Check out Ron’s victory speech below…

Congratulations to Ron… way to go Probate Guy!

The 2010 Final Standings

1) Ron Mead, The Probate Guy – 2010 Champ – 251 Votes
2) Steph Davis – 189
3) Julie Broad (’09 Champ) – 154
4) JP Moses – 148
5) Craig Fuhr – 120
6) Patrick Riddle (aka Sergeant P-Rid) – 65
7) Shae Bynes – 22
8) J Scott – 20
(less than 20 votes)
9) Jamel Gibbs
10) Alex Joungblood
11) Rachel Hernandez
12) Peter Kolat
13) Scott Costello

Now, let’s give a round of applause for all the excellent REI Bloggers! You guys and gals pour your hearts into your blogs… and the 1000+ votes below are a testament to that!

AND, a BIG THANKS to everyone who voted. It means a TON to us bloggers…. we salute you :-)

It’s been my pleasure to host another great REI blog battle.

That’s it for ol’ Sergeant P-Rid.

See y’all next year for the 3rd annual battle. It’s gonna be big!

~ Sarge

P.S. – Are you an REI Blogger? Interested in participating in next year’s battle? If so, leave a comment below with your name and link to your blog.

P.P.S. – If you voted for Ron, Steph, or Julie, you’re in contention to win one of those Private Money Blueprint Training Systems. Good luck!

Julie Broad
Life As Real Estate Investors

Real estate investing live and on location across north america. Videos, tips, and resources to help you invest successfully in any city!

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Ron Mead
Buy Probate Property

If the coffee I’m drinkin’ and what I’m just thinkin’ or your just a winkin’, then we’d better say bye, cause I’m just the Probate Guy!

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Steph Davis
Flip This Wholesaler

Rags to riches real estate: the daily musings of a bartender turned REO wholesaler …

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JP Moses
REI tips

Imagine Real Estate Investing…Undressed. It’s practical, real & “Average Joe” friendly. Stop by & grab my 53 Free REI Forms on the house!

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PATRICK RIDDLE
Must Know Investing

Your Source for Creative Real Estate Investing Tips, Tools, and Techniques… and Host of Battle of the REI Blogs.

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Shae Bynes
Good Faith Investing

Shae seeks to inspire and inform with stories from the streets. Some even call it chicken soup for the real estate investor’s soul. :-)

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Peter Kolat
Real Estate Internet Marketing

Real Estate Internet Marketing Blog-FREE 56 pg. Real Estate Black Book-The Only Place to Get Secret Internet Marketing Strategies For FREE.

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Jamel Gibbs
REI Education Academy

FREE 5 Part Crash Course on Wholesaling Houses provided by the Jamel Gibbs. Discover Pure Real Estate Investing AWESOMENESS.

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Rachel Hernandez
Adventures in Mobile Homes

Sharing stories and adventures about investing in mobile homes. Learn from Rachel – aka Mobile Home Gurl – who specializes in this niche!

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Scott Costello
Struggling to Get Started

A Nine-to-Fiver overcoming fears and a lack of time. No tips, tricks or fast profits here, just every day experiences from a new investor.

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J Scott
1-2-3 Flip

123Flip.com brings you the nitty-gritty of a real life house flipper, including detailed financials, schedules and results down to the penny.

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Craig Fuhr
SurReal Estate Success

Craig Fuhr is a super-star investor & premier rehabber. His blog is a daily stream of insanely fun & real-life RE Investing tips & videos.

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Alex Joungblood
Wholesaling Houses in Real Time

A full time wholesaler making it happen in a down real estate market. How you can still make a full time income wholesaling houses.

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Alrighty…

Here’s a quick recap of the contest rules from the video above:

1) Contest starts October 18th and ends at midnight EST on October 21st.

2) You must be 18 years or older to participate.

3) Pick your favorite real estate investing blogger.

4) VOTE by entering the name of your favorite blogger in the comment area below (only 1 vote allowed per person… violators will be disqualified).

And check out the prizes…

1st place blogger gets to award 5 of their voters a FREE Private Money Blueprint Training System ($997).

2nd and 3rd place get to award 1 of their voters a FREE Private Money Blueprint Training System.

So, we’re giving away almost $7,000 in real estate investing education… and you could win by simply voting below.

Scroll to the bottom of the screen now and put your favorite REI blogger in the comment area. And remember, only 1 vote per person.

Thanks for joining this year’s Battle :-)

May the best REI blogger win,

Patrick Riddle
… aka Sergeant P-Rid

P.S. If you think this contest is pretty cool, click the Facebook “Like” button at the top of the post and share it with your friends :-)

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Wow! It sure is amazing how time flies, isn’t it?

Sooooo much has happened in only a year …

2009 Kicked off with the Creative Real Estate Solutions in Today’s Market Video Series, then MustKnowInvesting.com turned 1, Trevor Mauch and I launched our Private Money Blueprint System (Holy Cow! What an Undertaking!), the Battle of the REI Blogs, and MUCH MORE.

Thank goodness I decided to get my butt out of bed this past weekend and go to church. That’s where I got the idea to do this post because they put together a “year in review” video with all the highlights of 2009. So, I thought it would be really cool to do a post called …

A Year in the Life of MustKnowInvesting.com

Let’s just jump right in … here we go …

The “Creative Real Estate Solutions in Today’s Market” Video Series

We kicked off the year in January with the Creative Real Estate Solutions in Today’s Market video series (over 2 1/2 hours of solid content). It was a 5 part in depth video series on wholesaling, private money, subject tos, owner financing, and much more. And at the end of the series, we took on a very limited number of students in our mentoring program.

One of those students, Justin Wilmot, a twenty somthin’ self proclaimed surfer dude from Florida, had quite the year; he closed his first wholesale deal, locked up a million dollar credit line through a private money lender, and closed his first rehab deal. To say Justin’s life will never be the same would be quite the understatement.

Happy B-Day!

On January 19th 2009, my baby, MustKnowInvesting.com turned 1. It was a great day, a milestone, an accomplishment. Few people (other than fellow bloggers) realize how much work goes into maintaining an active blog.

Thousands of hours have been poured into the idea and implementation of everything you see, read, listen to, and watch here. To see my blog grow and mature over that first year was awesome (and now my baby is almost 2 … whew … children sure to grow up fast … haha)

The Private Money Blueprint

For the next few months, I published 2 to 3 new articles and videos per week and spent countless hours, nights, weekends preparing for our Private Money Blueprint launch.

Let me give ya a little back story …

Trevor Mauch and I had partnered up in August of ‘08 to teach people how to get private money. We taught a couple free 100% content webinars and there was a HUGE demand for more information. So, we created a pilot program to teach 20 lucky students how to get unlimited funds for their real estate deals using private money.

After the program finished, our students raved; they wanted more.

Next, we wrote the home study manual (an arduous task), commissioned Trevor’s web guy to put the private lending websites together (an expensive task), built the Private Money Blueprint Membership site (another big task), and put together a plan to launch our private money getting system in May (a “thank goodness we hired help” task … thanks @ChrisBrisson).

Whew … I get tired just thinking about all that stuff.

Anyway, much time was spent on the Private Money Blueprint project (which was birthed from MustKnowInvesting.com) and it all culminated in May when we launched; quite the accomplishment.

The icing on the cake has been the amazing results our students have gotten from our system. It’s so awesome opening up my email each morning to find another success story from a student.

The Investor Connect Contest

After things settled down from the launch, I wasn’t sure what my next “little project” would be. I had a few ideas but nothing slapped me across my face UNTIL … I had the idea for the Battle of the REI Blogs contest (more on that in a little bit).

So, in preparation for “battle”, I decided to run a small contest on my blog to get my feet wet, to learn the ropes. There was a bunch of awesome prizes and a really cool “social” component to it.

I called it … The Investor Connect Contest.

The coolest thing about it, the winner of the contest Noel Roberts, closed his first deal just a few months thereafter. Check out the email he sent me recently …

Oh yeah, and to top it all off … Noel, aka Kid Cash Flow, is only 18 years old!

So whatever your excuse was for 2009 of why you didn’t close your first deal, or why you didn’t achieve your REI goals … might as well trash it. Noel didn’t have any of the “Big 3 C’s” … Cash, Credit, or Credibility … and it didn’t stop him.

My Short and Sweet Skateboarding Career

LOL … y’all got a good laugh at my expense on this one. Make sure you watch me drop into the half pipe at the 5 min 26 sec mark.

Click Here to Watch me bust my tail skateboarding

Be on the lookout for Part 2 to this one … coming soon in 2010 :)

How to Become a CIA: 7 Part Creative Real Estate Investing Series

This was all about getting you ready, willing, and able to close on your first or next deal by delivering the information, tools, and resources to get it done. There was the “CIA Manifesto”, video tutorials, downloads (MP3s, forms, etc), guest expert Stephani Davis from FlipthisWholesaler, Dusty Keefe, master negotiator, and MUCH MORE.

The participation and feedback during this series was absolutely incredible … thanks to all who participated and all who continue to study the series.

This free in depth creative real estate investing series is POWERFUL. If you haven’t taken this training yet, write it down on your list of goals for 2010.

Battle of the REI Blogs

With 13 of the top REI bloggers in the world on board, over 5,000 visits to my blog that week, and over 1,100 votes …

What a killer event the Battle of the REI Blogs turned out to be!

One of the funniest parts about it was the trash talking between the bloggers over on Facebook. Right before the battle began, I logged in to my FB account, and my profile had been decimated by the likes of JP Moses who posted a picture of a pumpkin throwing up with the caption, “The Effect Your Blog Has on People”, Trevor who posted a pic of a line graph showing how much more traffic his blog gets than everyone elses, and Stephani Davis who posted a pic that said, “My blog can beat up your blog” … haha.

It was on!

But, shortly after the Battle ensued, it was clear that Julie Broad and Ron Mead were the forces to reckoned  with. As they blew by the competition, the rest of us were scrambling to compete.

End of the day, when the smoke cleared, Julie Broad of RevNyou was crowned champion; Ron Mead, who made a valiant effort, brought home the silver.

Thanks once more to all the REI bloggers that competed AND to you, our subscribers for contributing your votes.

Oh yeah, one more thing … if you haven’t checked out The Ballad of the Battle of the REI Blogs yet, that’s a must watch. It’s my lyrical and piano playin’ debut … Enjoy!

Contributors from Around the Globe

A BIG thanks goes to all the contributors here at MustKnowInvesting.com. We appreciate all the tips, tools, and techniques you’ve shared with us.

Jamel Gibbs taught us how to flip for profits. David “The Diamond” Oswald showed us when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em and inspired us to take action. Shae Bynes shared how to network our way to wealth.

Julie Broad pulled back the curtain on finding hidden bargains, showed how to overcome obstacles, gave us the 10 commandments to negotiating great real estate deals (and much more … Julie was MKI’s biggest guest contributor).

Stephani Davis contributed in style with her Wholesaling 101 video as part of the How to Become a CIA series. And my bro (not literally … but might as well be), Dusty Keefe taught us how to negotiate like a pro in Part 2 of the CIA series and how to control real estate with zero liability in Part 7.

Happy New Year

It was an incredible year here at MustKnowInvesting.com, and it wouldn’t have been the same without ya :)

Thank you for your time, your attention, your contributions, your feedback.

Looking forward to a phenominal 2010 together.

Happy Investing!

~ Patrick Riddle … aka P-Rid

P.S. For all you social media heads out there, let’s connect. Here’s my links … follow me on Twitter, Friend me up on Facebook, Subscribe to my YouTube Channel.

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“Battle of the REI Blogs” 2009 CHAMPION

Watch the video below …

A HUGE congrats goes out to Julie Broad of RevNYou … Champion of the first annual “Battle of the REI Blogs” 2009.

Final “Battle of the REI Blogs” 2009 Standings

1) Our CHAMPION – Julie Broad – 256 Votes

2) Ron Mead – 228 Votes

3) Stephani Davis – 127 Votes

4) JP Moses – 113 Votes

5) Susan Lassiter-Lyons – 110 Votes

6) Sergeant P-Rid (yours truly) – 81 Votes

7) Trevor Mauch – 78 Votes

8) Shae Bynes

9) Peter Kolat

10) Jamel Gibbs

11) Larry Goins

12 & 13) Brian Evans and Ken Spohn

Thank you to all the real estate investing bloggers that participated! You guys and gals are awesome!

A BIG thanks to everyone that voted! The contest wouldn’t have been the same without each and every one of you …

We salute you … our readers, our subscribers, our watchers, our listeners … your success makes what we do worthwhile. Thanks!

It’s been pleasure hosting the first annual “Battle of the REI Blogs”!

BTW – I plan on bringing home the title next year! Soooooo watch out!

I’m outta here …

Sergeant P-Rid

P.S. Got a real estate investing blog? Interested in participating in next years battle? If so, leave a comment with your name, blog name, and url.

P.S.S. Also, make sure you check this out … the theme song for the Battle … LOL … “An Ode to a Championship: The Ballad of the ‘Battle of the REI Blogs’” … let me know what you think … hahahaha …

PATRICK RIDDLE

Must Know Investing

Creative real estate investing tips, tools, and techniques from Patrick Riddle, REI expert, college drop out and self proclaimed beach bum.

TREVOR MAUCH

theREIbrain

Real estate investing for real life. Largest collection of free forms, tips, tutorials, market stats, product reviews, and news on the net.

JULIE BROAD

RevNYou

Real estate investing live and on location across north america. Videos, tips, and resources to help you invest successfully in any city!

JP MOSES

REI tips

Imagine Real Estate Investing…Undressed. It’s practical, real & “Average Joe” friendly. Stop by & grab my 53 Free REI Forms on the house!

LARRY GOINS

The Ultimate in REI Training

Real estate investor tools, tips, and tribulations from Larry Goins.

JAMEL GIBBS

REI Education Academy

Real estate investment education blog provided by the REI education academy. Learn the hottest tips and strategies on this blog.

STEPHANI DAVIS

Flip this Wholesaler

Rags to riches real estate: the daily musings of a bartender turned REO wholesaler …

PETER KOLAT

Free Real Estate Internet Marketing

Real Estate Internet Marketing Blog-FREE 56 pg. Real Estate Black Book-The Only Place to Get Secret Internet Marketing Strategies For FREE.

SUSAN L. LYONS

The Investor Insights

Susan Lassiter-Lyons blog, The Investor Insights, is the real estate investor’s destination for financing info, creative strategies and wit.

RON MEAD

Buy Probate Property

If the coffee I’m drinkin’ and what I’m just thinkin’ or your just a winkin’, then we’d better say bye, cause I’m just the Probate Guy!

BRIAN EVANS

Real Estate Investor Coach

Real Estate Investing is the most fun thing you can do with your clothes on, and this blog is the place to discover how!

KEN SPOHN

Investor Classifieds

On top of the over 14k wholesale listing for you to search…I now have great tips and content for wholesaling. Stop by and leave comments.

SHAE BYNES

Good Faith Investing

An inside look at a hubby & wife’s journey to financial freedom via real estate. Learn from it all – our obstacles, failures, & successes!

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Buying foreclosures is an extremely hot topic right now. With escalating foreclosure rates, banks are dumping properties left and right and investors are getting great deals . . . truly a win win!

You see, banks want investors buying foreclosures. They NEED to unload their inventory! Most people don’t know that for every house a bank takes back as a foreclosure, it limits the amount that the bank can lend.

And that’s how banks make money . . . by lending it out. Banks aren’t in the business of owning real estate, they’re in the business of loaning money and making interest.

Soooo, banks are very motivated to get these liabilities off their books. That’s where you, the investor, come into play . . . if you know how to navigate the foreclosure buying process.

One of the most viewed real estate investing videos on YouTube right now is called, “Real Estate Investing Tip: Becoming a Foreclosure Insider.” Wholesaler, Bob Norton, shares some great tips on building relationships with REO and foreclosure agents so that you can start buying foreclosures.

Buying Foreclosures Insider Tips

I wanted to expand upon a few of the tips for you, so I shot a quick video response. In the video, I cover four tips that Bob Norton discussed. Three of which I agreed with and one that I disagreed with … check out my video below to learn more . . .

Buying foreclosures can be a very profitable way to pick up great deals at pennies on the dollar.

If you have any further questions that I can help you with, put them in the comment area below.

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The first video is from my buddy JP Moses YouTube Channel. He’s an awesome guy and creates some great videos, check out his FlippingHomes YouTube channel.

If you haven’t already, go to MustKnowInvesting’s YouTube Channel and subscribe to my videos so you don’t miss out.

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