Brian Adamson grew up in Detroit. Blue collar family. Dad was a firefighter, mom was a cashier at a grocery store for over 25 years.
Work ethic was never gonna be an issue for Brian.
But his understanding of money was flawed. Grind, earn it, hold onto it. That’s what his folks had taught him.
He would later discover, wait a minute, you can invest your money in real estate and multiply it? Well that sounded better to him.
The ah-ha moment happened in college. Junior year.
One of Brian’s buddies was flipping houses. He was telling Brian how this one couple wanted to buy one of his flips but they couldn’t come up with the down payment.
Brian offered to help out.
He had just gotten a $7,000 college refund check. So he loaned ’em the money, got paid back with interest.
Brian knew right then and there, he was gonna be a real estate investor.
Luckily, though, he still got his degree. It came in handy when the ’08 crash happened. He got a job working in corporate America, a job he ended up keeping for 11 years.
But he never gave up on real estate. All the while he was investing on the side.
There were plenty of ups and downs but by the end of that 11-year run working for the man, he was making in a month what took him an entire year to make at his 9-5.
So he quit, scaled up his investments, and now he’s taking everything he’s learned, packaging it up and sharing it with others inside his iFlip Mastery Program.
“We teach people how to invest in real estate remotely so they can buy their time back,” Brian explains.
“It’s not that you can’t do it in your back yard but we open you up to the realm of possibilities that exist beyond your back yard,” he clarifies.
“And, coupled with that, we show you how to use other people’s money. Ninety percent of our students are doing deals with no money outta pocket; same way I approach my business.”
Even though Brian’s got plenty of money today he still prefers to raise capital and find partnerships over cutting checks. He wants to show his mentees that you just have to be resourceful.
“But we’re not a one-trick pony,” he’ll have you know.
“We teach wholesale, fix and flip and cash flow.”
“Not that you need to use all three, but you’ll have the working knowledge of how all three work so that at any point in time in your career, if you find a deal to be more advantageous for one of those processes, you can pivot and do that.”
“Whereas, most people throw so many opportunities away because they don’t know what to do with ’em,” he adds.
The goal is to make you as well-rounded as possible. So that you can make money just about every time you touch a deal, even when it doesn’t fit your normal criteria.
To learn more, attend Brian’s iFlip Masterclass, enroll in his next iFlip Challenge or upgrade to his iFlip Mastery Program.
Is he concerned now’s not the time to get into real estate?
“Pfft,” he laughs. “My concern is if you don’t start now, you gonna get left behind. That’s my only concern.”
“Because when real estate is at its worst, it’s at its best. The opportunities are even better, right?”
“You just need to switch your perspective.”
“But at the same time, you need to know how to move during tricky times like this.”
“And that’s why you need a mentor,” he ends with.
What do I think?
I think real estate investing today is for try-hards. I’d rather type words online and trade bitcoin on a jet ski in Miami.