Real Estate On Your Terms (Revised Edition)

CHRIS PREFONTAINE is the three-time bestselling author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Moneeka Sawyer's Real Estate Investing for Women. He's also the founder and CEO of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for almost thirty years. His experience ranges from constructing new homes in the 1990s and owning a Realty Executives franchise to running his own investments (commercial and residential) and coaching clients throughout North America. Presently, Chris is running his family entities with his son, Nick, son in law, Zach, and an amazing team who buy their own properties and help others around the country totaling 25-30 homes monthly at present. These are all done without banks and without signing on loans. They are changing the real estate landscape all over North America. Chris and his family live on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island. NICK PREFONTAINE is part of the Smart Real Estate Coach family, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He recently co-authored the best-selling book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, working alongside his father Chris, his brother-in-law Zach, his sister Kayla, and a great support team. Nick grew up in the real estate industry and got started on his own at an early age. Most notably, he was knocking on Pre-Foreclosure doors at age 16, doing up to fifty doors a day. This experience helped shape Nick’s real estate career. Now, Nick specializes in working with lease purchasers to get them into a home and on the path to home ownership. Regardless of a buyer’s credit situation, he looks at their complete financial picture and comes up with a plan to get them into a home. In 2003, Nick was in a snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over 3 weeks. The doctors told his parents that he probably wouldn’t walk, talk, or eat on his own again. Less than 3 months later, he was running out of Franciscan Children’s hospital. Now, in addition to his work in real estate, Nick is a Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer and speaks to groups that benefit from his message of overcoming adversity. ZACHARY BEACH is part of the Smart Real Estate Coach family, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He co-authored their most recent best-selling book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, working alongside his brother-in-law Nick, father-in-law Chris, and a great support team. He is a successful real estate investor, completing over 100 deals in under 3 years, and he continues to buy & sell property without using his own cash, credit, or investors’ money. Zach grew up in central Massachusetts, but relocated to Newport when he graduated from college. After graduation, Zach had no idea what he wanted to do, deciding to bartend and be a personal trainer until he had a solid plan. He soon realized that he was burning the candle at both ends, working late nights and early mornings. He knew there was a better way. At age 25, Zach decided to jump into the family real estate business. It was one of the first big risks he took in his life, as nothing was guaranteed. Plus, he knew absolutely nothing about real estate. Through hard work, in-house training, and implementation, Zach has now completed over 100 deals and growing. On top of that, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell property just like his family still does. Now, as a group, they buy and sell 5-10 properties a month with a predictable and scalable system, controlling between $20-$25 million of real estate at any one time with little to no money in the deal and no banks involved.

FOREWORD BY RON LEGRAND FOREWORD BY SCOTT ULMER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION My 2008 Debacle Is Yours to Learn From On YOUR TERMS—What That Means Yeah, but (Fill In Your Self-Imposed Roadblock Here) Nine Steps to Becoming a Master Transaction Engineer You Can Make All the Difference The Path to Profits: Knowing What Deal Type to Use Okay, I Have These Properties, Now What Do I Do? Simple, Proven, Predictable, and Profitable with the Right Coach What Could Go Wrong? Design Your Lifestyle CONCLUSION APPENDIX