Danielle Nicole

I get to have the best experiences! So grateful.

Happy Birthday to meeeeeee!
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Hey Internet friend,

Just dropping in to let you all know about some of the changes I've made and additional changes to come.

First, I'm done with courses/coaching around property preservation and tax lien investing. I'm also done with Q/A sessions, webinars, consultations etc. You may still see some content here and there until I scrub my pages over the next few weeks.

My heart just isn't in it anymore and hasn't been for a while now. I've spent a lot of time thinking about why and there's a few main reasons...

1. I have outgrown the property preservation industry. Yes, it's still a decent option for folks that want to do the work themselves and are working with the right company. However, I, just don't have the enthusiasm or desire for the industry that I once did. It's been a STRUGGLE trying to regain that initial enthusiasm. I've had to accept that that era has passed for me. It was a great run!

2. I haven't outgrown tax lien and tax deed investing in the same way. I still buy properties this way and plan to continue to do as long as I can. I have, however, outgrown talking about it to an audience of people. Like, I just legitimately want to do my own research, buy my own properties and mind my own business.

3. Coaching is different in the post pandemic world. We've all been scammed. We've all paid money and regretted it. We're all jaded. We're all sick of funnels. We tied of upsells, free bonuses, free gifts and other over used marketing strategies. The requirements to be a genuine great coach that helps clients to get results are far beyond what they used to be.
In other words, people are 10x more hesitant to part with their hard earned money - as they should be! It takes a massive amount of effort, time and money to convert prospects into paying clients these days. I've had to be 100% honest with myself to admit that I just DO NOT want to do that amount of work. I can just as easily redirect that energy into myself and my children. This may sound selfish or lazy lol but either way, it's what I'm finna do and what I've been doing.

4. What this really boils down to is my own desire to simply be accountable for myself and my immediate family. Coaching/courses is a lot of work, a lot of responsibility and comes with a lot of people kinda pulling at you 24/7. Each of us has our own baggage, trauma, fears etc that we carry and when you're trying to coach someone through something, all of that stuff is innately a part of the deal. Yes, there's all types of automation and virtual assistants and software etc but ultimately people want to connect with other people. I get it. I can relate to just about everyone's life situations having been through a bunch of traumatic experiences myself. So, when a client is going through a divorce, breakup, domestic violence, sibling trauma, bankruptcy, medical issues etc, I've always been able to hear, relate and share some tips I used along the way to keep going. So, what started out as business coaching morphs into a little bit of trauma bonding, therapy sessions and life coaching. It's a lot.
Hopefully those explanations provided above are received with the same warm energy and appreciation in which it was written.

So, what's next?

Well, I still plan to buy more businesses. The DOT clinic I own in Arlington, TX has now added DNA testing and that's been a great addition so far. Of course, I'ma still buy tax lien and tax deed properties. Lastly, I plan to get into land flipping. I'll be buying cheap land and selling it with owner financing via low down payments and low monthly payments. I'm pretty excited about that.

If you're not interested in buying land with seller financing, then it's time for us to part ways, my friend. Land sales is my current focus area. As soon as I figure out how to structure the contracts, I'll be selling some of the land I own in Chicago, Colorado, Memphis and Indiana. Speaking of courses and coaching, there is a land flipping bootcamp I've found for $12K but I'ma pass on it for now lol. I can buy a whole bunch of land for 12 racks. Ta-Ta.

Good luck to you!

Wanna know the secret sauce to real estate investing?

There ain’t none!

There’s no FREE money being handed out to real estate investors.

👉🏾No one is going to “fund” your real estate deals, allowing you to profit tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for NOTHING.

👉🏾The overwhelming majority of the down payment programs, grant programs and renovation loan programs are for OWNER OCCUPANTS!

👉🏾You won’t get tens of thousands of dollars of business credit UNLESS you already have great personal credit to guarantee the loans.

🔐Say it with me: the root word to “investor” is INVEST.

In other words, the expectation is that you have money and/or credit to *invest* in order to build your real estate portfolio.

Every “no money down” deal was funded by somebody, somewhere otherwise, it wouldn’t qualify as a deal.

The “research” that you’re doing looking for FREE money is wasting your time…

Once you accept that you're going to have to have some skin in the game in order to get started, you will make quantum leaps as an investor.

Like most things, it really does come down to the basics: money and credit. Ta-Ta

Owning a home isn’t the sure fire way to build wealth based on current market conditions BUT if you follow one simple rule, you’ll still be aight!

That rule is this: BUY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD WHERE YOU CAN AFFORD IT.

Of course, buying what you can afford means that you may not be in your dream home in your dream city.

But, you know what makes up for that?
💰Not being over leveraged.
💰Not being house poor.
💰Being able to afford furniture in your house is also pretty nice too.

So, instead of Dallas, Houston or Austin, maybe you’re in Terrell or Red Oak Texas.

Instead of Chicago, maybe you’re in Kankakee, Peoria or Champaign.

You get the idea.

Y’all there are BEAUTIFUL homes and neighborhoods in so many pockets around the country.

Just like the stock market, buying at the level where YOU can comfortably afford is always gonna be a cheat code.

The reverse is also true. Mess around and buy at the top end of the market and at the top of your budget and you’re gonna be forever anxious about interest rates, insurance and property taxes. And, of course, if you really get into tax liens, tax deeds or land bank properties in these lower priced cities, you’ll unlock a new level of house affordability.

But, you lemme know what you think.

Are you team “I ain’t ever leaving my city” or team “I’m gonna go where my money can take me?”

When women talk about “BIG DADDY ENERGY” this is what we talm bout! 😍

🚫 No, son, you ain’t gotta get it out the mud.

✅ Yes, I’m gonna use my brand, wealth, celebrity and network of uber wealthy folks to pull all the strings!

✅ Son, I’m willing to show you exactly how it’s done, in front of the whole world, AND I’m gonna be right at your side.

🔑 You may not be qualified in the eyes of the world, but you are MY SON and I SAID you're already qualified. FWTTB

Nepotism just means FAVOR...

Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that nepotism is one of the biggest generational wealth hacks. Build something, grant favor to your friends and family and let's end the cycle of each generation starting over at ground zero.

I’ve been studying insurance off and on for a few years now. Like many things, it’s a rabbit hole where it’s easy to get lost between myths, assumptions, facts and feelings.

For the record, I’ll say that most people need *some* type of insurance. Whether that’s term, whole life, IUL or something else depends upon your personal financial situation, personal goals.

I can promise you there is no one size fits all.

You can have insurance AND own real estate, AND buy stocks AND buy apartment buildings AND buy businesses AND invest in a Roth AND trade crypto or futures or whatever else you want.

You can also NOT have insurance and live a happy life also lol. If what you’re doing ain’t broke, then no need to fix it! 🙂

For myself, I think of a good, well-written insurance policy as nothing more than the foundation of a house. Dass it.

To keep it all the way real, I have whole life policies for my children right now that make me cringe a lil bit when I pay them each month lol. But, I see the long term vision and we gonna make it do what it do for now.

Anyhoo, this book by Kim Butler is a ONE day read and it’s sooooo good!

Here’s 7 benefits of cash value, dividend paying whole life insurance that she talks about in the book:

💰 You can move large sums of money into private, secure, tax-advantaged environments without government restrictions and contribution limits.
💰 You can take the money out without meeting age requirements, paying penalties, asking for permission or proving what you want the money for.
💰 Cash value accounts and their growth are NOT reported to the IRS, nor are they counted as “assets” on a FAFSA student aid application.
💰 Policy loans require no credit qualification and never show up on your credit report.
💰 There are no income taxes on the cash value within the policy, as long as you don’t cancel the policy, of course.
💰 Policy loans DO NOT reduce any social security benefits you receive.
💰 If and when you need it, your money is liquid within about 10 days for you to withdraw or borrow against. Or, you can just let it grow.

This book is just 63 pages long and I love how much information she provides in such a short time frame. She’s definitely biased towards a particular type of insurance, but I encourage you to take what resonates and leave what doesn’t resonate. I’ve read plenty of these books and I learn something new from each and every perspective.

If you have money sitting around in an insurance policy or somewhere else and you’d like to buy real estate, I can show you how and where to do so. Ta-Ta

I watched this IG reel where .lisa shared 8 ways to know if you’re addicted to cortisol.

Here’s the 8 ways:

✅always checking your phone for messages, emails and calls
✅scrolling on social media in the middle of a task…ya know, like DRIVING!!!
✅feeling uneasy with free time
✅comparing yourself to others and feeling bad
✅constantly feeling rushed, irritated and treating small things like urgent disasters
✅feeling guilty for not being “productive”
✅no time for self care
✅feeling tired and overwhelmed on most days of the week

After watching this video, I came up with one more potential sign of a cortisol addiction which is this: working towards a goal that you’ve set for yourself, self sabotaging, followed by either changing the end goal or doubling down to knock out the original goal.

I do this SO MUCH and I’ve always thought this was just due to low motivation, laziness, and/or lack of effort. I realized just today that, for me, this is probably due to an addiction to high stress situations. Like, I’m addicted to working extra hard to meet deadlines. I’m addicted to the feeling of working against the clock and coming through in the nick of time. Or, just addicted to feeling like a hero in my own stories.

I remember I started the year determined to write online every day for the whole year. Then, I changed it to writing in my journal. Then, I changed that to just *thinking* about writing LOL.
I told my daughter the other day that I wanted her to learn how to set and keep her personal goals vs being a person that changed the end goal once her motivation wore off.

I really do get on my own nerves cuz I realized, yet AGAIN that I better start taking my own advice!

Just like the great American philosopher Glorilla says: “at the end of the day, the day gotta end.” 🥴

One of the hardest things to understand as an adult is the fact that you could really, really want to be a great parent, great spouse or great business owner and STILL be doing a sh*tty job at the same time.

This is especially true if you feel like you've been "trying" for 10, 20 or 30 years at doing something. You convince yourself that you HAVE to be making progress because you've been "working" on it for years. You confuse the passage of time with progress because that's easier to face than admitting that you are still stuck at first base.

The truth is this: the person running on the treadmill will get just as tired as the person running outside. They're both expending effort. But, only one of them is actually moving towards a destination.

It ain't nothing worse than waking up one day in your 40s and realizing that YOU are the person on the treadmill. Whew! For me, it feels kinda like a mini death...I've had more than a few lol.

As you get older and try even harder, you then become convinced that your lack of progress is everybody else's fault. In other words, can't nobody tell you s**t because now you have 20 years of "experience" running in place which you still keep confusing with progress at yo big age!!!

If you haven't seen the results you want, you might be on the treadmill. No matter how many years it's been, the best way forward is to just admit that you do not know know what to do and you never did.

It's never too late to learn.

***I'm talking to and about myself as I almost always do***

Go argue with your liver.

Ta-Ta

Did you know that a 2,300 cubic yard debris removal at $75 bucks per cubic yard comes out to a $172,500 lump sum payday? Pretty cool, right?

Plus, you have up to 45 days to complete the job.

The picture below is a real solicitation from an air force base in San Angelo, TX which is due on June 7th. Fun Fact: the requirements to bid on janitorial, debris removal and cleaning services for the government are almost identical to the requirements that you need to get started in property preservation. The only difference is that you’ll need an active SAM registration to bid on government contracts. It’s simple enough to obtain once you have an actual business.

I created a FREE 5 Day Property Preservation Challenge for those wanting to launch a preservation/field services business in the next 14 days.

👉🏾The challenge is quick.
👉🏾It’s easy to follow.
👉🏾It has minimal fluff.
👉🏾4 of the 5 videos are less than 10 minutes. The Day 5 video is exactly 16 minutes and 54 seconds.

I set this up this way because I personally hate long, drawn out, “empowering” challenges and I know many folks in my tribe feel the same way lol. I empower folks by outlining the action steps to take. The rest is up to you, of course.

If you can follow the steps in the challenge, you will be ready to apply for your SAM registration to bid on government contracts.

Or, you can simply opt to work on single family residential properties. The choice is up to you.

You’ll receive the first set of challenge instructions about 5 minutes after completing the form below. May the odds be ever in your favor. :) Registration link in comments.

Bye for now,

In working with my client Ashley today, we discovered that vacant land in Houston is selling like hotcakes.

I'm talking about small 3,000 SF lots selling for $75K 😮

Pretty cool, right?

We created a list of vacant lots that she'll be bidding on for the June 4th sale in Harris County, Texas. The minimum bids for these lots ranged from around $3K to $10K.

Now, we can't predict what the actual sales price will be, but I'll be sure to circle back witcha and let you know.

Just wanted to drop in and let you know that land in Houston is looking pretty good right now. Check into it if you're into flipping land.

So, Dallas, TX has a Land Bank program with a twist. It’s primarily open to experienced developers only that plan to build affordable housing. By “experience” they want folks who’ve developed at least 1 property in the last 3 years or so.

It’s also possible to just buy vacant lots through their Land Bank also.

Dallas, like many metropolitan cities, is undergoing a massive shift in property values, particularly in South Dallas. You can literally drive through and see $500K properties one block from $10,000 properties.

Their website is janky and doesn’t have any pricing lol BUT you can submit an application for any of the listings as long as you pay the $300 application fee.

Lemme know what you think. Bye for now.