Behind The Scenes Part 1 – Controlling What You Can Control

This is a brand new behind the scenes series from Value Investing Journey and Rivera Holdings.  In this series, I’ll show you behind the scenes some of the stuff my team and I are working on to get deals done and closed.

This will include the highs, lows, frustrations, and massive headaches along the way.

I’m sharing this with you to show you that not everything is always great and happy. Especially if you are an investor, entrepreneur and business owner. There will be struggle and there will be failure, but if you continue to persevere, there will also be triumphs as well.

In this series, I will show you deals from me helping clients buy and sell real estate, deals I’m working on myself in the public and private arenas, including potential real estate investments of mine, and more…

If you do like this kind of content, please let me know in the comments below or on social media, so I can continue doing these kinds of videos for you.

I hope you enjoy,

Jason

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I’ve always been a huge believer in controlling what you can control. Even as a kid, I always pushed myself harder than anyone else pushed me – sometimes to my detriment.

But this mindset has taken on a completely different tone since running my own businesses.

As a business owner, if you don’t do everything you can to get your name out there, find clients, close the deal, and then service those clients and make them happy, you won’t be in business for long.

Not only is this the proper mindset to have in business, but it can also be a huge competitive advantage as well. Because if you’re willing to help your client in any way possible that is feasible…they will also love you for life.

This is where we begin today’s post…

A couple weeks ago, I worked toward closing the sale of a $219,000 house I sold for a client. And in these next four weeks I’ll share with you the highs, lows, frustrations, and eventually how we got the deal closed for my client and the buyer of the home, after many last minute problems.

But before we get to that, I need to give you some context on how the deal got to this point…

I listed the home for sale for my client about a month before this and got a full price offer and the house went under contract after only 12 hours on the market.

Everything was going smoothly until the last 10 days of closing which is about where this first video below picks up.

The last 5% to 10% of ANYTHING is typically the hardest of any deal or process. But I had no idea this deal would end up where it did.

Let’s get to it.

In the video above I talk about how I’m willing to do just about anything within reason to get deals done for my clients.

This includes…

• How I deal with things out of my control
• Why I take control back when I can
• Why I don’t like leaving things in others hands when I can force a decision / answer / result
• Some of the things I did to get this deal done
• And more…

I thought this was the end of the story and the deal was going to close smoothly a few days later…

I was wrong.

From here, we took a crazy turn to something my broker has never seen in 20+ years in real estate.

Stay tuned for those posts.

And let me know your thoughts on controlling what you can control in the comments below.

And if you’re looking for more of my thoughts on this mental model check out Episode 3 of Value Investing In Your Car.

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