I have a bone to pick with all you self proclaimed “Average People”! You all seem to think only the wealthy invest in real estate.

I’m talking to you. The guy who works in IT, the nice HR lady, or the people serving food in the cafeteria! I’m even talking to you 50 yr old office manager and everyone in between!

When I meet with people the topic of “how we make a living” always comes up. It’s just part of the M.O. of small talk. It usually goes great until I mention that I own multiple single family homes as investments and I plan on investing in many many more!

The most common responses I hear are:

• That’s scary.
• You can’t do that at your age.
• What happens when the economy crashes like back in 2008?
• I can’t afford that my credit is terrible.
• That’s too complicated.
• Only the wealthy invest in real estate and you need to have money to make money.

I am average!

I’m going to be blunt with you. That’s a cop-out! I know because I have said many of those same things before I decided to try something different. Not until I stopped acting like I knew it all did I seriously take the opportunity to investigate and explore exactly what I can do and what steps I can take to accomplish my financial goals.

I decided that I owe it to myself and my future family (I didn’t have a wife and kids at the time.) to be teachable, learn to follow strategic guidance, and never give up! This conscious choice coupled with an amazing team of mentors and professionals have enabled me to DO exactly what my financial and investing game plan outlined!

It didn’t happen over night by any means. I actually found, researched, and hired my power team of professionals two years before I transacted my very first real estate deal! This was no get rich quick infomercial! It’s called having a plan and working the plan! Like a farmer planting crops, it’s predictable and is really simple. The best part is I don’t have to be an expert in every aspect in order to succeed!

During those two years I was being educated and advised on how to structure my personal finances so that when the time came to invest I could seize the opportunity! That’s exactly what I did.

Working full-time and going to school full-time with two years worth of tax returns saved up I was now ready to buy my first house! It was truly inspiring and it reaffirmed the principle of plan your work and work your plan! It was working!

So what’s with the title of this article?

I was on my LinkedIn account and saw an article titled Millionaires See Real Estate As Top Investment for 2014. I was naturally interested to I stopped by to read it. I would invite you to do the same.

Why am I talking about it here? The article focuses on the reasons the wealthy are pouring investment money into real estate here in the United States. While I was reading the article those same excuses I hear all the time from “average” people started flooding my mind.

I learned long ago that those thoughts don’t serve my goals very well. So I rehashed in my mind one of my favorite thoughts! “If they are successful then I need to DO what they are doing”! This recurring thought has been there every time I hear myself or someone else starting to cop-out with “average people” excuses.

Behold the Power of Average!

Last summer my brother sent me an email with a link to an article entitled The surprising architects of the Phoenix “miracle”.  This article unveils the sheer unexpected power of average mom and pop investors. I thoroughly enjoyed the article and I’ll tell you why!

You see, I’m average. My father, mother, brothers, sister and friends are all pretty much average too. It’s great to be average! Some of us average people DID what the wealthy DO. Our team helped us acquire single family homes in Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV, Indianapolis, IN, Utah, and  Orlando, FL  at steep discounts and they did all the work!

We “Average People” have done and are doing what the wealthy people do to create and grow wealth! After all is said and done, we are still average! But I no longer have to stress about my retirement like the “average” American.

So stick around, investigate, explore, and decide to take the first steps on your journey and get your very own Free Game Plan like I did!

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The Wealthy Invest In Real Estate By Joe Nielsen