Note Night In America

Nobody really knows for certain what post-COVID real estate investing will look like, but we can make pretty good predictions based on the data that we have from the previous recession and what the market looks like now, months since the pandemic’s initial onslaught. As things stand, there are opportunities now and there will be opportunities to come, if you know where and how to look for them. On this episode of Note Night in America, the Vice President of Market Economics for Auction.com, Daren Blomquist, joins Scott Carson and shares the different market factors of the residential real estate investing markets. In particular they look at how the distressed notes market is doing in the face of increasing defaults and the tempering effect of foreclosure moratorium and the forbearance programs. They also discuss the future timing of foreclosures and how it will affect real estate investors and markets over the next one to two years.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note N

Unless you’re within an hour or two away from your market, you’re probably asking yourself how you can continue investing in real estate and do everything it entails while being in the comfort and safety of your home. In this episode, Scott Carson talks about the different ways that you can find, identify, and hire vendors and a virtual team of experts for your note business. He discusses upfront due diligence, finding realtors, real estate attorneys, title and escrow companies, collateral review and storage, forced place insurance companies, property preservation, property management, contractors, and hiring virtual assistants to accomplish this all for you. Once you get the hang of this virtual systems thing, you may not want to get back fully to the way things used to be once this pandemic lifts. Listen and learn how you can take part in the new normal of note investing!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson

Wondering how markets are faring through this pandemic? Let Scott Carson take you for a ride in his Note Nation Top 40 Tour, where he will be targeting and sharing info on the current residential and commercial real estate markets in these top 40 cities. He will also be sharing the current and future real estate investment opportunities in each city. In this episode, listen to what Scott has to offer with this virtual nationwide tour – and it’s all for free! Don’t miss this opportunity to get educated about the market situation from the East Coast to the West Coast and be one of the note investors who will thrive in this opportunity-ridden economy.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Self-storage businesses provide customers a secure space where they can store things they don’t need right now but can’t bring themselves to throw away. The average storage facility unit in America is around $90 a month, and it has become a big business with nearly 1 in 10 American households using one of about 50,000 facilities. On today’s show, Scott Carson talks with real estate investor Stacy Rossetti about her process for finding self-storage deals and her simple plan of making it easy to operate. Have you ever done a self-storage deal? Find out if it’s about time you do by tuning in to this episode. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Just with any other business, proper preparation for your new real estate investing venture will give you numerous advantages and preempt some of the problems that may arise in the future. What are the things you need to do when starting out as a new note investor? Today, Scott Carson takes his expertise in note investing to share eleven critical items that new note investors (and real estate investors, in general) need to put in place when they start investing. Listen as Scott explains why you need to cross off each of these items in the checklist if you are to succeed as a note investor. Sit down, get your pen and paper, and join in.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

There comes a point in growing your business operations when you won’t be able to keep doing what you’re doing alone. Many successful entrepreneurs are now hiring their very own virtual assistant so that their business can keep going even when they’re not around, and they’re focusing on much more important tasks. Scott Carson is joined by Bob Lachance, the founder and CEO of REVA Global LLC, the premiere virtual assistant staffing company. Scott and Bob discuss some of the best practices in hiring and training a virtual assistant for your business. It’s been said that, “If you are not working to get your business or investing operations to run without you, you are thinking too small,” so make sure you can get your operations to that point with the help of a virtual assistant!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America

A lot of changes are taking place across the country. Sparked by the fall of one domino, the COVID-19 pandemic, we see the moving parts in our society slowly toppling one over the other. Where are we now in the chain of events? Where is it going? What will it look like ahead? In this episode, Scott Carson answers these questions, particularly in the note investing space. He discusses where the dominos are falling in the note market and where the opportunities lie. Gearing you up for a more hopeful future, he also shares what you should be doing over the next 30 days to make the most of the second half of 2020. Now is not the time to be a casualty in this chain reaction; create lemonade out of the lemons thrown at you. Scott guides you how in this discussion.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson

There are so many ways to go about investing in real estate, so many methods you can incorporate into your practice, and having a stronger foundational knowledge of all these techniques can help you decide what works best for what you’re doing and what you want to do. One of these methods is called the Deferred Sales Trust, which, simply put, is a manufactured installment sale. Scott Carson is joined by Brett Swarts of the Capital Gains Tax Solutions Podcast. Together, they discuss the differences between 1031 Exchanges and Deferred Sales Trust. They also discuss how the DST can be a better fit for your long-term investment strategies.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

As the economic shutdown continues, commercial real estate reels back in the biggest drop it has seen for decades. How are the biggest players in the industry faring? What does this chaos mean for smaller companies and investors? What can they do to survive the fallout? These are just some of the questions Scott Carson addresses in this episode. He breaks down the losses in the commercial real estate mortgage markets and gives tips for smaller players on how to survive the crisis. There might be an opportunity in this crisis, but you have to work really hard for that to materialize.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

As an investor, how can you protect yourself and your business? Arming yourself with some key strategies that can help your business thrive despite these chaotic economic times is key. In this episode, Scott Carson breaks down the ten steps every investor should be doing to help protect themselves and their real estate and note investment business. These steps can help you get through the next 60 to 90 days. He also explains the importance of calling vendors, borrowers, and other people related to your business.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Building a strong knowledge base can help you grow your business better and faster. One of the best ways to achieve the necessary skills to do so is by learning from key people. In this episode, Scott Carson talks with Aaron Young, the CEO of Laughlin Associates, about the Magnify Your Wealth Summit, a conference for highly motivated business owners passionate about increasing wealth. Aaron outlines the top ten reasons why you should attend the event, starting with the venue all the way to a promising future.    Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

There’s a saying that you should always make sure to hedge your bets in order to protect yourself from most risks, and the same principle holds true in real estate as well. Taking on a syndication project is, for the most part, the wisest way to function in the real estate industry so as to protect one’s investments from the most possible harm. Joel Block is a business executive and professional speaker who specializes in real estate, finance, and sales. Scott Carson interviews Joel about what goes into creating successful syndications and hedge funds when one is looking to do larger deals. Joel talks about the “Wall Street way” of raising capital, and why it’s one of the most effective and rewarding ways to do real estate and note investing on a larger scale.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoSc

There are many ways to go about in business that it can be so easy to get lost within it. No matter how much you try, everybody in this space knows that you just can’t be everything to everyone. That is why it is always best to niche down and know where you can serve and do best. In this episode of Note Night in America, Scott Carson discusses the need for knowing your WHY and building your marketing plan around your focus to find success. Anchoring your business down to keep from drifting, Scott shares some of the important things to consider in the note business from putting together a business plan down to expanding your network. Heed Scott’s advice and more that takes you back to the basics, helping you move your business in the right direction.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson

In order to be seen, known, wanted, and even needed by your target market, you must do what it takes in terms of best practices for promoting your products and services. On this episode of Note Night in America, Scott Carson shares over 60 ways that he and his team promote their different events, webinars, trainings, and podcast. He also shares some creative ways to get the biggest bang for your time and buck when looking to get the word out on what you are doing across multiple platforms for free or for those on a small budget.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Finding the right note deals can be hard especially when choices are complex. How can you ensure that deals you are eyeing are working or not? Scott Carson spends time on this episode of Note Night in America sharing what’s working and what’s not working in 2020 to find note deals. He discusses LinkedIn, email campaigns, Octopus CRM, note conventions, servicing conferences, and old-fashioned phone calls. He also shares some new training events available to everyone for the 2020 schedule and the upcoming Note Weekend trainings.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Improving fundability opens up so many options for you or your business, but it isn’t just some quick process. Even if you go to so-called credit repair establishments, you don’t just suddenly become fundable; there are processes you have to undergo to establish (or restore) your fundability in the eyes of lenders. Get Fundable‘s Merrill Chandler joins Scott Carson to dive into the process of making you fundable. There are some rules, some procedures, that you will have to go through, and it’s best if you go through them now. Let Merrill and Scott lead you towards true fundability.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Market forecasts are essential to determining the various trends that you, as a businessperson, are going to have to look out for in the coming future. These forecasts, formulated from existing historical data, are a handy guide for determining where to bring your business. Scott Carson shares his 2020 market forecast for real estate. He shares his insight on what asset classes and markets will be the most profitable. He also shares the cities that you’ll need to do more homework on before investing or buying in. Keep yourself updated on these trends!   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

LinkedIn is undeniably one of the best platforms out there to make professional connections. The more you use and explore it, the more things you discover that benefit your business. Updating what we’ve learned about it since March, Scott Carson revisits and adds to how you can leverage LinkedIn in this episode. With new things happening on the platform and with the new year just around the corner, the time is perfect to look at the ways you can use LinkedIn for finding assets and deals that will really help you grow your business. Learn about how to create more connections, present yourself better on the platform, utilize the video features, and more. Don’t miss out on Scott’s great information that will help set yourself apart on the platform. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe

We are down to the last month of the decade, and so much has changed in the notes industry. What this calls for is a reconsidering of our old ways of finding notes, because you’re only on top of the game if you are constantly on the lookout for the changes ahead. Looking forward, Scott Carson braces us for what is coming by discussing the ten different ways to find note deals in 2020. Forget about the old sources of notes. They are overfished and overpriced anyway. Join Scott in this episode and take advantage of the new sources he shares. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

We always set goals, but oftentimes, finding the best way to achieve them can be the most difficult part. Today, Scott Carson reminds us of the SMART system of setting goals. What is it? How can it help us in our real estate endeavors? Know more about this familiar system as Scott breaks down each of them along with examples that can help guide you to start your 2020 with an organized path. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Note Night in America community today:WeCloseNotes.comScott Carson FacebookScott Carson TwitterScott Carson LinkedInNote Night in America YouTubeNote Night in America VimeoScott Carson InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest