Kim Lisa TaylorSecurities Attorney, Founder, Syndication Attorneys, PLLC · Corporate Securities Attorney, 2x Best-Selling Author, Nationwide Speaker | Private Placement

How to Network for Real Estate Investing: Share Opportunities, Not Money Requests 💡💼

25 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker, an introverted real estate investor, recounts early struggles attending business meetings and meetups before they were common. Initially, she approached networking by directly asking for money to fund deals, which felt uncomfortable and ineffective. Through trial and error, she realized that framing conversations around shared investment opportunities rather than monetary requests leads to more authentic connections. She emphasizes the importance of regularly sourcing contacts from one's existing database and proactively engaging in events, even when feeling hesitant, to build a pipeline of mutually beneficial deals.

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You've got to, you got to be out there sourcing people inside of your database on a regular basis. You know, when I was cutting my teeth, I was going to every business meeting and they didn't have meetups back then. And I hated it because I'm an introvert, you know, total introvert. And then I realized that, you know, I was asking for money. You got any money for me? I got to close this deal. And then I realized that, you know, instead of asking for money, it was actually a conversation that I had in my head because I would actually drive to some meetings and I wouldn't go in. So I was outside of one event and I'm saying to myself, My one brain saying, you know, you gotta go in there, you need to raise some money for this event. It's like, yeah, but you know, you've gotta get in there and you've gotta do what you gotta do, you know, so you can. And all of a sudden, uh, the other brain's like, just go in there and tell 'em that, you know, talk about your opportunities and don't ask for money.