Couple Secures Income for Their Son's College Education

"We took the Profit From Real Estate Investing 3-day course in September, led by James Harris, followed by a 3-day mentoring program with Geoff Nowlin.

Among other things, the investment training helped us learn the importance of forming a "Power Team." With that information, we were able to create a dream team of contractors, realtors and landscapers. Good people are crucial to your success! The team took us through finding distressed properties and numerous financing options and exit strategies. The mentoring program then allowed us to go deeper into each aspect of real estate investing, such as how to make offers on properties, how to calculate our maximum allowable offer and how to complete paperwork, etc.

Ultimately, the programs gave us the knowledge and confidence to purchase our first investment properties. So far we've purchased two properties. The first one was a rehab project that we were able to sell for a net profit in an unbelievably short amount of time. The other is now on the market, and we estimate we'll clear a significant profit with this property as well.

We've also made an offer on our dream home--and unfinished bank-owned home that's selling under market value. Once it's finished, we look forward to having instant equity. If we hadn't learned the creative financing techniques from Trump University, we wouldn't have been able to find the cash to purchase it with zero-down. Our plans are to expand into rentals--starting by renting our current home--and to continue purchasing foreclosures and bank-owned properties, with the hopes of generating monthly cashflow.

Why did we reach out to Trump University to learn about real estate investing? Our son started college last fall. When the time came to pay for tuition, we looked at the dismal state of our mutual fund--and given the losses--we knew we couldn't cash it in. We needed another source of income for college. With real estate prices falling, we saw this as our opportunity to jump into real estate investing, and saw Trump University as a vehicle to get us started. We certainly didn't want to look back at this time in a few years with regrets, saying "if we'd only given it a try..."


- Pam and Jerry G.
Seattle, WA