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beth
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Hi Carroteers! :carrot:

My name is Beth and I am a Community Manager here at Carrot. So excited to be here with you and have a chance to create this space for all our Carrot members to connect, collaborate, empower and share knowledge with each other :bangbang:

:round_pushpin: It will be wonderful if you introduce yourself here in the thread:

  • Name
  • Location
  • Investor/Agent/Both
  • How did you get into business and how long have you been in the real estate industry? :carrot:
  • What is your area of expertise (GIVE) (i.e: SEO, PPC, successful deal stories, anything you are proud of)? :hugging:
  • What are you looking to gain (ASK) (I.e: joint ventures, mentoring, marketing, sharing leads, anything and everything)? :question:

 

Feel free to add any other fun facts about you, throw in some hobbies, pet pics :hugging: This is the best way for all of us to get to know one another! :wink:

 

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:round_pushpin: Hi Everyone! So great to read all the inspiring stories of successful investors here!  I am on my way to being one of those and would love to hear more stories- the good, bad and ugly! .

  • Mary Grace
  • New Hampshire
  • Investor (working on being an agent...again)
  • I’ve always been intrigued by REI and the creative financing part.  My parents had rentals and as kids had to work on them! UGH! But now I see why.  I became a broker back in 2002 and worked short sales, Loss Mitigation, etc and it was near and dear to my heart.  2008 hit -lost hope with the banks and closed up shop. Now back full throttle... but on the investment side of things!😍 :carrot:
  • I experienced the magic of SEO in other industries’ websites and have seen how when you can make the phone ring, it’s king! I want to bring that to my passion here and empower everyone along the way.   :hugging:
  • I’m just in my infancy stage in investing and would love to collaborate, joint venture and see what we could all make happen here.  If I can make my phone ring and get leads to share with everyone, I’d be thrilled!  The stories are incredible and super inspiring for me so thank you everyone from the baby in the family! :hugging:

 

My son just started Kindergarten, so this is the perfect time to start up my biz! I’m so excited to get back out there and start talking to people again! Attack!! (as I always say)  :wink:   My 2 passions since I was young Homes and Health.  I’ve been a medical fitness professional since 1996, recently as a Metabolic Specialist and functional nutritionist.  We don’t have any pets right now, only fish *(that keep having babies...who knew?!?)

 

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Hello Everyone! BRAND new to Carrot but really old in the real estate business. My particulars:

  • Jeff Schoenfield
  • Hybrid Agent/Investor
  • Live and work in the Beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee (Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville etc.)
  • After careers in the computer industry and in finance (each for about 8 years) I have been in real estate since 1995.
  • Currently Broker/Owner of a very small real estate company here
  • Looking to make the transition to SEO based marketing
  • Have built a pretty good real estate portfolio for myself but still love flipping homes
  • Eager to learn about other ways to make very difficult transactions work
  • Rescue Dog Lover - Blue often rides with me - Before & After Photos Below:
  • Less than 8 weeks old and only a couple of days away from starvation, in the middle of the winter Blue crawled out from under a dumpster at a flip house that we were rehabbing.
    After a couple of months of love!

    Unlike people, rescues never forget!

Jeff Schoenfield | Broker/Owner @ All Pro Realtors in Sevierville, TN | Digital Marketer
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Hi Carroteers! :carrot:

My name is Beth and I am a Community Manager here at Carrot. So excited to be here with you and have a chance to create this space for all our Carrot members to connect, collaborate, empower and share knowledge with each other :bangbang:

:round_pushpin: It will be wonderful if you introduce yourself here in the thread:

  • Name
  • Location
  • Investor/Agent/Both
  • How did you get into business and how long have you been in the real estate industry? :carrot:
  • What is your area of expertise (GIVE) (i.e: SEO, PPC, successful deal stories, anything you are proud of)? :hugging:
  • What are you looking to gain (ASK) (I.e: joint ventures, mentoring, marketing, sharing leads, anything and everything)? :question:

 

Feel free to add any other fun facts about you, throw in some hobbies, pet pics :hugging: This is the best way for all of us to get to know one another! :wink:

 

My name is Jose Medina Agent/Investor in South East Florida, I have been a realtor for 10 years and just starting to dabble in the investor side. 

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Hey all!

  • Glenn MacRae with FS Houses/Howe and now branding myself via Carrot as We Sell 502
  • Louisville, KY
  • Hybrid!  Agent/investor
  • I’ve been working in real estate for just under two years, but been interested in it for many more.  When I was a teenager, my bad bought a couple mulitfamilies but sold them soon after because of the stress of self-managing the properties. When I moved to Louisville, I partnered up with a local team with experience flipping and investing as they began a property management business.
  • I have expertise in deal analysis, prospecting, rehab management, budgeting, and property management.
  • I am looking to gain as much knowledge as possible on marketing and from other experienced hybrid agent/investors!
beth
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Welcome to all our new community members 😍 ! We are excited to have you here!

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So nice to meet everyone. 

My name is Angel Hagen, my husband Jeramie Ayala and I own and operate Mastiff Home Buyers in Kansas City. We live in Belton MO, but are from Topeka KS. We recently were mentioned in someone else’s blog, so I am super excited about that https://www.homelight.com/blog/we-buy-houses-kansas-city/

We are investors and we started rehabbing after we had a fire in our own home in Topeka, fired the contractors and did the rehab on our own. So we have only been in real estate for 5 years. 

Jeramie can fix or build about anything and knows all kinds of construction. I am a connector of people and love helping people find what they need. I am learning the art of creative financing and it is fascinating. I am also a leadership coach so if you have teams who could benefit from some knowledge in leadership, give me a shout. 

I want to surround myself with people who are more experienced in real estate so I can absorb your knowledge. 

I am a mom of adult children, dogs, cats, chickens, and ducks, and I guess an opossum that Jeramie saved from the dogs and named Frankie

😳

 

 

 

Angel @mastiffhomebuyers
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So nice to meet everyone. 

My name is Angel Hagen, my husband Jeramie Ayala and I own and operate Mastiff Home Buyers in Kansas City. We live in Belton MO, but are from Topeka KS. We recently were mentioned in someone else’s blog, so I am super excited about that https://www.homelight.com/blog/we-buy-houses-kansas-city/

We are investors and we started rehabbing after we had a fire in our own home in Topeka, fired the contractors and did the rehab on our own. So we have only been in real estate for 5 years. 

Jeramie can fix or build about anything and knows all kinds of construction. I am a connector of people and love helping people find what they need. I am learning the art of creative financing and it is fascinating. I am also a leadership coach so if you have teams who could benefit from some knowledge in leadership, give me a shout. 

I want to surround myself with people who are more experienced in real estate so I can absorb your knowledge. 

I am a mom of adult children, dogs, cats, chickens, and ducks, and I guess an opossum that Jeramie saved from the dogs and named Frankie

😳

 

 

 

Look at you! Getting those backlinks from a MASSIVE SITE! Welcome, Angel! So happy to have you and Jermaine in our community!

Tell us about your and Jermaines experience up this this point. Why did you choose real estate investing? How'd you find Carrot and see it as a solution?

Scott Johnson | Broker | Digital Marketer
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Hello Everyone! BRAND new to Carrot but really old in the real estate business. My particulars:

  • Jeff Schoenfield
  • Hybrid Agent/Investor
  • Live and work in the Beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee (Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville etc.)
  • After careers in the computer industry and in finance (each for about 8 years) I have been in real estate since 1995.
  • Currently Broker/Owner of a very small real estate company here
  • Looking to make the transition to SEO based marketing
  • Have built a pretty good real estate portfolio for myself but still love flipping homes
  • Eager to learn about other ways to make very difficult transactions work
  • Rescue Dog Lover - Blue often rides with me - Before & After Photos Below:
  • Less than 8 weeks old and only a couple of days away from starvation, in the middle of the winter Blue crawled out from under a dumpster at a flip house that we were rehabbing.
    After a couple of months of love!

    Unlike people, rescues never forget!

THANK YOU for rescuing dogs! One of the sellers I worked with left their blue pit bull tied to the back porch with no food or water and I didn’t find it until 4 days after they moved out. I would have taken them, but they hadn’t eaten and were food aggressive when I brought them food and water, so I had to let Animal Control handle them, unfortunately. 

ALL of our dogs are rescues, and that’s exactly how I’ll acquire them for the rest of my life.

Scott Johnson | Broker | Digital Marketer
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Hello Carrot Community,

I am happy to be here.

  • I am Tom LaRocque
  • I live in the Denver area.  More specifically beautiful Golden CO.
  • I’ve been a licensed agent for 12 years, and an investor for 15 years.
  • I was a print journalist before getting into real estate.  (Examples at https://www.denverpost.com/author/tom-larocque/.)   I am learning to blog effectively to generate leads.  (See https://thomaslarocque.com/.)
  • I want to learn wholesaling from experienced mentors.  I may or may not wholesale in Colorado, due to my current employer’s concerns about liability.  But I can definitely buy properties to flip or hold; and represent other investor-buyers.
carlosinvestorfuse
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Hello Carrot Community!

 

Excited to be here and connect with more of the Carrot Community moving forward. Long time fan of Carrot and the team (Have had the pleasure of meeting a good bit of the Carrot team in person over the years!)

 

Our CEO John Whitfield and I are on the Carrot AMA this afternoon at 3pmEST!

 

You can join the AMA event page + and add questions for the AMA here.

 

  • Carlos Zamora
  • Miami, FL
  • SAAS/Investor/InvestorFuse
  • How did you get into business and how long have you been in the real estate industry?I have been in and around Real Estate Wholesaling since the end of 2013 after graduating college. I started wholesaling in Baltimore, MD with one of the Co-Founders of InvestorFuse, and joined the InvestorFuse team shortly after launching, and found I got a lot more energy helping investors with their businesses than negotiating with seller leads :carrot:
  • What is your area of expertise Lead management, CRM usage, connecting and networking :hugging:
  • What are you looking to gain (ASK) Connections, relationships, good conversation and finding where I can be most helpful :question:
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  • Mike Sullivant (Mike Wayne on Facebook if you’d like to connect there)
  • Living in South East Asia 
  • Virtual Marketing in the NW region of Indiana. Have done deals in Canada as well (lived there too and my wife is from there).
  • Investor
  • Casual investor since 2012, on my own since 2022. As my oldest daughter was preparing to move from SEA back to Canada in 2020, I wanted to buy a house for her to live in while she got settled (and I have 3 other kids to repatriate as well), and I began looking at how to properly account for expenses in owning a home (repairs, maintenance, capx, etc) and ran across BiggerPockets and had my mind blown by how REI should and could be done. My previous deals had been with other partners and the cashflow was always negative. Ran numbers for about 7 months and found a duplex that would be better than break even and we were able to get that. But the numbers in Canada are not that great for cashflow so I turned my investing attention south to the place of my birth.  :carrot:
  • What is your area of expertise (GIVE) (i.e: SEO, PPC, successful deal stories, anything you are proud of)? :hugging:
    • Just getting started so I can’t say that I’m an expert, but I have focused on SMS lead generation.
  • What are you looking to gain (ASK) (I.e: joint ventures, mentoring, marketing, sharing leads, anything and everything)? :question:
    • If you read this far, I’m looking to JV with someone who has experience on the paperwork side of creative financing.

 

beth
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Welcome to our new community members!

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  • My name is Matthew Bergdorf
  • I am in Henderson NV (Las Vegas Suburb).
  • I am Both an Investor and Realtor
  • I have just recently dove into real estate and got licensed. I have had a rental property (in North Carolina) for about a year now, and so I am sick and tired of living for someone else, its time to live for my family and me! 
  • Hmm, I am a bit new to this whole thing, but I learn extremely fast, I have completed 3 books on how to wholesale in just a few days. I am proud of the previous work I did, I was a strength and conditioning coach for the last 12 years.
  • I am looking to gain some insight on how to really run a business and not just ‘wing it’, so things like business plans, marketing, understanding the online space (I seriously feel like my Dad at times I am so web illiterate). I would love to do joint ventures and partnerships, I really would like to provide value to others if I can. But I am sure that will come with time!
beth
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@bergdorfestates Welcome and congratulations on your real estate license!

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Hello Carrot Team

Ray K Leon from Tallahassee Fl, lives in Fayetteville NC

Wholesale, Lease Options, Foreclosures 

Investing since Mlitary Retirement, Airborne All the Way, 82nd Airborne Division, 2005

Expertise: Wholesales, Lease Options, Foreclosures

Getting all the learining from Carrot which is so much BUT I am motivated to learn. I am looking for more understanding in real estate in the technology world, so much is changing especially in marketing. I just want to be knowledgable, keeping learning and helping others along thw way. (AIRBORNE)

beth
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@rkldil Welcome to the Community and thanks for introducing yourself!

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  • Anthony Beckham
  • Roseburg Oregon
  • Both and Agent and Investor
  • This will be my 6th year as a licensed real estate broker. I got into real estate to make enough money to buy rental units (7 total currently) and eventually retire on passive income!
  • We have taken our video content to the next level with a full time videographer and have taken all of the Carrot teams advice on creating high quality content. YouTube, etc. 
  • I’m here to continue to learn, improve, and make friends with like minded people! :D
beth
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@anthonybeckham Welcome to the Carrot Community and congratulations on your 7 rental units + your full time videographer!

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  • Chad Breeden
  • Richmond, TX (near Houston)
  • Investor
  • I have officially been in the real estate business for 27 days. I have been going back and forth between starting my business for about a year now and finally decided that after the holidays I was going to dive in. (not a New Years resolution, wanted to enjoy the holidays off)
  • Areas of expertise currently I would say is not REI but I am learning still and always open to new ideas. I work as a Salesforce consultant and was in the Marines so I have some knowledge there but it may not be helpful for these purposes 😂
  • Looking to gain all of the above, mentors, partners, education, anything and everything!

 

Chad
beth
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Welcome @cbreeden to the Carrot Community and real estate investing! Are you doing any mentoring programs?

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  • Hi Community! My name is Domonique!
  • Location: Southern California!
  • I am a real estate investor!
  • I joined the real estate industry in Feb/2023! I am currently under mentorship in wholesale real estate. :carrot:
  • My success story so far is taking the first step in further my education. I feel it’s important to learn a new high-paying skill, especially now. I invested in carrot so that I can have extra help with marketing and get my brand out there! :hugging:
  • Like Breeden said, I am looking to gain all of the above: mentors, partners, education, anything and everything!!!!
beth
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@domoniquestevens Welcome to the community! Please post any questions you have so we can help!

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Hello, my name is Jackie Jackson, a loan broker based in Frisco, TX. My husband is a general contractor and together we are setting our sights on investing in apartment real estate. We understand that our combined experience in the wholesale industry provides us with a unique opportunity to leverage our resources to make this venture successful. Our goal is to become knowledgeable in this field and use our expertise to give back to the community as we grow. We are looking forward to learning from the the community and appreciate any advice or help offered. Thank you! 

beth
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@TXLoanBroker Welcome to the community! We are excited to have you!

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I”’ a few weeks late to posting this. Been split between a W2 and working on the website, networking and leads.

  • Andrzej Walter Lipski
  • Middletown, Connecticut
  • Investor / Wholesaler https://www.nextdoorpropertycompany.com/ 
  • Been a limited partner in syndications for 7+ years started taking an active role based on coming economic trends. Building my wholesaling business now so it is well established in 3-5 years. It is also going to feed my own flips and rental portfolio
  • I use Direct marketing (postcards, letters) and SEO with some PPC $1500/m spend
  • Goal of 1-2 assignments per month, 1-2 flips a year, 2-3 purchases per year

Hoping to learn some lessons and best practices for running this operation

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