined resources to take advantage of more and bigger opportunities for everyone’s benefit. And when you’ve fully deployed your own cash and credit, syndication is a great way to keep going.
Now is one of the greatest times we’ve seen to become a real estate syndicator. Distressed properties and notes are abundant. Assets can be purchased for pennies on the dollar. Best of all, you’re not preying upon the unfortunate. You’re helping clean up a big mess and playing a vital role in revitalizing the economy.
With all the liquidity being pumped into the economy, there’s still time to take advantage of low interest rates. Longer term, many economists expect inflation – which means rising asset values (equity!), rising rents and rising interest rates. But inflation hasn’t hit real estate yet, so there’s a window of opportunity to snap up deals.
We could go on and on about why the next 2-3 years look to be among the best ever to be a buyer. But that’s not the point of this article and we’ve discussed it many times on the broadcast.
The real point is that syndication is a great opportunity for sharp, hardworking people to become real estate entrepreneurs. In his new book, The Sleeping Giant, best selling author and Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Advisor Ken McElroy says a new American Dream is upon us: the age of the entrepreneur. Gone are the days of working four decades for the same company and retiring on a comfortable pension. And the last time we looked, Social Security isn’t looking very secure. So you need a good paying job now AND a way to build up wealth over the the long term.
If you’re unemployed, under-employed or concerned about the future of your job or company, then you might want to give serious consideration to starting your own business. And while there are many different businesses to choose from, in most all cases you’ll need to organize capital to get started. For the average Joe, that means using up his life’s savings, home equity and all his available credit card lines – literally betting the farm on the success of the business. That’s one way to go.
On the other hand, wouldn’t it be better if you were or raise some private investor money where neither you nor any of your investors are ruined if things don’t go as planned? Shared risk and shared reward. That’s all a syndication is.
Of course, that begs the question: what kind of a business?
Obviously, we like real estate – and for many reasons. First, it’s everywhere and not overly complicated – at least compared to starting a bio-tech firm or a software company. That makes it possible for you to get up to speed and run the business effectively pretty quickly. But it’s also a business that your investors should be able to understand and get excited about without needing Ph.D.’s.
Most people can see there are bargains galore in real estate right now, but because the dollars are big they can’t take advantage of them…by themselves. They don’t have enough money, time, knowledge or connections. That’s why so many people buy mutual funds instead of picking their own stocks. They are effectively hiring a fund manager to do the hard work of investing.
When you organize a real estate syndication, your investors are essentially hiring you to buy, manage and sell the investments – just like a mutual fund manager. Except instead of investing in stocks, you’re investing in real estate or notes. Now before you freak out, remember that you’ve probably already bought or sold a property, rented a property, gotten a loan or otherwise been involved in some real estate transactions. So you already have some experience. And if you’re a real estate agent, loan officer, appraiser, contractor or someone who deals with the business of real estate on a daily basis, you’re way ahead of the curve. Remember, most mutual fund managers don’t have to know how to run the companies they invest in, they just have to know how to recognize good business models and managers.
Of course, in the spirit of full disclosure, if syndication were THAT easy, then everyone would be doing it, right? True. However, we bet there are many very capable people out there who would be very successful syndicators, but it never occurred to them they could do it. And like any manager, it’s a huge responsibility to be in charge of other people’s assets. Yet, many people do a fine job for their employers every day, but just don’t think of it as asset management. Yet if you’re a manager of any kind, you’re responsible for someone else’s assets - their money, their customers, their reputation, their property, their information – on a daily basis. If you do a good job there, the odds are good you will be successful in real estate – which is quite possibly a lot less complicated than your current day job.
Still, it’s important to be properly trained. And the task of organizing an investment syndication is not one to be taken up lightly. There are laws to follow and lots of details to be aware of. Again, if it was brain dead easy, than everyone would be doing it.
So where can you go to learn the secrets of successful syndication? You can and should read books, take classes, and get around people who are doing it. Much of which you can figure out on your own if you have the time and motivation. But if the gap between where you are and where you want to be looks to big to jump on your own, we have something for you!
We’ve imposed upon our outstanding Investor Summit at Sea™ Faculty, which includes Ken McElroy and fellow Rich Dad Advisor Wayne Palmer (a very successful syndicator in his own right), plus international real estate developer Beth Clifford and attorney Mauricio Rauld, to conduct an all day training called The Secrets of Successful Syndication Seminar on April 3rd in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (you’ve been looking for a great reason to visit beautiful South Florida, right?).
Discover what it takes to organize and operate a real estate syndication business, where you can go from zero to a full time income (even part time!) in six months or less.
For more information and to enroll on-line, click here now.
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1/16/11: The Age of the Entrepreneur – Creating a Future and Not a Job with Ken McElroy
One of our favorite quotes comes from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
Of course, a statement like that carries even more weight because the person saying it is highly qualified to have an opinion worth listening to.
So when we think about wanting to be great real estate investors, we like to listen to people who are highly qualified to tell us where they think “the opportunity puck” is going to be. We’re very fortunate to have access to just such a person.
Do YOU want to hear what he has to say? We thought so!
Skating across the icy landscape of a jobless economic recovery discussing where the opportunity puck is going to be:
- The Center of Attention, Host Robert Helms
- Your On the Right Wing Co-Host, Russell Gray
- Special Guest, Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Real Estate Advisor, Ken McElroy,
In case you don’t know, Ken is a self-made millionaire real estate entrepreneur. He started out as a property manager, began investing, and then expanded by syndicating big deals. While the rest of the world was crying about the how “bad” the real estate market was over the last two years, Ken was out acquiring over $300 million of properties – mostly apartment buildings.
In addition to being a successful businessman and prolific investor, Ken is the Real Estate Advisor to Robert Kiyosaki, the author of mega-best seller Rich Dad Poor Dad. Ken is also a best selling author himself. His latest book, The Sleeping Giant, was just recently released.
But what we’ve learned about Ken is that in addition to all of the above (and being a super nice guy!), he is a very strategic thinker. As a big time apartment investor, he pays close attention to the jobs market. He spends a lot of time thinking about where and why jobs are being created (or not) because the need and ability to pay for housing is directly tied to jobs.
So during a phone call to discuss our upcoming Summit at Sea™ (shameless plug) where Ken will join fellow Rich Dad Advisor Wayne Palmer as special guest faculty, Ken said he thinks he knows where the jobs puck is going. Well, THAT certainly piqued our interest, so we invited him to share his ideas with our radio audience, which is the basis for this episode.
Then, the conversation transitioned into a discussion of what someone should be doing TODAY to be ready for what’s coming tomorrow. That led to a decision to do a special conference call with both Ken and Wayne, which we called our 2011 Conference Call to Action: Designing Your BEST YEAR EVER – Developing 20/20 Hindsight in 2011. We actually recorded and released the conference call first because we didn’t want to wait for the next radio show broadcast to get the information out.
So rather than steal any of the thunder from what Ken says in this episode, just listen in and you can hear from Ken directly. Meanwhile, we had such a great response to the conference call, we set it up a recording you can play on demand. If you’re interested in hearing it (if it’s still available by the time you read this), click here to access the blog post about the call. If you miss it and want to hear what Ken and Wayne have to say about how to succeed in real estate over the next 10 years, you’ll just have to spend the week with them on the 9th Annual Summit at Sea™ (yet another shameless plug!).
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Attorney Garrett Sutton joins Summit faculty
The Real Estate Guys are proud to announce that Attorney Garrett Sutton will be a special guest teacher on their 8th Annual Investor Summit at Sea April 9-17, 2010.
Garrett Sutton is one one of Robert Kiyosaki’s original Rich Dad Advisors and has spoken all over the world on the topic of partnership formation and asset protection for investors. He is a best selling author and has over 25 years experience practicing law with offices in Wyoming, Nevada and California. Garrett has been a guest on both The Real Estate Guys radio and TV shows, in addition to being featured in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Many people believe 2010 will be a great year for real estate acquisition. If you see more opportunity than you have money, then setting up investing partnerships could be your formula for success. But when you are investing other people’s money, having a strong understanding of the legal requirements is critical. At this year’s Summit, Garrett will be teaching on what you need to to know to do investing partnerships right.
Also, in today’s lawsuit prone society, it’s important to have an asset protection structure in place and know how to use it properly. What’s the point in earning a fortune only to lose it all in a frivolous law suit? Garrett will explain entity structuring to maximize protection and minimize costs.
Best of all, Garrett will be on board the cruise ship with us for 8 days and 7 nights, so attendees will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Take advantage of this RARE OPPORTUNITY to spend time with Garrett Sutton and the rest of The Real Estate Guys Summit at Sea faculty. Sign up today!
Ken McElroy to Cruise with The Real Estate Guys!
We are STOKED to announce that highly successful real estate entrepreneur, best selling author and Rich Dad Advisor Ken McElroy has agreed to teach on The Real Estate Guys 8th Annual Real Estate Investor Summit at Sea!
In case you don’t know, Ken McElroy started out as a property manager for other property owners. He cut his teeth (and more!) in the real world dealing with tenants, toilets and troubles on behalf of his customers. But as he became more successful, he invested in properties himself. When he ran out of his own money and wanted to do bigger deals, he teamed up with partners and formed syndications. Along the way, he met Robert and Kim Kiyosaki, who made him one of their most trusted advisors. Today, Ken has over 8,000 units under management and is known worldwide through his writings, presentations and close association with the Rich Dad company.
Over the years, The Real Estate Guys have been very fortunate to share just a small portion of Ken’s wealth of real estate wisdom with our listeners through his appearances on our show. But that was only one hour at a time. Now, Ken has agreed to join us for 8 DAYS and 7 NIGHTS as we sail to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel! Imagine being able to talk real estate over breakfast, lunch, dinner or cocktails with Ken McElroy! Now, you don’t have to imagine. You can make it happen by signing up today!
This is a VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY for a LIMITED number of people to spend a week with Ken McElroy on The Real Estate Guys 8th Annual Investor Summit at Sea. Don’t miss the boat because you may never get another opportunity like this!
