Jay

Known as the guru to the gurus, Jay is one of the original trainers in real estate. Jay began his real estate career in1965 by buying apartment buildings in New England with no money down. There were no books, tapes, seminars, or gurus for guidance. He learned by the trial and terror method.

Jay has been teaching creative real estate and paper techniques for over 30 years. He teaches that real estate is not done in a vacuum. Every deal is built upon a fresh canvas with gentle brush strokes. You need to have an understanding of the world economy as well as the local markets to build and protect your real estate business. You need to know the true art of keep a low financial profile and protecting your hard won assets.

"Every time the country has gone into a recession, I have come out a lot wealthier for the experience." Those of you who know him well, know he loves to share his formulas, war stories, as well as show off his battle scars.

Barbara

Barbara grew up in a real estate family and learned early on that steady real estate investing is a viable path to wealth.  Barbara has been featured on TV and radio programs such as Millionaire Mindset, Fox News, Real Talk, The Biz News Flash and co-hosted the radio talk show, Let's Talk Real Estate.  She has also been featured in the St. Pete Times and has had one of her real estate articles picked up by the Harvard Law Blog.

She is the author of the e-book Fast Money in Real Estate: Secrets of a Bird Dog and the editor of The Hard Money Directory.  Her latest real estate book, Sell Your House Fast in a Slow Market provides investors and real estate professionals with timely and comprehensive methods to sell houses, especially in a down market.

Why One Up?

We chose the name OneUpRealEstate for two reasons.  First of all, being one up implies that you have an advantage over someone else or the situation.  We know that the best way to be One Up is to be, as Jay would say, the smartest kid on the block at what you do. 

We designed One Up Real Estate to give our subscribers as much information as possible to be one up on the competition and the marketplace.  Years ago, Jay started writing a newsletter for his circle of friends to give them his perspective on the economy and its effect on the real estate market.  His inner circle was One Up on the competition because of this specialized knowledge.  It is our goal to give you the information you need to be ahead of the crowd, especially in today's marketplace. 

A key component of One Up Real Estate is Jay's monthly newsletter, View From A Passing Planet.  This is what he sends to his inner circle of experienced real estate and paper investors and it is available to our subscribers.  To learn more about what goes into View From A Passing Planet and to see a sample, go to View From A Passing Planet.

The second meaning to One Up has to do with leveraging one's self up.  Most people are bootstrapping their way to success.  Our goal is to provide the information, tools and support to help everyone up the ladder who is willing to put in the time and effort to be successful.  One of our favorite sayings is "A rising tide lifts all boats."  The more people we can help to be successful, the more they can help their friends and relatives to be successful.  Success is contagious. 

State of the Wallet

We meet with and counsel real estate and business people every week.  The overwhelming problems that people are facing boil down to one thing - the economy stinks.  We see the fallout of this economy firsthand.  People are upside down in their houses, adjustable rate mortgages are rising, tenants are unable to pay rent because they are losing their jobs, businesses are closing because they can no longer get operating capital or because the general public no longer has disposable income. 

We also meet with new investors who have spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on some guru's course only to have either  a) spent all their money so they have nothing with which to do deals; b) bought an expensive course or "bootcamp" that doesn't address today's economy; or c) do not have the confidence to put what they have learned into action.  They need someone to help them through the first deal or two and the famous guru is down the road and unavailable.

We purposely made OneUpRealEstate.com inexpensive so anyone can afford to educate themselves.  We try to keep our courses and books low-priced.  People are hurting.  They need a way to salvage what they have and to make extra money.  Our goal is to provide affordable education in business, self development and real estate for a very simple reason - we believe that the only way to get the economy back on track is through the Trickle Up theory.  We start at the bottom with individuals and small businesses and work the money up through the economy instead of waiting for the government, banks and big business to get their act together.

Our website is for do-ers.  If you are ready to improve your situation, then join us.  You can click on either subscription button on the right hand side of the page.  Our membership is month to month and you are not "locked in" to a contract.  If you are not sure if you would like to join, keep reading or Click Here.

The Myth of Passive Income

Robert Kiyosaki, among others, describes being financially free as having enough passive income to cover all of your monthly expenses.  Another way of describing financial freedom is being able to do what you want to do when  you want to do it.  Financial Freedom has become a battle cry for entrepreneurs and investors.  Yet it has also been as elusive as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Unless you were born into the right family or were smart enough to marry well, you will probably have to put some very active work into building passive income.  Even those people who had huge stock portfolios and thought they were set for life are finding out that they would have been a lot better off if they had taken a more active role in analyzing their portfolios and as it turns out, analyzing the people controlling their portfolios. 

So is it possible to build up enough passive income so that you can become financially free?  Absolutely.  But let us tell you what doesn't work.  You can not join an MLM and expect that you won't have to sell anything and that the first three people you recruit are going to put you on Easy Street.  You may be able to go out and control a million dollars or more of real estate with no money down in three short months, but you probably will not have the cashflow from those properties that you need and you may very well find yourself losing money.  You can produce an information product and sell it online, but you may find it takes months, if not years and a heck of a learning curve, to drive enough people to your website for you to make your fortune.  In a nutshell, what doesn't work is thinking YOU won't have to work.

Building passive income takes work.  Sorry if you didn't want to hear that, but it's the truth.  And the hucksters and big name gurus out there aren't going to mention that little tidbit when they are hawking their "Business in a Box, Simply Press a Few Keys and Watch the Money Roll In While You Sit By the Pool Drinking Mai Tais" course.  Can you hear your mother's voice now?  "If it's so easy, why isn't everyone doing it?" 

Because it isn't easy.  It takes determination and sacrifice.  Sometimes your brain will hurt.  (Don't worry - brains tend to hurt when they are expanding.)  The good news is that there are many paths to financial freedom but more importantly, there are commonalities -- standard business practices -- that translate from business to business.  OneUpRealEstate will not only provide information on the business of real estate, but other means of generating income streams that can either fund your real estate deals, or be a place to expand your real estate income. 

Success leaves a trail.  There are paths to success that we will mark for you.  We will point out the pitfalls along the way.  Passive income is attainable but only if you are willing to work for it FIRST. 

If you are ready to get started, go to the upper right hand side of this page and click on either subscription button.  Remember, you are on a month-to-month membership and you may cancel at any time. 

Why don't we lock you into a membership?

It's simple.  The return on real estate education is so high -- one tip or nudge in the right direction can save you hundreds or thousands of dollars.  We know that each month we will be adding articles, interviews and tools that will be worth at least $20.00 to you and your business.  Our goal is to give you low-cost information with a great ROI - Return On Investment.  We're confident that OneUpRealEstate.com will do just that.