fredmoskowitz

Today, my guest is Fred Moscowitz. Fred is an educator and best selling author who has trained countless investors from all walks of life on how to create passive income streams on their own. As a fund manager Fred manages a mortgage note Investment Fund, and is considered an industry veteran within the note investing arena. But it teaches the concept that individual investors are able to step into the shoes of the lender through note investing, and effectively be the bank. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Fred about mortgage note investing.

J Darrin Gross

I'd like to ask you Fred Moscowitz. What is the Biggest Risk?

Fred Moskowitz  

Wow, this is a great question. There's, there's many, many risks. That's a big part of what we do is known investors is get good at understanding what they are. As I said earlier, diversification is is a great way to manage risk and the note portfolio, but some other other areas, it's really getting good at doing your due diligence before purchase. As I said, I dedicate a large portion of my book to this topic because it's so important. It's prior to buying, running your due diligence and surrounding yourself with the right individuals to help you whether it's vendors its data providers, to give you the resources and information. It can be an another area super important. Is counterparty risk when you're buying a note, who are you buying from? This is a big one. You want to make sure you're comfortable with who and this goes for any any business transaction. Are you comfortable with who you're you're entering into a business transaction with with them as a person with their company, their reputation and track record industry, I feel like this is something that often gets overlooked, or doesn't get enough attention to it. Because deals can go bad transactions can have problems, they can go bad. And so what's very important is how is the other person going to respond and cooperate and work with you to solve a problem that comes up? Because we live in a far from perfect world? And so you want to know, how is the other person going to show up and resolve this issue. And that matters so much, so much, so that you're comfortable, that you can work through an issue, you can still be friends at the end and walk away knowing that everyone got a fair transaction. And you're looking forward to doing the next deal again, in the future. There's nothing worse than walking away from a transaction saying never again, am I going to deal with this individual or this company, or this client, it's so all these headaches, it's the worst feeling in the world. And so that's something you can avoid upfront. Something you can easily avoid upfront. And that that's, I would say, a huge risk that a lot of people neglect to think about or talk about.