Writing a book can help you attract private money lenders and motivated sellers so you could win the marketing game in real estate. Today’s guest, Max Keller, proves that. Max Keller is a real estate investor, best-selling author, and business coach. In this episode, he joins Keith Baker to discuss utilizing books as a lead generation technique and how to get prospective sellers to trust you so you could stand out among competitors. He also shares the two ways to get deals through hunting and trapping. He explains how he gets deals through the use of different methods giving them a network of people. Tune into this episode so you could have the opportunity to build great relationships and make your business grow too!

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Utilizing Real Estate Books For Lead Generation And Beating Competition With Max Keller

Max Keller Utilizes Books To Get Sellers To Know, Like And Trust Him

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In this episode, I sit down and talk with Max Keller, who’s up in the North Texas area, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Max is using a very unusual strategy for finding his deals and that is to use books to get his sellers to know, like and trust him. Before we dive into the heart of this episode, I got to do a little housekeeping and need to ask you, have you joined the show’s Facebook group? Why the hell not? Simply go to Facebook Groups and search for Private Lender Podcast.

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Max Keller was recommended to me by someone I held dear in the podcast industry. Julie Houston, thank you. She has helped me out in ways, mindset, technical, process, things that I wouldn’t think of. She hasn’t charged me a dime for it. All of her advice has been for free, maybe a lunch or two here or there. Considering the value that I’ve received from Julie, I’m in the deficits. Julie, thank you. A big shout out to you. Thank you for introducing me to Max.

This has been a game changer in many ways for me. Thinking about this helps expand the mindset into what’s out there. I’m babbling already. It’s best to get to the interview, let Max discuss and describe how he uses books and how he’s helping his students to get some solid leads, generating some nice leads for some nice property acquisition. Let’s go ahead and jump into the interview with Max Keller.

Lender Nation, I am pleased to have Max Keller on the show, who was formerly a teacher and now is a full-time real estate investor but more importantly, he can teach you how to write a book. Max, welcome to the show.

It’s good to be here. Let’s go.

You come highly recommended from a friend of mine. That gets to the door but the fact that you were a teacher, that's something I've always wanted to do. Hence with the Private Lender Academy, I'm finally coming to get to that point. My path is a little bit reversed from yours. Tell me what brought you to this moment here on the show. How'd you get to the world of real estate and books?

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I hear that phrase, “Overnight success, lifetime in the making.” That's the way it feels. Everything that I did build on itself. Before I was in real estate full-time, I was an Algebra teacher at a Title 1 school. I coached football, basketball and track. I taught algebra and I loved it. The only thing is I wanted to make more income. My goal was to take a more passive approach and get maybe 1 or 2 rentals a year. If I stayed on that pattern, then at the end of finishing up teaching and retiring, I'd have a nice little nest egg. Going in real estate, I started realizing that it's a great way to increase your active income and start doing more deals.

I left my job years ago. The day after Memorial Day, I told my principal, “I wasn't coming back.” It was a tough decision but it's been great. I've flipped about 130 houses lately because of where the prices have been. We'd done mostly wholesaling but deals in Texas still cashflow, especially mobile homes and things like that. I've been doing investing. On the borrowing side, I did the normal progression. My first deal was a self-funded whole tale. I took it down with a line of credit. The houses were a lot cheaper than in 2015. I cleaned it up a little. I sold it. I made $15,000 and that was cool. I wanted to do it again.

The next deal, I took it down with that same line of credit but then once I had another deal, I couldn't keep doing that. My credit was good. That helped. It's funny. My credit was so good because I never used it. It's like, “What a weird system?” It was fine. I went to a community credit bank like credit union kind of thing, local bank and that worked good. I did a couple of deals like that. I was running out and they wanted me to jump through a lot of hoops. I went hard money. I did hard money for my flip deals for a while. I got involved and started meeting some local private money lenders. I love working with them. It was fun. I got to show them my deals. Some of them had a lot of experience. Some of them didn't have very much at all.

Being a teacher, which has the teacher mindset, I'd say, “Come and check out. Let's not rush. Come and see one of my properties over here in Hearst. I'm doing this one. Check it out. I've got one over here in Irving.” I explained to him how it worked. It was hard because I'm a people pleaser. I liked my hard money lender. It was expensive. It wasn't as much flexibility and I wanted to have more long-term stuff too. I knew private lenders were looking to find good people, good deals and make good rates of return.

I started using books and things like that. That was a total unknown but I started using books as an education piece to attract more private money lenders and motivated sellers. The overall model of how I got here is I taught before I got in here and I still do. That's the best way to build relationships, help people and make the business grow. I'm glad that I still get to do that. It's fun.

I'm glad to know that, one, you taught algebra. God bless you. What grades? I'm curious.

It was the eighth if they were ahead and then ninth on grade. I had one group of kids that were two years behind. They should have been juniors. It depends on how you are as a student. Let's say it like this. When you go to teach and you go to the job fair, there's elementary, middle school and high school. The elementary line, there are 400 people in it. All these people who've been waiting their whole lives to be kindergarten teachers.

You go to high school line. Those are people with a lot of experience. They love their subjects. In middle school, junior high, there's nobody. If you have middle school kids of your own or cousins, you'll know but I liked it. What I liked about working with kids is the same thing I like with the people that I work within real estate. I like working with people that tell the truth. Kids, believe it or not, they almost always tell the truth. I remember one time I went to class. My hair spiked up. I thought I was looking cool and on trend. The kids shut that down in three seconds like, “Mr. Keller, we can see all the way through to your scalp.” That's the way kids are.

Adults aren't always like that. From my own experience, it's important that I get to know the people I'm working with. On the other side, your readers, it's super important that they understand what's a good deal and what's not a good deal before they invest in it. Are they getting in with the right person? There's a lot of sleek talking people. Adults aren't always truthful. We got to find who's telling the truth. Who's doing what they say they're doing before we invest in the deals. That's a piece of teaching that I b...