Is master leasing the master key to success?

    So the other day I asked Syed, probably the person closest to my goals, how to get to 100 units. I asked him what was the most important thing, and he replied without hesitation.

Relationships with landlords.

It makes sense. If I can go to one person for a lot of units, and have a good relationship with them, then I don't have to go out to find new apartments. Perhaps this is a bottle neck which I have overlooked.

And by having a good relationship with the landlords, I would have repeating good deals with them. Speaking of which, I should go back to read on doing negotiations.

As long as I can maintain a stellar record, which makes me think the sooner the better, the faster I can build a reputation with them.


So is networking the key to success? I remember hearing that before on a short video clip. A guy asking what the most important thing is to become a billionaire. And the billionaire said "networking networking and networking" something like that.

I can see how this would be a compounding return. And they say the birds of a feather flock together. So not only would I be getting good deals, I would be networking with high status people and that would be my reference point. I would build a great reputation, and such landlords would reference me. It's starting to make more and more sense.

I do believe that networking is one of my stronger suits and I have been somewhat neglecting of it.

I should go back to it and really press on it. Leverage it.

Today I made a meet up of business networking. Let's see how that goes first.

Perhaps if I can make some type of movement here in Europe regarding the real estate, and leverage social media, that could be a powerful thing.

There must be something great about the real estate market here if it is attracting foreign investors from China and Israel...

Things are getting interesting. I should look into master leasing.





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