Sunday March 1, 2009 - Syndication(s)

What a busy end of month for www.IQMoneyTeam.com!

I'm dealing with a head cold which has interrupted my creating sound clips for our PowerPoint presentation. (laugh), so I will have to wait a few days before wrapping that up. I have a list of people waiting for that.

Peter is in CA attending a Commercial Training specific to Syndication. I had a voice-mail from him yesterday and e-mail today. He is very enthusiastic about the knowledge he is bringing back to the team. One of the things I like about being part of a team is the ability to share knowledge and resources efficiently.

We are forming our own version of Syndication for working with qualified investors. We also have a program for non-qualified investors in the works. Because of rules and regulations we recognized that we need to focus on the qualified investors starting point.

Creating our own "world" has been interesting. The rules don't necessarily apply to our contexts, but we have to honor them anyway. It is odd setting aside a greed based context and model and embracing one rooted in prosperity. It is unfamiliar ground and territory. So much of business today is rooted in adversarial perspectives.

When I look at the financial melt downs happening in every sector of business and life - the root cause of those melt downs is greed, and people being out of touch with their own values. The TV Show "Flash point" had a show last week that featured this - 3 men who lost their homes creating a situation for a corporate leader that designed the program that predatized them. It was good drama. But the underlying point is - much of what we do today - is very impersonal.

I think people are hungry to be a part of a team that is on track to accomplishing something for them and every person on a team. Teams can get things done that individuals cannot. An individual cannot effectively compete against a team. Teams just make sense.

I have some spreadsheets to work on, but this cold is tiring me physically (laugh). It is so interesting seeing what I see, knowing what I know - and yet not knowing if I can find 20 qualified investors to join together with a $5,000,000 commitment to the team. That is a $100,000,000 of capital to put to work. I seems so simple.

Every week I hear about some dude that has been scamming his clients, friends, customers for hundreds of millions of dollars, or billions of dollars. I shake my head wondering why because there are so many legitimate and powerful ways of making money with those levels of resources. The foundation again is greed.

I think there is an unreal expectation for returns out there. Home runs are kewl, but to get home runs consistently is something that is not reasonable and I think there is a lot of pressure for people at some of these higher (qualified investor) level projects to get unbelievable returns. There is a lot of money out there. 75 Trillion dollars worth actually, so it makes sense that there is a vulnerability to scams. Most of that money just sits in accounts and creating false statements demonstrating "great" results is a matter of creating an illusion.

That money really isn't being used for anything an the accounting statements are just that. The money isn't even needed for the day to day lifestyles so it goes unnoticed and unchecked for years, or even decades. It is interesting that even multi-billion dollar illusions and schemes can operate as they do.

It is also odd that suddenly when the scheme is uncovered - that it comes to an end. The truth of a lot of these things is it nothing more than shuffling of money around. It makes me wonder what could of been done - if everyone had realistic non-greed based expectations and intentions. Those same amounts of money would of been powerfully put to work. Everyone at those levels would still be wealthy, and those managing the assets would be wealthy too.

It just doesn't make any sense to me - other than people getting caught up in greed. Our planet and humanity is so wealthy and prosperous today we can solve any problem - if we wanted to. We have the knowledge, human, and physical resources. Why anyone today dies of starvation, or diseases we have cures for is a testimony to "greed" and how impersonal our world can be.

When I think of our IQ Team Members - I am thinking of people who have accomplished something in their lives. It may be one of those "once in a life time" considerations. The people I have met throughout my life who have accumulated a million dollars or more of net worth, often are not sure if they could do it again. Some where in the right place at right time. Some won the lottery (laugh).

With that blessing seems to come great fear of losing that blessing. Fear based decisions almost always lead to the very losses that the fear is warning of happening. It is interesting reviewing the statistics of lottery winners.

I see a different model - those with resources coming together as a team to put those resources to work. In our plan, those resources are deployed and put to work actively in passive commercial real estate investments. We get the best of several business and investing worlds by design. I believe our approach is the safest investment option available, while still creating a compounding opportunity which creates and perpetuates wealth.

I seem to be able to teach these concepts in person. The Power Point is coming together. The financial world has really dummied down people's expectations. Nobody wants low returns, and everyone is seeking the holy grail of investing wanting 100's of % returns, or 1,000's of % returns. The people who need those levels of return are the little guys, and even then all they really need is a solid plan that has a compounding element in it.

The problem with gambling is we always hear about the "wins", but people quietly eat their losses which creates a false truth about what is really happening "in the markets".

All investing has risks, but not all investing is gambling. Or perhaps better stated - not all "gambles" are created equal.

When we learned about Commercial Real Estate - and I started running the numbers, looking at deals, profiling geographic regions for growth - I was beside myself with enthusiasm. I still am. There are risks in Commercial Real Estate, gambles can be made with a high degree of certainty in the end result - BUT there are also acquisitions that are no-brainers and they are not hard to find, add $20,000,000 or more in acquisition resources - you can begin a compounding program that regionally diversifies which diversifies risk.

Add a smart approach - that puts the team in control always in an advantages position - now instead of "being played", the team is creating the rules - i.e. "it's world". It is a different game all together.

I just need to find 20 solid qualified investors who want solid safe returns, who want better than a Bank CD's return and will take the time to understand our approach. We guarantee a 10% return with a formula that we can adopt to a changing market, that guarantee (our attorney doesn't like me to use the word guarantee - but I always disclose what backs that, the truth is, there are not guarantees - if you see that word anywhere - you have to ask "What does that mean? What backs that?"

In our world - we back principle funds by positive cash flowing commercial real estate. I can't think of anything better to "back" or "guarantee" principle funds. Park your money in Gold or Silver and you're equity is out of control - there is nothing you can do. Commercial Real Estate, is an asset that "does" something, and what it does creates cash flows and those cash flows are created by businesses that (do something), and those businesses and markets can be expanded, and investigated in advance.

People just are not "thinking" right in my opinion. They are not asking the right questions. Our 10% ROI guarantee is backed by the cash flows of the commercial real estate. People are so mentally conditioned to expect they put their money into something and hope for the best, or they get little to nothing while still risking things.

FDIC is funny to me. We researched and found that in our local area there are over 5,000 people that have over $500,000 in bank cds!

Talk about risk - half of that money is not insured by the FDIC, I suspect few have read that "Insurance Policy" that can change at any time by a vote. They voted to increase it to $250,000 through the end of this year. Yea, what backs that insurance? Nothing you or I fully understand. Undisclosed risks are everywhere.

Just ask me about WAMU - a publicly traded company, the day before the Government stepped in and privately sold it to another company I bought some stocks and options in WAMU.

Wiped out. Valueless. Fair? no. Legal (questionable, some little known clause from after the stock market crash that inspired the great depression.) - we don't know what we don't know and we are totally out of control in the various financial casinos.

I don't want those casinos to end. I don't want everyone to know what I know, or see what I see. I believe there needs to be a new change in financial and corporate leadership. Someone has to set a better example of how to get things done and what is possible.

Our plan has that core foundation. I want to teach what I see and know. I want to inspire teams of people to come together and do great things. It takes wealth,affluence and influence to make major changes in our world today. I and my management team are looking for 20 people with at least $5,000,000 (5 million dollars), because we are a team we can work with 100 people with a million dollars each, or 10 people with 10 million dollars, that is what is so kewl about teams - we can work through limitations simply, directly and easily.

My personal goal (not guaranteed, but I don't see any reason why it cannot be done with our business model) is to have $500,000,000 of assets in play, and our "IQ Money Team" will own 25% of that as a team, and have their $100,000,000 liquid after 5 years, and/or we continue our compounding acquisition plan together. It is such a no-brainer, common sense approach it does inspire lack of sleep until you get to peace knowing "wow - that will work".

If you are a qualified investor, take the time to check out what we are doing. We really have created a truly "peace of mind" strategy for putting money to work passively, a real arm chair approach doing a business and acquisition process you can be proud to be a part of.

Some processes out there (foreclosures for example), it is hard to be proud of taking advantage of the losses of others. The argument there is "someone is going to. The banks need to grow up and re-negotiate their predatory loans and care about their customers. We should never of gotten rid of our "usury" laws which protected people from complex financial manipulations that we are seeing has brought our entire country to its financial knees.

The banks are being bailed out - yet, all they need to do - is "work it out" and "work together", but they don't know how to do that, yet they are in a position of power to do just that. It is very odd watching it. I've done foreclosure & pre-foreclosure work. I helped a lot of people keep their homes as I would only work with people in a no-win situation. There just are better ways of making money today that I want to be involved in.

There is a huge threat to retirement plans rooted in a "flawed" strategy. Our plan fixes that, and I have a 4 slide power point that reveals it. I have about 4 more minutes of audio to record for that presentation.

All this chaos has created a powerful opportunity. The IQ Money team is here to capitalize on that opportunity - but not as a predator - we are here to be leaders and our team - some of them I am certain will want to "get in the game" and we will train and work with them. Our world needs new leadership.

That is all I have for now.

Namaste' - a new adventure awaits today and this week!

- David