Richard, who is blind, credits Jonathan Cronin's REI Accelerator with giving him real operational support after other investment groups let him down. He's now working on multiple deals, including a 192-unit property, and says the community actually helps him execute.
Questions this video answers
January 11, 2024.
A 192‑unit property.
He is visually impaired — completely blind.
Richard.
Yes.
Hey, this is Jonathan Cronin.
It is such a pleasure to finally meet you, man.
It's good to hear from you and good to meet you, Richard. I'm excited for you. Saw your message and didn't realize you dropped a phone number in there, but.
Oh, yes, yes, yes. Heard your voice on all your videos. It's an honor and a pleasure to finally meet you.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Well, I'm excited to be working with you and, yeah, you mentioned you have a deal. Also got Chris on here right now.
Hey, Chris.
Hey, Richard. Nice to meet you, man.
How are you, brother?
Good. Excited to work with you. You're crushing it.
Ever since I joined, I've just been so impressed with the gentlemen that you have connected with your group, especially Jaden. I think I started out with a young gentleman there. Oh, very wonderful gentleman. He's a pastor. Oh, my God. Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor.
Oh, yeah, yeah, Taylor.
Well, I just had such a pleasure and just conversing with each of them, and, you know, I can just feel the difference. I don't know if they've ever related our story to you, but, you know, we've been involved with several other groups and just, things just never panned out. Wrong people, wrong time, perhaps. You know, in the end, it was the big guy upstairs just leading me to here.
Amen. Awesome. Come on. Well, we're excited to have you, Richard. And definitely, definitely excited. I know that. Yeah. We've heard so many good things about you, and I'm excited to hear that you got a deal that you're looking at. Is that right? All right.
Yeah, there's several on the table there. One I presented, it was a 192 unit. I don't know if he told you, but I'm visually impaired. I'm completely blind. But the technologies on my phone, sometimes when I attempted to join in the past, especially from the app, it just isn't allowing me to go through for some reason. So I hope that we can come up with something where I can actually manipulate it and get through. Is. Is there a call in feature at all?
Sure there is. Yes.
I gotta say, it's just. This is just so different from all of the other interaction I had. I mean, my wife and I, we. The last group we were part of is that we followed their modules and everything, and we got ready to send out Lois, and we'd actually sent out a few. Several Lois. And then we needed advice about how to move into the contract phase and deal with earnest money deposits and things. And, you know, things that they said that they had all in house. When we started asking questions, we were left out in the middle of the ocean without a paddle.
So sorry to hear that.
It was crazy. And now that was embarrassing because brokers were looking at us like, you know, you said you had these people and they were going to help you do A, B, C, and D. And I've got the owner on like, we're waiting on you, sir.
Yeah.
It was so humiliating and embarrassing. Oh, my God. But, oh, man. You know, to this very day, we still haven't heard back from that.
Right.
I get a very different feel with you guys. It seems like you actually guys care about your people.
Yeah, well, the money's made in doing deals together. You know, we're not trying to make money off just telling people about it. We're doing deals with people. If it was just about making money through this, then we just stopped doing it and go back to doing what we were doing. Because these are some big deals, man. These are some big opportunities. So, yeah. Richard, I appreciate you sharing all that and looking forward to seeing you grow. And God bless your business and your family.
