I am sitting here thinking way back to the golden year of 2007 when I was a complete newbie to wholesaling and all I had to my name was a couple of bucks and a drive to succeed. I remember how excited I was about this new endeavor I was about to embark on and I remember how I sat down and wrote out my game plan so that I had a step by step guide as to how I was going to make it happen.

In this game plan, I first defined what success meant to me,(to achieve the ability to be financially able to wholesale properties full time), and what steps I was going to take immediately to make this happen (compile a mailing list of probates, absentee owners, pre-foreclosures etc. and send them a letter as well as buying at putting up bandit signs)

So here I am, more than a year later, wholesaling full time. I still send out that same letter and I still put up those same bandit signs and although I have added a few new weapons to the arsenal along the way, for the most part my marketing campaign is a cookie cutter version of just about any other successful wholesaler's in the nation. So why have I found success in an area where so many others have tried and failed? If I could give any one person looking to start as a wholesaler some advice, what would it be? What is the one thing that anyone looking to make it as an investor absolutely MUST do?

Simple, take action. Don't procrastinate another second. Break through the fear that keeps most people in poverty; the fear of failing or making a mistake, and just get out there and do it. If there was one thing I would tell everyone that wants to make it in real estate, it's this: We ALL (from Trump to Colin Egbert himself) made mistakes at some point in our journey to success. We weren't the luckiest people in the world who just magically started flipping properties right off the bat without ever falling on our faces. But it's our ability to get up and push on AFTER falling on our faces that has separated us from those who do, and those who wish they did.

If you feel that 2008 was "just another year" and you are not pleased with the direction that your career as an investor is headed, then take charge today and declare that 2009 is going to be different, regardless of the challenges that it will bring.Stop being one of those that wishes they did, and start doing because, let me tell you, once you break through those barriers you will see that life is pretty awesome over here.

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