Are You Done Being The Bottleneck In Your Family's Financial Future Q&A

For building passive wealth with confidence. My name is Jim Blakemore and I am the founder and the Chief excitement Officer for Iron Mountain Capital Group, a fund of funds that brings you top quality real estate investments with mitigated with risk mitigated risk mitigated investments and but still reasonable returns. We've had some, some people send us questions. So if you're on the, on the, on the, on the zoom with us, go ahead and put your questions in the chat. And meanwhile I will, I will go through a little bit of a recap and we will talk a little bit more about, you know, why Iron Mountain Capital Group could be your answer to your passive investment needs. Couple things you need to be thinking about. Simplicity is the key. I've been in the, I've been, I've been, I have been an entrepreneur all my life. I have built a number of businesses. Some of them have been very, very successful. The other ones we won't talk about today. But the one thing that I have understood are learned and, and continue to understand is that simplicity is the key. The more complex the things are, the better the chances of them going awry. I have, I'm making a point, making it a point to make Iron Mountain Capital Group a simple to work with operation both from the investor point of view and from the, and from the partner point of view. I don't like complexity. I'm too old to get to deal with complex, complex issues. I believe simplicity is the way to go. Another thing I want to tell you guys about is trust and clarity. You know, I mentioned on the webinar on Tuesday that I have been investing in real estate, oil and gas and various other projects for many, many, many years. And you know, one of the, probably the two things that I run into more and more is lack of trust and lack of clarity. Trust is generated over with long term relationships. You don't, it's very, very hard to really invest in, in, in, in something with somebody that you don't know. I've talked to so many, so many professional people such as doctors, lawyers, engineers and network marketers. They, they've got, they, the, the investment community knows that they have money so they get approached all the time. You know the, you know the, the favorite line is hey, I've got a friend who's doing this really great project. I'm investing in it. You should too. And oh yeah, just because you're in it, does that mean I need, you know what does that mean I need to invest? Are you a sophisticated real estate investor? Have you been Investing in real estate or oil and gas projects over the last 10, 15, 20 years of your life? I don't think so. Most of the time it's the first time investor that comes, that comes to me with those types of offers. And the problem is most people in the professional field don't have the, the, the ability, the knowledge, the ability or resources to properly vet an investment project, be it a real estate project, be it a mobile home project, a self storage project, an apartment project or an oil and gas project or an industrial project. They just don't have the, you know, you don't, you don't have the resources. So my, my philosophy is find two or three extremely trustworthy, very experienced operators and just ride with them. The other thing is clarity. Oh man. I can't tell you how many times I have invested with somebody and you know, they're, they, they talk to me every other day. I am on the phone with them, they send me emails telling me how things are going, I hear all about how good the project is progressing, yada yada yada. And, and as soon as my, as soon as I send them my money, crickets. I don't, you know, the project may be going great guns, it may be making tons of money, but I don't hear anything because typically the syndicator that has put, put this, has raised the money, has closed the syndication down, passed it on to the operator and he's onto his next project. So my philosophy is one, I'm going to be a major investor in all the projects that Iron Mountain Capital Capital Group invest in. I'm bringing a lot of money to the operator who is running the project. And because of that I'm going to be, I'm going to be the 600 pound gorilla in the room. They're going to want to make sure that me and my investors are take, well taken care of. And the reason is I'm going to, they want me to bring more money to them. So the clarity issue is going to be important to me. And what's the, why do I do this? You know I have, I've been very fortunate, I've been very, very fortunate to do very well in my life in a number of different areas. And, but, but the problem is I'm a song, I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a serial entrepreneur. I'm an investor in multiple projects. Most professional people, most non real estate professionals are not and you know, they really, without going to professional advisors, professional financial advisors, they really don't know what to do with their Money and typically they wind up paying more taxes than they should and they invest it in with much, much lower root returns than they, than they could be getting. And then, you know, and then there's the, you know, there's the case of professional advisors. Most of the professional advisors that are in, you know, in with the big companies, they have to, they have to push the company's products. They can't invest, they can't offer outside investments that, you know, could be even better for you, but they're captive to their, to their employer. So three of the things that are really, I think, important for you to you to know about Iron Man Capital Group and about me and about what we're doing. So one of the questions we get is, you know, how passive is this investment really? I mean, is it really a passive investment? And yes, it is. You can get as much or as little information as you want. But my philosophy is you, your, the investor is a professional, is an expert at some area. Maybe he's an attorney, maybe he's a dentist, maybe he's a doctor, a lawyer, maybe he's a, an engineer. Maybe he's, you know, maybe he works for a big company as a salesman. Whatever it is, that's what he does. He, you know, that's his full time job. And he doesn't need to be spending money or spending time chasing down, you know, what, what, what, what his money is doing. He should be able to, one, make the money, two, take care of his family, enjoy the time together, put some money away for a future, call it, call it a retirement fund, call it a, an education fund, college fund for his kids, whatever it is. But to me, it's really important that they not have to worry about what that money's doing. It's up to me to make sure that I put it in the right place for them, that they get, you know, they get reasonable returns on the money. We're not shooting for the moon. We're not trying to hit, hit a grand slam, but we're trying to make sure that the money is invested properly in, in, in specific investments that will return a reasonable, reasonable, not excessive. But we're not talking about savings account type money either. We're talking about significant money. All right, what makes Iron Mountain Capital Group different? Again, like I said, most real estate investments people get into through a syndicator. And, and maybe there's a friend who has a friend who has a friend, that sort of thing. But typically the operator is, is the syndicator. And so they've got two different, you know, they're wearing two different hats. Also. The, the syndicator, the, the person raises, raising the money, has a vested interest in making the deal look as good as possible. Iron Mountain Capital Group, we're not, we're syndicating our. Invest. Our investment portfolio, but we're not the operator. I've spent a lot of time, a lot of energy and money developing relationships with the top operators. I go to see them, I go see their projects. I go, I, you know, know, I see them several times a year at conferences. We've become friends. We become, we're more than just business associates. We're friends. And I have, I have developed those relationships on purpose specifically because I want my, I want to be able to talk to these people at a different level than just somebody bringing them money. And the other side of that one is we're bringing them lots of money. You know, I may, I may gather money. I may gather. Gather money from 2, from 10, 12, 20 investors for the, for one project, which allowed me to bring a big check to the operator of that project. And because I'm bringing them a big check, they listen. They, you know, they listen to what I have to say. If I'm concerned about something, I get an answer. So that's one of the reasons that, that's one of the primary differences between Iron Mountain Capital Group. How do I know if I can trust the operators? Verified case studies. These are people that have been in business for as long for, you know, 10, 5, 10, 15 years longer there. You know, they're not on their. I'm not, we're not invested, invested investing in their first project, nor their second, nor even their third. We're investing in maybe their fifth, 10th, 15th. These are people that have been in business for a long time, have lots of experience. They've been through the ups and the downs of the economy. They've been through the vagaries of an, you know, of, of how various asset classes do good or don't do good, that sort of thing. They know what to do when the, when the brown stuff hits the rotating instrument, you know what I'm talking about. They've been there. They've been through the, through the fire. And that's why I know I can trust them because they already know. They, They've already done there. They've already been there. They've already done the. Had to survive the problems. Will this add complexity to your life? Absolutely not. That's, again, that's my philosophy. My, it's, it's my, My job To take that little bit of complexity out of your life. Yes, you have to have the CPA to give you the tax advice. Yes, you have to, you may have to have a financial advisor to make sure you've got a 401k or, or a IRA or whatever that is. But you don't have to worry about what the money that you invest with me is doing. I'm putting it with class, I'm putting it with class A operators and I'm putting it with, with people that I know like and trust me. I'm developing that no like and trust relationship for you so that I can bridge the gap between you and the operator. Yes, you have absolutely, you have access to the operators. If you want to talk to the guy who's actually making your money grow, you can do that. I absolutely will, will facilitate that. So I don't see any chats. Laura, do you see any questions in the chat?

I don't.

Okay, well then that was, those were the questions that we received in advance for this.

But is there anything else you can think to add just inside of what you know? I mean you could speak for hours.

I, I listen. I can talk and talk and talk and talk. I've never found a microphone I didn't like. But I think the, what I would like to do is if anybody there has any questions, reach out to me. My, My email is james.jamesblakemore.com my e. I've got a website that is jamesblakemore.com and I also have my company website which is ironmountain capital group.com come to come to come to come to the. Give me a call come to our.

Website and is there a link on your website, James, for people to book a call with you?

There is a link on the website to book a call. There's also some resources for them to download. I have an ebook on how I, how I select the operators, my selection criteria. I also have a, pardon me an ebook on passive wealth. All of those are available on@ironmountaincapitalgroup.com that's I R-O-N M O U N T A I N C-A P-I T-A L G-R-O-U-P.com and again, like I said, it's james@jamesblakemore.com Looking forward to hearing from anybody about, about any question that I can answer. I do have to say one thing. I am not a registered investment advisor. I am not a financial advisor. What I do is I connect you guys. My investors, the people that I'm, that are looking for the passive income, I connect you with the massive, with the successful operators. I make sure that, that the connections are made there. I don't, I'm not going to sit here and tell you how to, about allocation, how to allocate your investments. I'm not going to tell you that I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a one trick pony. I bring you to some of the best real estate investments you can find. And that's my job. I look forward to talking to you soon. Take care everybody. Have a wonderful day. Goodbye for now.

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