106 » Why You Should Strongly Consider Adding (Low-Risk, High-Yielding) Notes to Your Investing Portfolio » Bryan Ellis
Summary: In this episode, Alex and I are talking with a super-smart financial guy – Bryan Ellis. Bryan is not only a genius investor, but he’s also a terrific educator and coach who has an uncanny ability for explaining complicated financial stuff in easy-to-understand terms that we can understand. I’ll be the first to admit – self-directed investments like notes are a bit confusing to me, but Bryan is here to set us (and me) straight by laying it all out there in a way that it all makes sense. Basically, he’s gonna talk to us about investments for the self-directed investor – real estate notes, tax lien certificates and cash flow producing real estate… In other words, say ‘bye bye’ to the risky, low-yielding stock market and ‘hello’ to the low-stress, high-yielding world of notes. And Bryan shows us how. So let’s get to it… Listen and enjoy: What's inside: 1:20 – Alex tells us about his current marketing and latest deals 4:45 – Joe tells us about his latest – super cool deal 14:28 – Bryan talks about what he offers in his new podcast series 21:55 – How Bryan gets his skin in the notes game 29:26 – Bryan explains what a partial note is 32:30 – Three categories of notes and how to find notes to invest in 45:50 – Bryan’s talks about why he started his newsletter 50:15 – Deciphering good REI education materials and mentors from the bad Mentioned in this episode: Bryan’s podcast <a href="http://www.sdiradio.com" target="_blank">Self Directed Investor Radio</a> Bryan’s website <a href="http://WWW.SDIRADIO.com/notes" target="_blank">SDI Radio.com/notes</a> Bryan’s newsletter <a href="http://www.Investing.bryanellis.com" target="_blank">Investing Bryan Ellis</a> <a href="http://www.zillow.com" target="_blank">Zillow</a> <a href="http://www.craigslist.org" target="_blank">Craigslist</a> <a href="http://www.lifeonaire.com" target="_blank">Lifeonaire</a> <a href="https://postlets.com" target="_blank">Postlets</a> <a href="http://www.RealEstateInvestingMastery.com" target="_blank">Real Estate Investing Mastery</a> Tweetables: [Tweet "It only makes sense to move away from risky stock markets and invest in tax-free self-directed IRAs"] [Tweet "Seller-financed transactions are high yielding, highly secure, predictable & low stress. Do some"] [Tweet "I love investing in notes because I collect payments on a regular basis & don’t pay taxes or interest"] Transcription: <a href="http://www.realestateinvestingmastery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/REIM-106-Why-You-Should-Strongly-Consider-Adding-Low-Risk-High-Yielding-Notes-to-Your-Investing-Portfolio-.pdf" target="_blank">Download episode transcript in PDF format here...</a> Joe: Welcome, this is the Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast. Hey! Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast. Glad you're here! And Alex, glad you're here. How are you? Alex: I'm glad you're here, Joe. I'm good. I'm good, really good. We’ve got a lot of good things going on deal-wise, and ramping up, actually I got like four different new construction closings in which we're selling out of the properties, so... Joe: Nice. Alex: It's good, yeah. Joe: What are you going to do with all that money, beside send it to Uncle Sam? Alex: Pay taxes on it. Joe: I was going to say yeah. Alex: In fact that might lead into a really good reason for this call, but yeah. Joe: Oh yeah, we have a guest today we're going to talk about self-directed stuff, and self-directed IRAs, and investments for the self-directed investor. It's going to be a good conversation. So Alex I just want to ask you about your marketing, is it still going strong, are you still on the hunt for leads and deals? Are you… Alex: Always-always, you got to always be on the lookout for leads and deals. The paper click is still going strong, I just got a contract day before yesterday for 45,000,
