I JUST CLOSED A BRAND NEW DEAL AND THIS ONE IS SPECIAL. Not just because it's another deal closed, but because this is one of those deals I’ve genuinely dreamed about. There have been plenty of moments along the way where I’ve had to keep learning, keep pushing, keep having conversations, and trust that the right opportunity would eventually come together. And today, it did. I'm genuinely happy right now, and I wanted to share the moment with this community because so many of you understand what it feels like to work towards something that doesn't happen overnight. I'm celebrating this one properly. And if you're currently working towards your first deal, your next deal, or a goal that feels a long way off... Keep going. You never know how close you might actually be. Today I'm celebrating a dream deal. Tomorrow, it's back to learning, connecting and building. But today... Please celebrate with me 😂🥂🎉

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Every foreclosure you've ever seen started as a non-performing note. You were looking at the property. A note investor was looking at the paper — months earlier, at a better price, with more options. Every seller-finance deal you've ever done created a note. That note has a market value you could sell for cash tomorrow. Most people holding paper right now have no idea. When institutional capital "buys up housing" — a huge share of it isn't buying houses. It's buying the debt on houses. The note market isn't a niche inside real estate. It's the layer underneath all of it. The houses are the collateral. The notes are the asset. I put this all together in a new video — the mechanics, the pricing, and a real deal from this January with full numbers. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/_K5nd3nHENE 👉 One question for the group: when did it click for you that notes were the asset and the property was just the collateral? Drop it below.

62 loans. $844K in principal balance. 38.7 cents on the dollar. The latest trade just locked, and the next one drops in ~30 days. Here's what we covered: 📊 Market Update Pricing is as attractive as it's been in years. We were in the 60s in 2022, in the sub-40s now. Good time to be a buyer. 🛠️ New Platform Tools We did a full walkthrough of everything that's live: - Insider's Trade Desk — $3B of aggregated industry deal flow in the last 30 days - State Intelligence — FC timelines, distressed lenders, zip code lookup, and vetted vendors by state - Property Lens — Pull owner info, equity, liens, and taxes directly from the deal page - Practice Deals — Bid on real closed deals with anonymized data. See how your pricing stacks up - Document Blueprints — Loan purchase agreements, due diligence waterfall, NPL resolution flow. 💬 Live Deal Q&A We worked through a live Pennsylvania first lien (deed-in-lieu strategy on a tenant-occupied, full-equity deal) and talked through how to approach due diligence on active litigation deals and charge-offs. All of this — the tools, the live deal calls, the deal flow — is inside Foundation. The next offering drops in a month. If you want to be ready to bid on it, now's the time. 👉 fixnotes.com/pricing Drop a comment below, what tool do you want to see next? Call recording link in the comments 👇

There's a moment that ends more note investing careers than any bad deal. You finally find a good opportunity. The seller is sitting on non performing loans they'd genuinely love to move. You're ready. And then they ask: "How many deals have you done?" You say "none" — and the conversation is over. They're not being rude. They're managing risk. Why would they hand distressed paper to a stranger? And that creates the catch-22 that traps investors for years: → You can't get deals without credibility. → You can't get credibility without deals. I've been on hundreds of calls with investors stuck in exactly that loop. Smart people. Capital ready. Just no way to answer the question. Here's how we broke it: 1. A credential that actually proves something. The Certified Note Professional™ designation isn't a watch-some-videos certificate. You earn it through the Accelerator curriculum and a capstone — real underwriting, real resolution planning. When you hold it, you can defend it. 2. Your credibility, on paper. Alongside the certification, we build your Portable Vetting Package — financials, experience, references, deal approach — in the exact format institutional sellers expect before they open the door. So next time someone asks the question, you don't stammer. You send a document and say: here's who I am, here's how I underwrite, here's how I resolve. That's a completely different conversation. Both come with annual Foundation, along with qualified-buyer status and the $250K minimum waived — so your first deal can be sized to your comfort. If you've been browsing the marketplace for months waiting to feel "ready," this is the path: Get Certified