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How To Become A Millionaire In Two Years Buying One House Per Month – Real Estate Investing

Joe: Hey, it’s Joe Crump. I’ve got another video here for you. This one is from Karen Smith in Columbus, Indiana. Karen: “Joe, can you explain the millionaire matrix? Does it really work and can you do it without down payments or using your credit?” Joe: Absolutely, it works. The Millionaire Matrix is a structure that I teach that shows people how they can actually make a million dollars in equity and in cash within 2 years by buying just one property per month using no credit and no down payment.

And instead of just me explaining it in this video with a talking head, I’m going to pull up a little power point here and show you exactly how this process works. Joe: I created this little power point to show you what the Millionaire Matrix is and how and why it works. Joe: Before you can understand how it works, you need to understand the principles behind it and why it works. That brings us to the idea of businesses in general. 90% of all of the businesses that start up fail in the first year, whereas 90% of all new franchises succeed. Why is that? Why would franchises succeed and businesses in general, not succeed? And the big answer is — systems. Franchises have step by step systems to show the business owner (the person who’s implementing the tactics in the strategy of the business) how to do each little system in the business.

Joe: Let’s take the ultimate systematization — McDonald’s. If you go to a McDonald’s, everything is done the same at every McDonald’s that you go to because each of their processes is spelled out in a specific system. They have a system for making a Big Mac. They have a button to press when it’s time to flip the burger. They know how many burgers to put on there, they know what order to have with a picture of a hamburger, and how to put it together where it shows you that that’s where the bun goes and that’s where the hamburger goes and that’s where the lettuce goes and that’s where the special sauce goes. And it makes it very easy for people that are not very skilled to put together a hamburger consistently all over the world. Whether it’s here in Indianapolis or whether it’s in Wisconsin or California or Berlin or Paris or Ireland — it doesn’t matter — wherever you go to a McDonald’s, you’re going to get the same burger — it’s going to be put together the same way by the same skill level of people.

Now, McDonald’s has a 200% employee turnover every year. That means that they’re constantly trying to train new people. For them to get that consistency, they have to have a system in place to make that business work. Joe: And that’s what I’ve created in the Push Button Method and the mentor program. I’ve created systems so that I can take new people (people that have never been real estate investors before) and give them a system and say, ‘Step 1, do this. Step 2, do this. Step 3, do this.’ Joe: That takes us to the next question in the process here, which is what types of deals make you money.

You need to understand that as well. In real estate, there’s only two types of deal that’ll make you money. One is properties that you buy substantially under market value, either for cash or as an assignable cash offer. And two is properties that you can buy at market value or below but you can buy them on terms. Now, by terms we’re talking about zero down structures that I teach; subject-to, multi-mortgage, land contract, contract for deed, lease option, assignable cash deals. Those are terms and if you can buy properties on terms like that, then you can make money even if you buy them very close to market value. Joe: That’s going to take us to the next step which is the beginners Millionaire Matrix. Now here’s what we want to do with the Millionaire Matrix and the goal of each system. We want to be able to make $5,000 per deal. We want to be able to do one deal per month. We want to be able to work 10 hours per month. That means hours per week. We want to be able to have $200 residual income per deal.

That residual income I’m talking means every month you’re going to get $200. We want to buy 10% under market value; it doesn’t have to be dramatically under market value because you’re buying on terms, and I’m going to show you why that makes the difference. And you’re going to want to sell it for 10% over market value and I’m going to show you how to do that. Because we’re selling it on terms as well so we can sell it for more than it’s worth. So this is the basic concept for the Millionaire Matrix. Joe: Now let’s take an example deal — how the Millionaire Matrix and an example deal would work within it. Joe: Every deal is going to be a little bit different and you’re going to make a little bit different amount of money on each one, but this is sort of the model that we’re going by. I used the $100,000 as sort of the market value of the property simply because it’s a nice round number.

I know that the market value across the country is all over the place. You should probably go by percentages rather than this but I want to show you, even on a lower end market, that you can still make this kind of money. On a higher end market you’re going to make more money. So let’s start with a lower end market and then you can extrapolate from there. Joe: Let’s say you’ve got a purchase price of $90,000. The market value is $100,000. The financing — you’re not putting any money down, you’re not getting a new loan — you’re buying it subject to the existing loan. Which means that the property is going to be deeded to you and you’re going to take over the payments on the loan — without qualifying on that loan (remember that).

You’re going to sell this property for $110,000 to a new lease option buyer. You’re going to sell it on a one year lease option or maybe a 2-5 year lease option if you choose to do that. At closing you’re going to make $5,000 on the lease option fee at closing of this deal. The equity left after the lease option fee is about $15,000. You’re taking $110,000 sale price, you’re taking $5,000 from that, and that means you’ve got $105,000 that they still owe you for the property. You only owe $90,000 so that means there’s $15,000 in equity. Now the monthly loan payment on this 90,000$ loan that’s there — let’s say its $900 a month and you’re going to lease this property for $1,100 a month. This is an example deal. Joe: Let me also reiterate — you’re buying this property subject to the existing loan. That means that you’re not putting any money down and you’re not qualifying for a loan. They’re deeding you the loan. You have complete control of the property but it’s subject to that loan that’s existing on there.

You’re buying it for a little bit under market value but not that much under market value. You’re selling it for a little more than market value but not that much over market value. You’re selling it on a lease option which the buyer may or may not exercise. You’re getting a lease option fee at closing — you’re making $5,000 at closing. And you’re going to have that equity left in the property, and if they exercise that option, you’re going to make that other $15,000. You’re going to have that loan payment that’s on that existing loan of $900. And you’re going to get a lease income on that property of $1,100. So you’ve got $200 of positive cash flow every month. So that’s sort of the model of this whole thing. Joe: So let’s go to the next frame here. This breaks down to doing one deal per month over the first year. I’m going to show you how to become a millionaire basically over a 2 year period.

Month one — let me bring my little arrow up here — cash at closing, making $5,000, that’s the lease option fee. The $200, remember the difference between the $1,100 and the $900 a month payment so that you made $200 a month on that. Equity payoff this month, you didn’t make anything. It hasn’t paid off. Nobody has exercised their option. Equity buildup — you’ve got $15,000 because you bought that property and there’s $15,000 of equity. Remember the spread — you bought and sold it for $110,000, you got $5,000 and they still owe you $105,000, and there’s a $90,000 mortgage. That leaves $15,000 on there that’s your equity. Joe: And then a tax benefit based on $100,000. This is depreciation. If you take this property and you depreciate it by years, and then you divide that by 12, you’re going to end up with an actual tax savings in your pocket of about $106 based on about a 30% tax bracket. And these are just general numbers here but they’re pretty close.

Joe: Month 2 — you’re going to do the same thing. You’re going to do another property, make another 5 grand, make another $200 a month and so now your monthly residual income is going to go up to $400 a month. You’re not going to get any payoff because the year hasn’t passed yet. You are going to build another $15,000 of equity in the property. And now your monthly tax benefit is going to be $212. Month 3 — $5,000 -same thing – it just goes up every month for the whole year. Let’s go all the way down to the bottom of the year. At the bottom of the year you’ve made $60,000 in cash at closing from just doing these 12 deals. And believe me, I’ve got people that are doing 5 or 6 of these a month on a regular basis because they’ve set up the systems that I’ve given them to do that.

Joe: The next thing is the monthly residual. Just from what’s going on here, you’ve made $15,000 the first year in that; residuals. Equity payoff — nothing’s paid off the first year yet because nobody has exercised their option yet. Equity buildup — you’ve built $180,000 worth of equity in the deal and you’ve made $882 in taxable savings during that first year. So in that first year in the Millionaire Matrix, you’ve made a total amount of cash of about $83,000. You’ve made total equity of about $180,000. So you’ve just made $263,000 in the first year doing only one deal per month. Joe: Now with these deals, if you have 8 or 10 hours of work into these deals, that’s a lot of time in these deals. So remember there’s a startup learning curve. And there’s going to be the time that it takes to set this process up, to get this system going; all of that stuff. But the actual time of the deals is very, very low. And once you learn how to do it and once you get it going, it’s going to be easy to keep it going.

Joe: So let’s go to year two, and look at the second year. Things start to change dramatically in year two, if you’re going by this model. And we have different models that we go by. You don’t have to go by this one. But I’m just taking a simple model and how it can expand your income very, very quickly. Let’s look at month one. You’ve got $5,000, your residual income is now $2,400 a month because you’ve got 12 deals (and you only have to keep 12 deals like this because they’re going to be paying off as they exercise their options).

So as the first one pays off and you get your equity out of the property because they exercised their option, you made $15,000 equity payoff in cash plus you bought a new property, so you’ve got $15,000 new equity buildup and now you’ve got 12 months’ worth of tax savings over 12 properties. So you’re going to be making about $1,200 a month in tax savings, which is pretty substantial when you start making this kind of income; it’ll save you a lot of money. Second month — same thing. Joe: Now, keep in mind — this is the big variable — how many properties are going to actually exercise their option? It’s going to be much less than the total amount, so you may not make this full amount. There are ways to optimize this process and get more of the people to exercise their option, and I show you how to do that.

I’m not going to spend the time on this video to do that. Joe: But let’s look at the bottom line on the second year. $60,000 – same as you made last year on the cash flow. Monthly residual — it well over doubled. Equity payoff — assuming that they exercised their options, just made a nice chunk of money on equity payoff. Equity buildup — you make another $180,000 on top of this $80,000. You made $15,000 in real cash money in your tax savings through depreciation, so it was a really nice year two. Then your second year on the beginners Millionaire Matrix is total cash at $284,000, and total equity of 180,000$. The grand total of year two is $464,000. I add that to the $263,000 and you’ve got $750,000 in your first two years, not quite the million that I promised you but pretty darned good. Joe: Let’s say you get better at what you do, that you get a little bit better at the process. As you’re doing this, how much will you improve? Will you get 100% better? Will you get 75% better, 50% better, 25%? How much better are you going to get at this process after one year? I venture to say that it will be more than you think.

But let’s say that you only get 25% better. If you get 25% better at better price from the seller on your property, instead of getting 10% under market value, you get 12.5% under market value. Not very much — next to 2.5% better on your price. Let’s say you get 25% down from your buyer so instead of getting $5,000 down you get $6,250 down. Let’s say you get 25% more lease money monthly and your $200 goes to $250 a month. Let’s say you get 25% higher price from your buyer — instead of getting $110,000, your price goes up to $112,500; not that much more. And you do 25% more deals a year so instead of doing 12 a year you go up to 15 deals a year. Now this is very realistic to think that you can get just 25% better. I have people that get 100% to 500% better at what they do and their production goes up with that statistic. The ability that you have and the talent that you have in this grows as you do it.

This is a skill and you build that skill through this process. Joe: So let’s look at the second year Millionaire Matrix if you’re 25% better. Now you’re making $6,200 instead of $5,000 so that jumps that up from $60,000 to $93,000. That just increased your income by 50%; right in the first column. The second column goes up a good deal as well. Your equity payoff went up almost $100,000. Your equity buildup went up by $100,000. Your tax benefits, well, they didn’t go up at all. But still, you just increased your income by a substantial amount of money. So just getting 25% better at the second year of the Millionaire Matrix — now you’ve made $730,000 that second year. You made $260,000 the first year, so NOW you’re at the million dollars. Joe: This is a realistic model and it can work. Again, part of the biggest downfall of this process is the amount of people that exercise the option which is less than we would like, but keeping these properties — you also continue to build your equity and you buy down the notes.

You get the depreciation and those other things start to grow. So that’s not a bad thing, either. Joe: So this is a great way to do it. This required no money and it required no credit. All it required is your effort to follow through with the step by step system of putting together subject-to deals, of finding buyers for those subject-to deals and filling those properties.

And you do this all without risk because you’ve got so many contingencies in the deals that you’re doing that and if you don’t find a buyer for the property that you buy, you don’t close it. I think the whole beauty of this system is that you never have to close a deal until you know that it’s going to make you money, so instead of everybody doing zero down (which everybody talks about and I talk about as well) you’re not really doing zero deals.

What you’re doing is cash out deals, all the time, without using your credit. So it’s very exciting stuff. Joe: That’s the Millionaire Matrix. it’s a very powerful way to buy properties. It creates cash flow for you upfront so that you can have a sustainable business and it also creates that long term growth and wealth building that anybody needs if you want to retire from this business and be wealthy. It’s an exciting process. This, by the way, is what I teach in my six month program. It’s what I teach in my Push Button Method. So, either one of these programs will get you into more detail about exactly the step by step process of how to put all of that together.

I’d love to work with you and to help you and make your business and your dream come true on this. Thanks. Bye. .

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Can YOU Afford to Retire? | 4% Rule Explained | Safe Withdrawal Rate

How much money do you think you would need to be able to retire? It’s a question that a lot of people have asked their financial advisers and it’s one that seems to have a different answer for just about every time it’s asked. And the reason for that is simple the amount of money that you need to be able to retire depends entirely on how much money you think you can earn in retirement through interest and dividends and maybe even a part-time job if that’s your thing, and perhaps even more importantly how much money you’re actually going to need to survive in retirement. And that number seems to change each and every time you ask as well because projections of things like medical expenses change as time goes on. And I’m sure those of you who are nearing retirement watching this video know medical expenses just seem to be going through the roof, particularly for retirees. But that doesn’t really help us it doesn’t give us a goal to strive for as we’re going through our working careers. We may not be able to come up with an exact number that we’ll need but can we come up with something that’s at least going to be close? Well today I’m going to talk about something called the 4% rule and how it gives us that goal to shoot for.

I’m also going to be talking about some other factors to keep in mind when you’re using this rule of thumb as well as some situations where you’re going to want to avoid the 4% rule in entirely. Let’s get started. So what is the 4% rule? It’s a rule of thumb that’s used to determine the amount of funds that you will withdraw from a retirement account each year. It’s also sometimes called the safe withdrawal rate because the money you take out usually consists mostly of interest and dividends, and thus your principal either stays the same or goes down a little bit but not too much. In fact in 1994 a financial advisor named William Bengan did an exhaustive study of historical returns in the market focusing heavily on the severe Market crashes of the great Depression and the early 1970s and concluded that even during those hard Times no historical case existed where the safe withdrawal rate exhausted a retirement portfolio in less than 33 years.

And for most of us 33 years would easily cover our retirement. The idea behind the rule is that once you have approximately 25 times your annual expenses saved for retirement you should be able to retire with reasonable certainty that you could survive until death on your savings. Because at that point the amount that you take out for your annual expenses would be approximately 4% of your retirement savings. And when I say 4% of your retirement savings I mean your entire retirement savings anything that’s been earmarked to use only in retirement this includes 401ks IRAs and any other ways you’ve saved a nest egg for retirement.

For example if you had $450,000 in your 401k and $50,000 personal IRA then you would have $500,000 in all of your retirement accounts and your initial withdrawal on the first year retirement would be 4% of that $500,000 or $20,000. So some other factors that you’re going to want to keep in mind when using the 4% rule in addition to keeping an eye on your expenses, is to account for inflation. The 4% rule believe it or not actually allows you to increase the amount you withdraw to keep Pace with inflation. You can account for this either by just setting a flat 2% increase to your withdrawals each year which is the target inflation rate by the Federal Reserve or by just looking to see what the inflation rate was for the current year and adjusting based off of that. Now you might be wondering how this could possibly be I mean if you increase how much you would withdraw to keep up with inflation won’t you eventually run out of money? It’s a legitimate question but as it turns out no.

And it’s because over the long term the market goes up. Now there are a lot of numbers that are thrown around by financial advisors about how much the market actually goes up I’ve heard anything from 6 to 10% a year on average. I’m going to be conservative here and go with the 6% end of the scale. So let’s go back to the example I’ve been using in the video you start off retirement with $500,000 in savings, and in the first year of retirement you withdraw $20,000 or 4% of your savings. And I’m also using a compound interest calculator here, and it assumes that whatever you withdraw is withdrawn right at the start of the year.

So the $20,000 is going to be withdrawn on January 1st of every year. I’m only noting that because it makes it a worst case scenario you were to say withdraw $20,000 over the course of an entire year but you did it in installments of $1,600 each month you would be able to earn interest on the rest of the money that you hadn’t yet withdrawn throughout the rest of the year and thus you’re ending net worth would end up being a little bit higher than it will be in this example. So on January 1st you withdraw $20,000, meaning you only have $480,000 left in your nest egg. But over the course of the year the market goes up by 6% which means the value of your portfolio at December 31st would be $508,800. Now in year two of retirement you increase your withdrawal by 2%. So on January 1st of the second year of your retirement you withdraw $20,400. That brings your portfolio value down from $508,800 to $488,400. But again the market goes up 6%, which by December 31st brings the total value of your portfolio up to $517,704. If you were to continue to calculate this out for 30 years you’re ending net worth would be $787,716.90, almost $300,000 dollars more than what you started with in retirement! But of course this is just a rule of thumb so there are situations where you’re going to want to avoid using this all together.

One of those situations would be if your portfolio consists of a lot more higher risk Investments then say your typical index funds and bonds that are usually in a retirement portfolio. This is because obviously a higher risk investment can go down a lot faster than your typical retirement portfolios, which can be extremely devastating especially early on in retirement. Also this rule of thumb only really works if you stick to it year in and year out. And if you’re not going to be able to do that then you don’t want to use this as your retirement goal, because even violating the rule for one year to splurge on a major purchase can have a severe effect on your retirement savings down the road because the principal from which the interest and dividends that you get to survive is compounded from gets reduced. Let me give you an example of how this works: Say that in addition to taking out the $20,000 your first year in retirement, you decide to treat yourself with a new car and figuring that you’ll be traveling a lot during retirement you want to get one that’s good, big, and comfortable as well as reliable.

So for this example let’s say you get a new Toyota 4Runner for about $35,000. Now I know that you could probably find it for cheaper used, but not everybody likes to buy cars used I know my dad didn’t and besides this is just an example. So you drop $35,000 on a new car and you still have to have money to live so the $20,000 still does come out of your retirement, meaning that you only have $445,000 leftover. Now admittedly the market still does go up about 6% leaving you with a nest egg of $471,700 at the end of the year.

And even if you were to stick to the 4% withdrawal rate for the rest of retirement which, would be 30 years in this example, by the 27th year you would be taking out more than you earned an interest and dividends as well as how much the market went up. And by the 30th year of retirement you would withdraw $35,516, but with interest, dividends, and Market appreciation your portfolio would have only gained $33,209 in value.

And that could put you in a pretty dangerous position should the market go down for a couple years, or if you have some kind of medical emergency. Now I don’t want to make it seem all bad, I mean unless you retired early, after 30 years in retirement you’re probably in your 90s and don’t need the money to last very much longer and even in this example you still do end with $586,000. It could be worse right? However I do want to bring your attention to the difference that this made. This one purchase made your ending net worth that you could have left as inheritance to your children or grandchildren or even donated to charity go from $787,000 all the way down to $586,000, that’s a difference of over $200,000. And all that’s with just one splurge. But that’ll about do it for me I hope you enjoyed the video and if you did or if you learned something be sure to like And subscribe I’ve got a lot more of these Finance coming out in the near future as well as some more book summaries and other fun stuff.

But with that being said, thanks for watching and have a great day. .

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Rich Thinking vs Poor Thinking: Embracing an Abundance Mindset

In this video I’m going to reveal the key differences between rich thinking and poor thinking to help you crush your goals. Coming up! Hey, I’m Dr. Brad Klontz, your financial psychologist! On this channel, we help you transform your relationship with money, master the psychology of wealth, and live a life of abundance! So, if you’re new here, please subscribe and click the bell so you don’t miss anything! Studies have shown big differences between how rich people think compared to poorer people.

The secret is this: your beliefs about yourself, the world, and what’s possible are entirely created by you, in this moment, and they determine your results. Now that’s heavy. One of the biggest differences is that poor thinking is all about a scarcity mindset. If you want to enjoy wealth and success, you need to abandon your scarcity mindset. Scarcity is defined as the state of being scarce or in short supply. It means deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, or undersupply.

Yuck. Now look, I know that for many of you money IS in short supply, at least right now anyway, so it makes sense that you’re experiencing some scarcity. But the problem with scarcity thinking is that if you aren’t careful it consumes you – like a dark, stinky cloud that covers you. You see scarcity all around you – not just not enough money, but not enough love, not enough opportunity to go around, a lack of trust – when you are looking for it, you can see scarcity everywhere. See if any of this fits for you: When someone is nice, do you assume that they have a hidden agenda? When something good is happening, do you hold back your joy because you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop? If you fall in love, do you become paranoid and worried that you’re going to get hurt. Do you not trust your business partner? Are you so afraid someone will steal your business ideas that you don’t share them with anyone else? Do you doubt that opportunities exist for you, so you don’t bother looking for them? Do you think you aren’t smart enough or worthy enough to be successful? If you said yes to any of these questions, please know that I get it! I understand.

Of course you believe these things. You’ve been hurt by others – perhaps even by the people you should have been able to trust the most. You grew-up poor. People have taken advantage of you. You’ve been let down. You’ve been disappointed. You’ve tried, and tried, and tried but have failed. You’ve arrived at a scarcity mindset honestly. In fact, you’ve probably inherited this scarcity mindset from the people who have let you down. In many ways they’ve disappointed you because they had a scarcity mindset themselves – believing that they need to take from you because there isn’t enough to go around. The real problem with scarcity thinking is that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you don’t trust someone else, they will start to become untrustworthy. As your paranoia grows, they’ll start to get anxious and worried about upsetting you, so they’ll start hiding things from you and sure enough, when you catch them, you think ha, I knew it, I can’t trust anyone! But did your scarcity mindset help create this situation? When you’re anxious and you hold back the depth of your love because you don’t want to get hurt, before long your lover will leave you.

He or she will prove your scarcity thinking right, because you helped create it. If you’re desperate for money, people will sense you’re only out for yourself and they’ll avoid you, like the plague. They’ll end up despising you. If you’re only out for yourself, rich people will avoid you, and so will wealth. A scarcity mindset stinks and it can be so contagious, so people who are truly rich, people who live in abundance will avoid you.

If you want to think like the rich, if you want to get rich. you need to embrace an abundance mindset. Abundance thinking is the total opposite of scarcity thinking. Abundance is defined as a large quantity of something. Synonyms for abundance include boatloads, globs, oodles, plenty and heaps. Abundance assumes that there is plenty to go around – plenty of love, globs of money, and boatloads of opportunities. When you embrace an abundance mindset, you start seeing opportunities all around you. Doors begin opening for you.

Doors that have always been there but you hadn’t noticed before. When you’re living a life of abundance, you give love fully, deeply, and fearlessly, without regret. And of course, your lover loves it! In fact, everyone loves it! They want to be around you. They want to share your passion. They want to do business with you. They want to buy your products. They want to spend time with you. They want to help you, because your abundance mindset is contagious, and it feels so good to be around you. When you have an abundance mindset, instead of fearing sharing your ideas with your “competition,” you look for opportunities to share with them – to collaborate with them.

To work together. You help them grow, and guess what happens? They help you grow! You’re totally committed to your business partner’s success so committed that he or she would never think of betraying your trust – they would be a fool to do so, because you keep bringing so much to the table. So how do you abandon your poor thinking for rich thinking? Let’s do it right now. In this moment. Let”s do an experiment. Right now – You have a choice: You can spend the next 10 minutes focusing all your attention on your problems, on your failures, on your betrayals, on all the barriers to your success. Or, you can spend the next 10 minutes getting excited about searching for and noticing the opportunities around you – the beauty, the love, your strengths, your passions, your goals, your gift to the world – a gift you must give to the world – and you definitely have one, I promise! Embracing an abundance mindset IS the pathway to success and it feels great, and don’t you want to feel great? Special thanks to Your Mental Wealth Advisors and the Heider College of Business at Creighton University for helping sponsor this channel.

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