The first house
Three-bed ranch · bought for $24,000
Held it as a rental for nineteen months, then sold because I needed the cash. The buyer made twice what I did over the next decade. Lesson one: figure out what you actually want before you sell.
Real estate investing & coaching · nationwide
Close your first deal — anywhere in America — with someone who's done it six hundred times.
I don't sell a $5,000 course — never have. The front door is a free call. When you want more of my time, you pay for it straight up, by the month or by the hour. And when you want a steady stream of leads, we can work together on your marketing.
Three ways to work together
Free when you're starting. Paid when you're serious.
From a single free call to a full partnership on real deals, there's a way in at every level of commitment — and none of them is a course.
I
A Free Call
Free · when you need it
Bring me a deal, a market, or a question. Fifteen honest minutes, an honest read, and no pitch at the end.
- Live read on your specific situation
- An honest read on your numbers
- No cost, no obligation, no pitch
II
Coaching
$1,000/mo · or $200/hour
Real, ongoing access to me — text, phone, email — as the deals come up. Month-to-month, cancel any time. Or grab a single hour when you're stuck.
- Unlimited phone, text & email (monthly)
- Live help underwriting & negotiating
- Month-to-month — cancel anytime
- Or $200/hour, as needed
III
Marketing Partnership
Rent a local lead site · monthly
I've built real-estate marketing sites that rank and pull leads in markets across the country. Rent the one for your market, month-to-month — the leads it brings in are yours. One investor per market.
- A ranked local site, built and maintained for you
- The leads it generates in your market are yours
- Month-to-month · one investor per market
The thing nobody tells new investors is that the first deal is almost never about the deal. It's about whether you can stay calm when six things go wrong, three at the same time, and your contractor stops returning calls. That's what coaching is for. Everything else is a Google search.
— Alan
A coach who still does the work.
I'm not a retired guru selling old war stories. I still buy houses. When you bring me a deal, I'm reading the same numbers I read on my own — the comps, the rehab, the exit, the financing — and telling you what I'd actually do.
That's the difference between a course and a coach. A course is frozen the day it's recorded. A coach is in the market with you, this week, on this deal.
The track record
Forty years. Six hundred houses. Every one a teacher.
A small selection of deals across the years, anonymized for privacy. Each one taught me something I'm still applying — and still passing on — today.
The first disaster
Duplex · bought for $38,000
Foundation work that wasn't disclosed. I spent more on the fix than I paid for the house. Two years to break even. A good inspection is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy.
The pivot
First of 60+ bank-owned acquisitions
When the crash came, most flippers panicked. I leaned in. Banks were dumping inventory at numbers that hadn't existed in twenty years. The next four years were the best of my career.
The first coaching client to close
A flip with Sarah, on a driving-for-dollars find
She found it. I underwrote it. She managed the rehab. We split a $38,000 profit. The most important thing I did was let her make the small calls without checking with me. That's the whole job in one sentence.
The sentimental sale
Three-bed · bought from an estate · $42,000
A family had owned the house 51 years. We kept the front-yard rosebush and told them they could take cuttings any time. Two of them did. This isn't just a business.
Wherever you're investing.
Start with a free call.
Whether you're looking for a real estate investing coach, a wholesaling mentor, or fix and flip coaching, it starts the same way. You don't have to decide anything today. Bring me a deal or a question, we'll spend fifteen minutes on it, and you'll leave with a straight, honest read. If coaching or a partnership makes sense after that, we'll talk. If it doesn't, I'll tell you that too.