Joe Ponce Checking In
Hi Folks,
My name is Joe Ponce and I probably need to jump in this discussion as Wes's other success coach. You will see my posts appear as Wealth Address because I am the moderator of the Blog. Watch closely as Mitch begins to mentor Wes and the style he uses. He has spent many years freely giving advice away but NEVER to the extent you will see with Wes.
I know a lot of investors. Some have many courses and books for sale and some have none. I am at least familiar with most of "players" in the industry because these are the people I turned toward when I started investing years ago. I try to go to a seminar per year (funded as a business expense by my company of course). This year we went on the National Real Estate Investors’ Association Cruise and had a ball. I had a lot of fun mixing with the other investors and sharing ideas. We were in the final phases of starting Wealth Address and a number of people were interested in the idea.
I will give you a bit of background on myself so you know the perspective I approach this with. I am not bragging or selling myself short. I am an Army Officer still on Active Duty for about another year and some months until retirement. I have always been a technical guy with a good dose of creativity thrown in. This can be a wild combination and I am never short of ideas or things to think about. However, I do believe in action and Wealth Address is a product of this.
I began my career as a Medical Evacuation Helicopter Pilot in the mid 1980's and served in Desert Storm and another follow-up trip to that wonderful sandbox. I was the guy always interested in how things worked and eventually ended up as the Maintenance Test Pilot and Platoon Leader for the maintenance company for all of the Blackhawk aircraft. Don't confuse this with the Experimental Test Pilots that try to break the wings off airplanes. After we fixed them, someone had to test them out and that guy was me.
In the mid 1990s I decided to change courses and enter the world of information management and have spent the last 10 years doing that. I am in charge of a wonderful crew of folks that manages the network, voice, video, computers, and all of the other electronic systems it takes to make a hospital run. I really like what I do and the challenges it offers. I am also really looking forward to retirement especially after my third trip to the desert during the Iraq invasion. It is just really hot over there in terms of temperature and attitude if you know what I mean.
Anyway, I love investing in real estate and have a good bit of purchases and sales under my belt at probably 500. My business partner and I actually did 44 investment purchases while I was in Iraq via email. So I never believe that “it won’t work where you are” business.
This brings me to another point. My partner a co-coach Mitch lives in the San Antonio market as does Wes is our protégé. This is the same city that “Flip that House” is filmed out of. While I have watched the show, there are a number of things that do not add up to me…like the money spent on rehabbing homes. It is fun to watch and makes for good entertainment but it doesn’t do much for your bottom line.
Lord knows I am not a shy person, but you won’t see much of me in front of the camera. My most precious commodity is time. My wife and I are full time active duty military and we have three wonderful children. My work on the site is often at 2-3am and nobody wants to film me in the dark at that time!
I will pull all of the back-end pieces together of this documentary and move the electrons around so you have fun and learn something. You really have some great investors and people to watch here!
This site is like nothing else ever attempted in the real estate investing world and I hope you appreciate that. We want you to take action after seeing what can be done and look for a mentor in your area. I am not going to push products on you or demand $19.95 in shipping costs to send you some electronic information. At the same time, I am a military guy and don’t like people the WASTE MY TIME! Put the information to good use or get the heck out of the way and let someone else through.
We will provide the majority of the information and occasionally recommend a product but YOU have to take action. This is not a soap opera for entertainment. It is real life, with real people doing real deals. That is my two pennies and for those of you who do not like it…too bad.
For those of you with an open mind and a desire to learn…welcome to the library of success on Wealth Address. We are like no other site out there because we show and teach the REAL DEAL not some made-up fantasy to get your money. Frankly we do not need your money. This is a FUN project we decided to undertake about 4 years ago.
Wes is the fortunate guy but he is going to have to work to be a success like the rest of us.
Just get off the couch and do what he does…you will find yourself in the ranks of successful investors before you know it!
Best of Real Estate Success!
Joe Ponce
http://www.wealthaddress.com/
My name is Joe Ponce and I probably need to jump in this discussion as Wes's other success coach. You will see my posts appear as Wealth Address because I am the moderator of the Blog. Watch closely as Mitch begins to mentor Wes and the style he uses. He has spent many years freely giving advice away but NEVER to the extent you will see with Wes.
I know a lot of investors. Some have many courses and books for sale and some have none. I am at least familiar with most of "players" in the industry because these are the people I turned toward when I started investing years ago. I try to go to a seminar per year (funded as a business expense by my company of course). This year we went on the National Real Estate Investors’ Association Cruise and had a ball. I had a lot of fun mixing with the other investors and sharing ideas. We were in the final phases of starting Wealth Address and a number of people were interested in the idea.
I will give you a bit of background on myself so you know the perspective I approach this with. I am not bragging or selling myself short. I am an Army Officer still on Active Duty for about another year and some months until retirement. I have always been a technical guy with a good dose of creativity thrown in. This can be a wild combination and I am never short of ideas or things to think about. However, I do believe in action and Wealth Address is a product of this.
I began my career as a Medical Evacuation Helicopter Pilot in the mid 1980's and served in Desert Storm and another follow-up trip to that wonderful sandbox. I was the guy always interested in how things worked and eventually ended up as the Maintenance Test Pilot and Platoon Leader for the maintenance company for all of the Blackhawk aircraft. Don't confuse this with the Experimental Test Pilots that try to break the wings off airplanes. After we fixed them, someone had to test them out and that guy was me.
In the mid 1990s I decided to change courses and enter the world of information management and have spent the last 10 years doing that. I am in charge of a wonderful crew of folks that manages the network, voice, video, computers, and all of the other electronic systems it takes to make a hospital run. I really like what I do and the challenges it offers. I am also really looking forward to retirement especially after my third trip to the desert during the Iraq invasion. It is just really hot over there in terms of temperature and attitude if you know what I mean.
Anyway, I love investing in real estate and have a good bit of purchases and sales under my belt at probably 500. My business partner and I actually did 44 investment purchases while I was in Iraq via email. So I never believe that “it won’t work where you are” business.
This brings me to another point. My partner a co-coach Mitch lives in the San Antonio market as does Wes is our protégé. This is the same city that “Flip that House” is filmed out of. While I have watched the show, there are a number of things that do not add up to me…like the money spent on rehabbing homes. It is fun to watch and makes for good entertainment but it doesn’t do much for your bottom line.
Lord knows I am not a shy person, but you won’t see much of me in front of the camera. My most precious commodity is time. My wife and I are full time active duty military and we have three wonderful children. My work on the site is often at 2-3am and nobody wants to film me in the dark at that time!
I will pull all of the back-end pieces together of this documentary and move the electrons around so you have fun and learn something. You really have some great investors and people to watch here!
This site is like nothing else ever attempted in the real estate investing world and I hope you appreciate that. We want you to take action after seeing what can be done and look for a mentor in your area. I am not going to push products on you or demand $19.95 in shipping costs to send you some electronic information. At the same time, I am a military guy and don’t like people the WASTE MY TIME! Put the information to good use or get the heck out of the way and let someone else through.
We will provide the majority of the information and occasionally recommend a product but YOU have to take action. This is not a soap opera for entertainment. It is real life, with real people doing real deals. That is my two pennies and for those of you who do not like it…too bad.
For those of you with an open mind and a desire to learn…welcome to the library of success on Wealth Address. We are like no other site out there because we show and teach the REAL DEAL not some made-up fantasy to get your money. Frankly we do not need your money. This is a FUN project we decided to undertake about 4 years ago.
Wes is the fortunate guy but he is going to have to work to be a success like the rest of us.
Just get off the couch and do what he does…you will find yourself in the ranks of successful investors before you know it!
Best of Real Estate Success!
Joe Ponce
http://www.wealthaddress.com/
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