Set Your Goals, Refine Your Process: Let's Crush 2025

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What are the opportunities you want?

And then what needs to happen for you to get those opportunities?

And if you do that right and you set your goals right,

in the real estate game specifically, focusing on data,

focusing on automation and technology, are gonna win what is up the science of flipping family this is the last episode of 2024 so i'm gonna deliver some hotness some greatness for you guys here because I want you guys going into 2025 excited, fired up, motivated, but also ready to tactically win the year. So we're going to go over three things on this episode.
All of these three things, I would highly encourage you guys to take out a

pen and pad as it will be very important for you to be able to go and attack the year. And the first thing I want to go over is the two major points in real estate that are going to win the day for 2025.
These two things are going to be the most important things you should be focusing on as a real estate investor in 2025. One is data.
You need to be focusing on data. The economy has been crazy for the last 18 months.
I imagine my gut feeling, I'm not an economist, but I think that 2025 year is going to still pose financial challenges. So I encourage you on refining your data.
And what I mean by that is don't go do the spray and pray method, right? Where you pull a list of 40,000 people and cold call 40,000 people. Does it work? Sure.
I've done it for years, but if you want to get targeted on deals that actual sellers are going to participate with you on, then I would actually go much more targeted, much more niche and refine the data. So when you are pulling lists, for example, I pull all of my lists out of reileadmachine.com.
reileadmachine.com. It has AI features.
It has refined data. It has everything you've ever

wanted to pull, right? There's over 400 billion data points in REI lead machine to make sure you are targeting motivated sellers. So if you are going to pull a list, make sure you refine the data then I take that list so let's just say you go in, you start with, you know, Miami-Dade County, just because I live here.
And it might bring up 700,000 people in the county and I'm making up a number, right? And from there, you refine the data to say who has the highest percentage to sell as a wholesale deal. And that might bring it down to 6,000 out of the 700,000, it might bring it down to six.
Then you take that same 6,000, you go over to a rocket skip, and I'll provide links here in the comments, go over to rocket skip, and then you refine it even more because rocket skip, then we'll actually start to go and enhance the data and figure out what sellers are in financial pain with credit card debt, income, debt to income ratios, amount of loans that they have, amount of usable credit that they have. Do they have boat loans and car loans and home loans and credit cards? What is the usage on the credit cards?

Then it refines that data and then it might bring it down to 60 people.

So from there, now you have refined data.

That 60 people is the highest utilization of your time.

That's the people you'd cold call, send text messages to, and likely even direct mail.

The point I am getting to here for everybody is you need to refine your data. You need to be focusing on data.
And once you do that, all of the marketing widgets and tactics and strategies that you've heard about from direct mail to PPC to PPL, the TV commercials, the cold calling, et cetera, then you can refine how you attack the leads. Which brings me to the second part of how you're going to win 2025, is make sure you focus on technology and automation.
AI is everywhere. If you are not playing with AI, if you're not in AI, if you haven't done it, used it, put it into your business, you need to be putting AI into your business.
And so you need to have software like Rocketly. Rocketly is a CRM.
It creates nurture follow-up sequences. It can automate conversations through email and text messaging.
You can send direct mail out of it. You can cold call through it, but you need to make sure you have some level of automation.
Now I'll throw you back about 10 years or so. We built a big business in Phoenix market, a big office, 30 people in the office, 20 cold callers, acquisition people, disposition people, assistants, you, you name it.
Very expensive, right? Operational bloat was very high. And so now as I have coached thousands of people across, you know, over a decade, I try to encourage people to not create operational bloat.
I try to encourage them to actually refine your business and you start to use automation and AI. Nowadays, you know, chat GPT is the biggest name within AI, but there's so many services and softwares.
But Rocketly, if you go to rocketly.ai, you can book an appointment, rocketly.ai, you can book an appointment there. It is the best CRM, it is the best software, it is the best nurture sequence, it is the best utility of technology and AI out there.
Period and end of story. So the two ways that you will conquer and win in the things you need to prioritize in 2025 are going to be data and rich data and refinement of data.
And then you combine that with technology, automation, and AI, and you're going to win. Now let's bring you on part number two that I wanted to bring up again.
This is a little bit of a reminder of how to go about setting goals going into 2025. Now, I've done a podcast about this before, but I'll briefly surmise this again.
What I want you to do when you're going in and you're doing your 2025 goals. First of all, if you haven't yet, you can go join REILive.co.
REILive.co. We are actively doing deals each and every day, two to three hours a day.
I'm working with you. In there, I have a goal sheet.
And in there, I teach all of my members that you want to start with the end of mind. So in 2025, what makes 2025 a kick-ass year? What needs to happen? How many deals need to be done? How much money do you need to make? How many rentals did you buy? Et cetera.
Then you can start to put that into the micro. So you start your end of year.
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Then you bring it into the micro. Okay, well, if you want to make $250,000 a year, that means you need to make roughly $20,000 a month.
Awesome. Now we're in the micro.
Well, how do you make $20,000 a month? Well, you could wholesale two properties a month, a 10 grand net profit each. Awesome.
Okay, well, how do I find two properties? Then it comes back into lead and data enrichment and then automation and CRMs, right? So then it's how many calls do I need to make? How many offers do I need to make, et cetera. But now you brought it down to two $10,000 wholesale fees.
Then at the end of the quarter, you need to make sure that you're on pace to hit $30,000 in wholesale fees or, you know, not $30,000 in wholesale fees.

Six wholesale deals or $30,000 in wholesale fees.

$20,000 in wholesale fees.

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$20,000 in wholesale fees.

And then you look at the quarter.

Are you on pace or are you off pace?

And then you go into the second quarter, Q2, and you say, okay, what do am i on pace my off pace am i ahead of pace right and if i'm ahead of pace i need to pour on momentum i got to pour on to whatever i'm currently doing and keep that thing going because as we all know the hardest thing in the world is to get momentum and so once you get it you want to keep that ball rolling as far as it can roll. So again, the brief summation, start with a macro, find your end of year goals.
How much money do I want to make? How many deals do I want to do? How many rentals do I want to buy? Then you bring that into the micro. You say, what does that mean per month? And then what does that mean per day and week within each month? What does that mean per quarter? What does that mean for six year or six months? And then what does that mean at the end of the year? So go macro, break it down into micro, makes it way easier.
And you start to be able to measure your goals. And lastly, and probably the biggest point I want to bring up to you guys here on this episode is 2025.
I believe in what I'm going to be focusing on is collaboration. I'm going into 2025 with a mindset, with a heart, with an attitude, with my actions, all in the direction of collaborating versus competing.
There's a lot of people out there that still have that, like, I'm the biggest, I'm the can fuck with me i don't care i'm gonna squash anyone in my way and while i used to be that guy i can understand that guy or gal i believe moving forward collaboration beats competition and it always has i've over time leveraged collaboration to such a benefit to myself to my business and i haven't given enough um focus or i haven't given it enough recognition i should say is how far i've come through collaboration whether it's other real estate investors, realtors, students and members of REI Live and the science of flipping, whether it's other coaches, whether it's other mentors, whether it's other community members, mastermind members, colleagues, like collaboration has just made me more money. And another way to say that is working with other people, collaborating with other people, shaking more hands and made me more money.
And so I'm going into 2025 with full-blown intentions, and I hope you do too, to collaborate more. Do deals together.
I would

rather do deals than do 50-50 deals. That's what REILive.co is all about.
REILive.co. It is all about doing deals 50-50, right? And I want to do that with everybody.
And I want to collaborate more with individuals. I want everything to be a collaborative effort versus is me just winning and squashing everyone.

Now that takes some intention.

And that takes some... individuals.
I want everything to be a collaborative effort versus me just winning and squashing

everyone. Now that takes some intention and that takes some, some muscles that usually are not utilized often, right? That takes, uh, the ability to realize it's not just about me.
It's just not about what I'm out to do. It is also about the other people and what value you can provide and what value they can provide.
And if you do collaboration in the right way, you should be making way more money and working less than if you just try to take it on yourself. Now, I'm going to bring this

full circle right back into data, technology, AI, and goal setting, right? So I'm going to combine all of these within collaboration. If I can find resources that have better data and skip trace it through rocket skip.

And I can use automation like rocket lead.ai and then i can actually use and collaborate with other people in markets that i might not be able to have boots on the ground with that i I know if I have a hot lead, I could actually have them go knock the door and do a 50-50 deal knocking the door. I have a member right now, a member of REI Live right now, actually has a cold caller from Egypt who actually is not getting paid to do the cold calling, but they are collaborating on the efforts.
The Egyptian cold caller is calling for free and gets 25% revenue of whatever wholesale deals my member of REILive.co makes. That is a great collaborative effort.
And so whether it's collaborating with the right data and the right people in the right marketplaces, and to help them grow and to help them make money, you will always make more money. Now, 2025 is going to pose its own challenges, right? Obviously, we're bringing in a new president, which I think there's a lot of people who are excited about that.
I myself am. But I don't believe it is going to be this real estate, I don't know, wet dream, for lack of a better way of saying it.
Like, we are still going to have challenges with interest rates. We're going to still have challenges with affordability.
We're going to have challenges with inventory. And what does that mean for us? Well, that means there's still going to be a lot of opportunity.
Because the person who does actually focus on the data and refining that data, and then has great nurture sequences with follow up and AI, they're going to find deals that those that don't aren't. there are still going to be a lot of people who are going to go through a challenging time

because the economic downsizing right going to be a lot of people who are going to go through a challenging

time because the economic downsizing, right? Meaning there's a lot of companies laying people off still. Now, the government and the news or whatever, they don't want us to recognize that.
That's not something they want to actively show or talk about too much. They do some, But my gut feeling is this way larger than it needs to be or that is being represented currently.
And that creates for the person who is a hustler, for the person that's really ready to go get it, it creates an opportunity because people aren't going to be able to afford their homes. You see, when the goings were good, COVID 2020 to 2023 and a half, people started over leveraging, right? They were doing high lines of credit and boats and multiple cars and all these other things.
And if they lose their job, they could be making a quarter million, 300,000, $500,000 a year. But they started to live a lifestyle that could support that in 2020.
And now they're not. And it creates these opportunities for the hustlers.
Now, again, the challenges become affordability and then the lack of inventory. You would think the lack of inventory would keep the prices up and affordability would bring them down.
But the affordability part isn't actually bringing

them down. And in large part, it's because people do still have very low interest rate loans.
I think we need to bring into baby boomers into this case, people who've owned their home for 20, 30 years. They're not going to, you know, those are going to be people that you do want to have nurture in, in circuit, uh, you know, AI and sequences to follow up.
And my goal for 2025 about collaboration is not just, um, I need directions for paying down debt. Starting route, apply for a SoFi personal loan and consolidate your debt into one fixed payment.
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You know, real estate investing, I'm getting my realtor license. I'm getting it so I can collaborate more with realtors, so I have a better relationship with them, so I understand their side.
Am I going to go work as a realtor? Absolutely not. When people ask me, and I get asked this a decent amount, do I suggest for someone else to go get their realtor license? More often than not, I say, absolutely.
It's going to help you more and it's going to hurt you. Do you have to play by the rules? Of course, but shouldn't you be anyways? I mean, you know, playing in the gray line is always going to be playing in the gray line, right? But you should still be playing by the rules.
There are ways that you don't have to assign and there's ways to raise money and get transactional funding and so on and so forth. You don't have to just, you know, assign deals that in states or in the cities where it's not assignable.
So I'm going to collaborate way more with realtors. I'm going to collaborate way more with those that you would think are my competition.
Why? Because when there are challenges posed, we are better together than we are apart. So when we are going to go through this, what I think is still a winter going into 2025, right? And I think we'll come out of it going into 2026.
And then we'll start to feel the benefits going into 2027. So I think we're still in a 24 month window of challenges, let's say.
Because I don't know to the extent. I don't think there's going to be any big economic crippling scenario.
But when we are at this point, I would rather be collaborating with all the people that you've seen out there, all the other podcast hosts. Why do you think I have so many of those hosts here? All the big influencers that I work with already that I'm friends with, right? We're collaborating in a great way now, right? From the Pace Morby's of the world, Jamil Damge's of the world, all the way up into the bigger influencers like myself and Grant, myself and Sean Whalen and Garrett J.
White and Andy Elliott, Brad Lee. These are people we are now collaborating.
Bedros Coulian and I are going to be putting together some things. So I say that because collaboration can get us further faster rather than just trying to do the uphill lift by yourself.
I used to be this guy all the time and I'm telling you guys going in 2025, you need to recognize collaboration will get you further faster. You know, and it can help you get more deals done and make more money, create more opportunities.
Now, I want to kind of leave this episode here with the idea of money and opportunities. Over going into 18 years, I've been a real estate, full-time real estate investor for 17 years.
Going into my 18th year, not only am I changing my point of view into collaboration, but what I've really come to understand and know to be true is the more money that is made by you, by me, the more opportunities that become given. And I want you to think about this deeply going into 2025 because I have.
What are the opportunities I would like to have? Why can't I have those opportunities now? And then what needs to happen for me to get those opportunities? When you think about what opportunities you'd like to have, and then you start to think about what opportunities, what needs to happen to make those opportunities, mostly, mostly, it's you putting yourself in the right position. But B, the real part is it's money.
Can I create opportunities that I likely wouldn't have if I didn't have as much money? And the answer every time is no. No.
Being able to take four to six massive vacations a year. We go to Orlando Disney World for at least three nights, four days, four times a a year very expensive this last time we had that private vip uh host that toured us around three different parks privately cut to the front of line every single one rode more rides than i've ever ridden um because we were able to jump around super fast took the back roads went behind the behind all the buildings like where none of the public was.
It was very cool. But it's very expensive.
And not only that, think about all the episodes that I talked about, about why I fly first class. First class is expensive, but think about the people you meet next to first class.
I've met politicians. I've met jewelers.
I've met doctors. I've met a lot of people sitting first class that has created a lot of opportunity.
In fact, one specifically, a politician, we are now very close friends. His wife and my wife talk about school for our kids and et cetera and all these different things.
And that has played a big effect into my opportunities, right? Getting kids into schools that I have no way to get into. And that's a very real thing.
And so I want you to think about making more money this year. What do you need to do to make more money? Because what are the opportunities you don't have? What are the opportunities that you want? And what needs to happen to get those opportunities? From vacations to very expensive dinners.
Later tonight, as I record this episode, I'm taking my wife on a husband, wife, daddy, mommy date. We're actually doing a little staycation, nice dinner, maybe a little bit of shopping, and stay at a hotel and just relax and just be us.
And that opportunity to get connected to my wife is the type of opportunities I'm talking about. Is that the opportunity you need? Because again, for us to get reconnected and have alone time without the kids and to decompress, it's going to cost money.
Sure, you can make the argument, oh, it doesn't have to, and you can, okay, but let's face facts. We can do it the easier route.
We can do it the nice route. We can feel good.
We can be in a nice hotel. The reality is going to cost money.
So I say all this to say, and to wrap this up, focus on collaboration. Focus on the opportunities you don't have, what are the opportunities you want, and then what needs to happen for you to get those opportunities and if you do that right and you set your goals right in the real estate game specifically focusing on data focusing on automation and technology you are going to win automation technology is how we started the episode focusing on how to shoot for your end of your goals and then collaboration and the last thing we wrapped wrapped up with, um, was opportunities and making money.
Cause I want you guys to make so much money and I want to collaborate with you. And I want to do thousands of deals with you in the next 12, 12 months.
That's a lot of deals, crazy amount of deals, but I want to do as many as we can. Even if we hit a hundred deals together, you and me doing deals, that's what it's all about.
It's all about the collaboration. Let's go focus on making a whole lot of money, creating a whole lot of more opportunities.
So then when you hear this episode going into 2026, all your goals are different, baby. That is it.
That is the year. 2024 is a wrap.
I love all of you. Thank you for the support.
If I can encourage you guys to screenshot and share these episodes that you're listening to gain more and more traction, this podcast has done very, very well this year. I just want to keep the momentum going.
I love you guys. Appreciate you guys.
Keep sharing the love. Share these episodes with your friends, and I'll see you guys in 2025.
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