The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast|Real Estate Investing Episode 135: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Taking Action, with Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson is an expert in the world of real estate investing. He first began investing at the young age of 23, right after his college graduation. He went on to build a portfolio of more than 250 units, covering everything from single-family homes to an apartment complex with more than 80 units. Today, Gary is a self-made millionaire who continues to practice real estate and is also the Chief Wealth and Income Officer at My Investment Services and the Chief Guidance Officer at Path to Freedom. Gary has completed over 100 transactions per year consistently every single year, without a sales team or assistant and with virtually no marketing costs. He traded over 3,000 investment properties in less than five years.
Gary Wilson is also the author of five real estate investment books, including Rental Profits Without the Pain, Flipping for Profits Without the Risk, Turning Real Estate Problems into Real Estate Profits, Wholesaling So Everybody Wins, and Real Estate Investor vs. Agent: How Both Can Make More Money, Not More Work. Gary is the Founder, Trainer and Coach of the Path to Profit System, teaching more than 15,000 agents and investors in person. Students of the Path to Profit System have gone on to create fortunes in brokerage, property management, and by applying multiple investment strategies including flipping, wholesaling, and acquiring rentals. Gary has appeared on over 100 national and local media outlets including CBS, FOX News, NBC, ABC, Business Week, and iTunes.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- How Gary initially got involved in real estate, and why he decided to make a career out of serving other real estate investors
- How Gary’s My Investment Services organization came to be, and what services they offer to real estate investors
- Why building a great team of experienced professionals around you can help supercharge your investing
- What obstacles Gary often sees in his coaching students, and why Gary believes that surrounding yourself with successful people can help break down your limiting beliefs
- Why having a contingency “plan B” can often hold you back from finding success with your “plan A”
- How Gary dealt with the 2008 real estate recession while going through a divorce and dealing with a broken back from a skiing accident
- How Gary learned important lessons about asset protection, deal structuring, and borrowing from himself rather than other people
- What key daily activities Gary practices each and every day to operate at his maximum potential
- What important coaches and mentors Gary learned from throughout his career that reshaped the way he did business
Resources:
- Website: www.myinvestmentservices.com
- Rental Profits Without the Pain by Gary Wilson: https://amzn.to/2MZ2nCH
- Flipping for Profit Without the Risk by Gary Wilson: https://amzn.to/35tOqmH
- Turning Real Estate Problems into Real Estate Profits by Gary Wilson: https://amzn.to/36pv5nP
- Wholesaling So Everybody Wins by Gary Wilson: https://amzn.to/2N1pBI8
- Real Estate Investor vs. Agent by Gary Wilson: https://amzn.to/35s7MbL
- Dan Sullivan’s Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/37BTjLC
- Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath: https://amzn.to/36EMXeJ
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer: https://amzn.to/2FBT0ot
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