How This Air Force Officer Funds His Real Estate Deals

March 12, 2021

About This Episode

Blake Dailey was fairly new to real estate investing when he went through the 30 Days to $500k Challenge.

Yet he was still able to tap into a ton of private funding.

(I won’t give away the exact amount here, but it was close to the $500,000 number!)

A big part of his success had to do with making himself “uncomfortable.”

This is one of the tactics I teach in the Challenge.

And it’s not the only one you’ll hear about in this video.

I’m hanging out with Blake and sharing a couple of the techniques from the $500k Challenge that you can use to get all the private funding you need to buy houses without using your own money…

Listen in now!

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