I`m the biggest sceptic anyone will ever meet. When my Mom joined REIN is 2003, I thought she was nuts, because she was the type to join things and think she was going to make a million dollars by doing so. I used to wonder how she bought into so many things. I`m a huge sceptic of multi-level marketing companies, and I still think that`s warranted. However, after my Mom joined REIN, I watched her buy a little house, then a fourplex, then a sixplex, then a 17 suite multi family, then a 21 suite multi family building all in a two year period and after the age of 60. I actually still thought she was nuts because I didn`t understand how little risk her action taking was. I didn`t understand what she was trying to acheive because I was off in my own little world struggling to pay my bills and wrapped up in the rat race. I thought she was nuts because I didn`t understand that she knew what she was doing until after I joined.
She offered to buy me my REIN membership for the first year. I took her up on it because I wanted to understand. I joined after attending the Quickstart Program in October of 2005. I put an offer on my first property 2 months later and closed on it in February, then bought 5 more over the next year.
I couldn`t have done this without the knowledge I received in REIN and neither could my Mom. I hope REIN continues to make money, because the education they are offering changes lives. Don Campbell has taught us the concept that the more you give, the more you get. That`s why you find REIN Members on this site giving to their fellow REIN members as much information as they can. We have our own built in cheer leading team and genuinely wish nothing but the best for each other in every aspect of our lives.
There`s enough money and properties out there for everyone who wants to work to attain their goals. REIN should make money from the education they are giving us and the more they make, the more programs they will be able to offer. I`ve been a REIN member for 5 years now and I learn something every time I go to a REIN meeting or listen to a REIN CD.
No one wants to get sucked into something that isn`t going to benefit them. I think you first have to decide if you have what it takes to take action and buy real estate. That might be hard to know without the REIN education. I knew I was an action taker before I joined and I knew I just needed knowledge to boost me. I already understood the concept of equity building through real estate. What I didn`t know was how to go about investing, how to landlord, how to make an investment binder, where to invest, how to analyse a property to find ones that would cashflow, where to start, that there was actually a step by step process to succeed, that I could reach out to knowledeable people for real answers to anything I didn`t know, etc, etc, etc, etc. etc.
The only thing I knew is that I had nothing to lose by joining. Your time isn`t renewable, money is, so my advice is not to get so wrapped up in what it costs for a REIN membership, but instead think about how much time you waste in your life that you`ll never get back. The sooner you join, the sooner your life changes.
