The basic principal behind finding great real estate investing partners: BE the partner you hope to have. You need business partners to make it in real estate investing – not just good business partners, but great business partners.

Bring to the table not just your skills or money, but your personal integrity and your commitment to your partners and to the project. As others observe you living these qualities, as they see your self-confidence, people who also live up to these high ideals will be more interested in working in real estate investment partnerships with you.

How do you find and attract the best people to work with you for mutual profits? Is it attending every meeting of the Kiwanis and the City Council – becoming known in the real estate investing field – gaining more credentials from schools and accreditations? Although those may be important steps to making connections, you will merely be one of dozens if you rely on that alone.

The best way to attract great business partners is to show yourself to BE a great business partner.

• Prove that you have what it takes to find the deals and turn them for a profit, and be honest and fair while doing it. Follow through on every commitment.

• Take care of every investment partner’s capital as if it were your grandmother’s money.

• Communicate; don’t leave anyone hanging wondering what you are up to.

• Thoroughly demonstrate your follow-through once you’ve won the opportunity to prove yourself on a first deal, and on every deal.

• Sell yourself, always, as you are your own best product!

Here is a tip about people in a position to become great business partners: They know dozens of people; they meet hundreds of people; but they meet and know only a few who have what it takes to be a great business partner. Regardless of whether you are starting out with very little in the way of assets or background, or a proven producer with piles of wealth, if you have the qualities of integrity, energy, commitment, and you deliver on your promises, then you are a rare and valued partnership candidate!

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