19 Jan Staying in Your Zone of Genius, with Courtney Fricke
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Courtney has been investing since 2015 and has since flipped or owned over a hundred and fifty properties in the Greater New Orleans area. Since her start, she has flipped, held rentals, wholesaled, developed, bought, and sold with owner financing, and handled complex title issues.
Before making the leap into working full-time for herself investing, her background was in non-profit work and then in commercial property management, where she created and executed the management plan for the turnaround of a 100+ unit marina to prepare the asset for sale. As founder of Northshore Real Estate Investors Association and cohost of WWL’s Home Improvement radio show, she cares about solving the real estate problems of our community through education for the public and within the industry.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- What and who introduced Courtney to the world of real estate and how her mentors helped her progress in the industry
- How Courtney leveraged her skill set and resourcefulness by getting a line of credit and using it as a springboard to property development
- Why Courtney plans to sell her condo on owner financing
- Who Courtney’s ideal buyer is and some of the commonalities of the buyers she works with
- What creative financing and buying ‘subject to’ are and how Courtney uses them to help her clients buy and sell homes
- Why it’s so important to invest time to understand clients’ problems, ask questions, listen to them, and solve their problems
- Courtney’s insights into this crazy hot market we’re seeing right now
- Why it’s essential to stay in your zone of genius; you’ve got to run towards what you’re good at to help others
- Why she’s a helper, not a haggler, and what that means
- How Courtney maintains her reputation as an authority in the real estate niche by appearing on the radio
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