Are You Running a Real Estate Business,
or Working a Really Hard, Stressful
Real Estate "Job"?

Take this quiz and find out!

Do you believe that the harder you work, the more deals you'll make?   
[ ] yes [ ] no

Do you find that there's not enough time to do your real estate "stuff" AND work your regular job/spend time with your family/relax with your hobbies/live your life? [ ] yes [ ] no

Do you plan to hire some help--just as soon as you make enough money to afford it?   [ ] yes [ ] no

Does your real estate business ever overflow into your personal space and/or your leisure time?  [ ] yes [ ] no

Do you believe that there are roles within your business - for instance, negotiator, marketer, or general contractor - that only you or your partner can fill?  [ ] yes [ ] no

Do you have trouble juggling the various "roles" - salesperson, bookkeeper, file clerk - within your business successfully?  [ ] yes [ ] no

Are important things like filing quarterly taxes, record keeping, and customer service "falling through the cracks" in your business?  [ ] yes [ ] no

Do you fantasize about cloning yourself to get everything done (and done RIGHT, by God...)  [ ] yes [ ] no

Have you neglected to put your systems, policies, and procedures on paper because you're too busy working IN your business to work ON it?   [ ] yes [ ] no

Are you committed to having a real life with friends, family, hobbies and vacations?  [ ] yes [ ] no

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you don't have a real estate business - you have a job. And the problem with a job is that your potential income is limited by your own energy, abilities and time. There's no way for you to make more money than you, personally, can generate.

What, exactly, does it mean to run your real
estate business "like a business"?
(or, the long, sad story of how I almost
went crazy while making more money than
I ever thought I could...)

   My name is Vena Jones-Cox, and I've been investing in real estate for more than 18 years. Sure, my business runs smoothly now, but as someone who never worked in a "real" company (well, there WAS that 6 weeks at P&G, but that hardly counts...), I struggled with this question for many years.

   I wasn't quite sure what people were talking about when they said "like a business".

About Us:
Vena Jones-Cox has been a full time real estate investor since 1989. She has bought and sold over 400 properties, specializing in wholesaling and lease/option deals. She runs her business through a staff of 4 and dozens of written systems for everything from bookkeeping to property analysis. In the spare time created by these systems she writes 2 e-letters a week, multiple books each year, and travels the world teaching other people to becoming financially independent (and doing tons of sightseeing)

Missy McCall-Hammonds has been investing in real estate for 10 years, and averages 40-50 deals each year. She has 350 rental properties under management and has renovated and sold more than 150 properties. Her staff includes 4 full-time employees plus multiple contractors. But what she really prides herself on is doing all of this AND vacationing in Mexico 4 times a year!

   After all, it wasn't like I was running it as a hobby. I've depended on real estate to put food on the table and a roof over my head for nearly 2 decades. I learned early on that if the things that needed to get done didn't get done, bad stuff happened. Bills didn't get paid. Important paperwork got lost. Houses didn't get fixed, and unfixed houses didn't get - or stay - rented.

   I also knew that the harder I worked, the more deals got done. In fact, there was a 5 year period when I, with the help of a partner and an assistant, purchased or wholesaled close to 200 properties!

   Of course, during that same 5 year period, I worked an average of 10 hours a day, 7 days a week.

   And I took no vacations at all.

   And I paid thousands of dollars in penalties for filing my taxes late (who's got time for all that paperwork when there are deals to be done?)

   And my office took over my 9 room house, and my job took over my life.����

Trust Me, Having a "Successful" Real Estate Business
And Struggling All Day Every Day to Keep it Going,
(and Having No Life at All)
is No Way to Live.

   Yes, I was successful by every measure - income, wealth, recognition, you name it. But the truth was, I was drowning in stress, overwhelm, backlogged work...and the real tragedy was, I couldn't find one single "successful" investor who wasn't in exactly the same boat.

   Lots of my peers - both part-time and full-time investors--had grappled with the same issues of overwork and overwhelm, and were juggling them to varying degrees of success, but none had really "solved" the problem. In fact, most saw the real estate business itself as the issue. I heard a lot of, "I've got a bookkeeper and a secretary and an outside team, but I'm the only one who can negotiate with sellers, nurture private lenders, walk buyers through the financing process...I don't mess with the unimportant stuff, but the real work of real estate takes up every spare minute of my day!"

   Even those who understood that real businesses don't depend on their owners being there every minute of every day couldn't figure out how to make such a miracle occur in their own lives. "I've read the E-myth, but it just doesn't apply to the real estate business" was a common refrain.

   Surrounded by "successful" investors who were just as stressed, miserable, and overly busy as I was, I couldn't see any solution to the mess other than to work even harder. And, in a business where there's always education on every imaginable topic for sale, I couldn't find one single book, course, bootcamp, free report, ANYTHING addressing this, the most pressing problem in my life.

I Tried Everything You've Tried:
More Self-Discipline, Better Time Management Systems,
Hiring Assistants, Even Changing Strategies!
And as You've Already Discovered, NONE OF IT WORKS

   Oh, sure, my determination to get hyper-organized, or delegate more, or try the latest motivational guru's affirmations, or bring on yet another partner, all "worked" for a few days or weeks. But in the end, I'd be just as far behind - or even farther! - than before. I just couldn't find a way to have the productive, relaxed, profitable and happy life I'd always imagined that successful real estate entrepreneurs led.

That's When It Hit Me:
We're All Failing to Achieve the Life and
the Business We Want Because We've All Been
Working on the Wrong Problem!

   The problem ISN'T the nature of the real estate business, and it ISN'T that we aren't smart enough, disciplined enough, or skilled enough to do what needs to be done. It doesn't get solved when you move from part-time investor to full-time investor - in fact, it often gets worse! No amount of motivation or determination or additional work on your part can solve it.

   The problem is that NO business can grow smoothly and profitably if, at the end of the day, it depends on the sheer ambition and energy of one or two people to operate.

   Read that last sentence again. It's a basic truth that's the key to solving all of your problems with cash flow, staffing, and most importantly, that horrible uncomfortable feeling of overwhelm.

   See, the thing is, we're not taught that there's a whole side to real estate investing that has nothing to do with buying, fixing, selling, financing, or managing real estate. Instead, it has to do with arranging our lives and the operation of our companies in such a way that we can do all of the above without killing ourselves to make money.

The Solution Isn't to Work Harder, or Find a Better Strategy -
It's to Organize and Systematize

Our Businesses to Make More Money

with Less Stress and in Less Time-
And That's Exactly What You'll Learn to Do at the
Real Estate Business Summit, July 18-20 in Cincinnati!

   After years of studying business principles, documenting systems, and picking the brains of others who've done the same, I finally have my business working the way I want it to.

   I go to the office just 3 days a week.

   I quit work at 4 p.m. most days.

   I take real, out-of-the-country, no cell phone or internet access vacations twice a year.

   My dogs remember me again.

   I'm making more deals (and more money) than ever.

   And now, I'm ready to cut 5 years off of your learning curve by sharing the concepts and procedures you can put into place IMMEDIATELY to make that happen.
The Real Estate Business Summit, July 18-20 in Cincinnati will show you how to quit your real estate "job" and start a real estate business the very next day.
Along with my friend (and uber-investor) Missy McCall Hammonds, I've created a 3-day workshop called "The Real Estate Business Summit" for serious investors who want to get where we are at lightning speed.
If you haven't met Missy, you should: in 9 short years, she's created a portfolio of rental properties worth millions of dollars. Her own hyper-systemization is what allows her to manage over 200 properties while vacationing 4 weeks each year and generally enjoying life. She's also one of the best educators I've ever met, and together, we'll be sharing the systems, policies, and procedures that operate BOTH of our businesses.
When you attend the Real Estate Business Summit, you'll get an entire business education that will teach you how to run your full or part-time real estate business using proven, time-saving systems and resources that you won't find anywhere else. You'll discover:

• Why you need a real business plan, and how it will help you focus, reach your goals faster, and even raise money to buy and rehab properties
• How to apply "E-Myth" principles to your wholesaling, retailing, lease/option, or rental business and start working ON your business (which makes you more money) instead of IN it (which just makes you an employee of your own company)
• How to create systems that organize, prioritize, simplify, and streamline what you do, so that your profits become bigger, more consistent, and totally repeatable
• How to hire help when you can't afford help, so that you can focus on the activities that actually make you money
• How (and why) to run a "virtual office" with unbelievably cheap help from all over the world
• How to create a business that will continue to earn for you even when you're working your "real" job, on vacation, on the golf course, or even retired
• How to set up your physical space for maximum effectiveness - and whether you should work from home or get an outside office
• How to track and evaluate your own "performance indicators" so that you can predict (and improve) the future of your operation
• How to simplify your bookkeeping and paperwork, saving serious time (and thousands in tax preparation fees)
• Why real businesses never, ever operate without entities - and which will give you the best protection and most tax savings
• Plus, you'll get over 200 pages of actual policies, procedures, and systems for rental, lease/option, retail, and wholesale businesses

Here's Why I (And Every Experienced Investor I Know)

Would Have Cheerfully Paid $10,000 for This Information

When I Was Starting Out

   When I began investing in real estate in 1989, I knew absolutely nothing about business. What I knew was how to buy properties cheaply and make $15,000-$25,000 lease/optioning them.

   Back then, my partner and I worked every aspect of our real estate business WITHOUT systems, WITHOUT help, and WITHOUT any long-term plan to get them. Everything from finding deals to applying for loans to taking calls from potential renters was done by brute force - we'd JUST DO IT until we dropped.

   Operating this way, I was able to find, negotiate, finance, close, fix, and lease/option about 1 deal every 6 weeks.

   Once I understood and implemented systems and outsourcing, I was able to do 1 deal every 4 weeks - a net increase of more than 4 deals each year, and an additional profit of $60,000 annually.

   When I took the next step, and hired OTHER people run my systems, I was suddenly able to QUADRUPLE my output with LESS work from me. In deciding to run a business instead of working a job, I gave myself a raise of over $180,000 a year in cash profits and equity.

Who Should Attend:
Full-time investors who understand how to make deals, but are beginning to struggle with the overwhelm of 'too much to do, too little time'

Part-time investors who are committed to organizing their business correctly from day 1, rather than letting it become a disaster before trying to 'fix' it.

   Do you see why I would have considered $10,000 a small investment to get me to this point years earlier and with much, much less effort? Even if you're a part-time investor doing just a few deals a year, streamlining your business so that you can do 1-2 more gives you a HUGE return on investment.

   You'll see exactly the same effects in your own real estate business when you do what I've done - but it won't take you 5 years and hundreds of hours of work to organize and systemize your business. All it'll take is a single 3-day seminar.

Yes, a $180,000 Profit on a $10,000 Investment Is a

GREAT Return on Investment -

But You Won't Spend Anything Like the That

To Organize Your Own Business!

   At the Real Estate Business Summit, you'll get what you need to do more deals with less effort and stress - and have a life at the same time! - in just 3 short days.

   Your tuition to attend this amazing event is just $2,995 for 1 person, $3,995 for 2, a small fraction of the return you'll see when you implement the ideas you've learned.

   And yes, I know, gas prices and plane fares are up, so when you register by July 1st, I'll give you a $1000 travel allowance, which makes your tuition just $1,995 for 1 or $2,995 for 2!

   Plus, if you're lucky enough to be one of the 1st 50 registrants, I'll make it even more affordable for you by buying your breakfast and lunch each day and paying for 3 nights at the Drawbridge Inn & so your hotel room and 2 meals a day will be taken care of, too.

   You'll Do More Deals, Make More Money, and Live a Better Life - Or You'll Pay Nothing!

The Real Estate Business Summit No-Risk Guarantee: You'll be completely thrilled you attended AND convinced that what you learn at the Business Summit has cut at least 5 years off your learning curve as a business owner, or we'll happily refund your entire tuition!"

   I know the huge effect that organizing, systemizing, and delegating my business has had on my life. Yes, it's made me more money, but even more importantly, it's given me a better quality of life. I spend less time working and more time playing. I get to do the things I WANT to do instead of the things I HAVE to do. I'm less stressed and more happy.

   Your results will be the same - more profit and less hassle - and they're absolutely guaranteed...this Summit will make your life easier, make your business more profitable, and make you a happier camper all around, or your money back!

   Register now to change your life by clicking this link: REGISTER! or calling 888-AskVena. Space is limited to the 1st 100 people who decide that it's time for their lives to change, so do not miss this!

Yours,
Vena

P.S. The second you sign up for the Real Estate Business Summit, we'll ship you the 2 jam-packed course manuals and systems so you can get started even before the Summit. You'll also get the entire 18 hours of audio recorded at the last event - listen to them, because we're covering NEW ground in July in Cincinnati.

P.P.S. When you register by July 1st, you'll get another special bonus - a FREE review of your business plan (we'll teach you how to make one at the Summit) by me personally.

P.P.P.S. Don't forget to check out the schedule here ; I know you'll want to join me when you do!