Alan Brymer

Alan Brymer

Alan Brymer is the creator of The Assistant Who Pays Their Own Salary and the Founder and President of the Utah Valley Real Estate Investors Association. He has been a full-time investor since his first property at the age of 22 and has raised millions in private funding. Alan's investment company was named by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum as one of the ""Top 25 Companies Under Five Years Old."" He is a frequent guest expert for the news media, having been featured on multiple television programs as a real estate expert, published in 12 magazines nationwide, and as a speaker at seminars and associations around the country. In addition to his real estate experience, Alan is an expert at systemizing businesses. Like many, he attended seminars and bought courses but found that while the techniques of real estate are frequently taught, there were no courses that showed how to run a business in the level of detail that he was searching for. He began to develop systems for his own real estate business, which has allowed him to do more deals in less time each month. He has incorporated these into his consulting and is now presenting them as complete systems modules, the first of their kind for real estate investors."

    Alan Brymer's Articles

    • You’ll Never Sell Your Real Estate Business, So You Should Automate It

      Businesses, like real estate, can be planned, built, finished, and sold for a profit. But what if you own a business that buys and sells real estate? It’s not the same. The best you can do is sell the real estate that you’ve bought, and that’s the end of it. No one will buy your business and pay you several times your current yearly profits, as they would other businesses. Stinks, doesn’t it? I’ll go into the details of why this is, but also offer this self-coined truism as a consolation prize:”You’ll never sell your real estate business, so you…

    • Serial Entrepreneurship = Serial Mediocrity

      Why does every go-getter investor-type want to start multiple businesses?I’ll tell you the three reasons why, regardless of what they tell you:FearMacro-A.D.D.Mistaken belief in how most entrepreneurs actually get wealthyReason #1: FearI have heard comments like, “Do enough things to make money and one of them is bound to work!” This is like mixing every ingredient in your kitchen and saying “It’s bound to taste good!”I can tell you that the folks who say things like that are so afraid that their ventures will not work, that they actively engage in several of them in a misguided attempt to ensure…

    • Other People’s Time is Like Other People’s Money

      Money and time have a few things in common. Both are required to be successful in real estate, but everyone’s personal supply of both has its limits. Fortunately, you can use OPT (Other People’s Time) in real estate just as you can use OPM (Other People’s Money) in order to do more deals and avoid being a slave to your business.When we hear about real estate deals that don’t require any money, it usually means that money is needed to do the deals, but that money comes from private lenders, from the sellers, or from buyers. Money makes the world…

    • Only a Tired, Broke Investor Does Everything Himself

      Why do you think most investors get into real estate to begin with? Is it because they like wading through three feet of trash inside of dilapidated junkers? Is it because they savor talking on the phone so much that they found a way to make money doing it? Could it be because they enjoy leaving their families at the dinner table in order to spin tires and get a deed signed by a seller who waited until the night before the auction to finally do something about their problem?The odds are that if you’re anything like me, you don’t…

    • Investing Full-Time is Overrated

      I’ve been investing in real estate full-time since I graduated from college five years ago. I guess you could say I did it part-time while I was also juggling college classes, homework, papers, and another student job. Now it only takes me an hour or so per day, so you tell me how to classify it now – full time? Part time? Who cares? I’m doing what I want to do with my life and I encourage everyone to do the same, whatever that may be.At any rate, I’ve met a lot of investors who are itching to get to…

    • How to Avoid Training Your Competition

      One of the questions I am asked frequently is, “If I get an assistant, how do I avoid training my competition, but also get someone with the initiative to make things happen on their own?”This question assumes that the only people with initiative are those who are interested in investing in real estate. This is simply untrue. Don’t you know plenty of people who are interested in real estate, but don’t take the initiative to do anything about it? Likewise, there are plenty of people with initiative who would be willing to work as your personal assistant, but are not…

    • Guidelines for Moving On Up to Commercial Property

      Most real estate investors get started buying single-family houses, probably because it’s what we’re the most familiar with. But whether you’re going straight to the big time or are ready to advance from houses to larger (and more profitable) deals, here are 10 time-tested guidelines to follow that will help you have more success.Tip #1: Think BigIf buying a 5-unit apartment requires you to get commercial financing, which is more of a hassle, then why bother? I would recommend buying properties with at least 10 units. Remember that the more units you buy, the cheaper they are per unit. Also,…

    • Cries of Fraud: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth 60 Megatons of Cure

      The good old days of doing business on a handshake have gone so far away that the Hubble telescope couldn’t find them. Even at my tender age, I have witnessed enough legal action resulting from deals gone awry, sellers-turned-psycho, and downright skullduggery to make even the most hardened investor’s blood curdle. And the heat of the battle takes place, unfortunately, in one of the best arenas to make an honest living in: real estate-pre-foreclosure investing.Who is to blame? Sometimes the seller, sometimes the investor. If I had to make a guess as to who causes the most problems, it would…

    • Why No Real Estate Investor Can Live Without an Assistant

      Having an assistant is one of the best investments you’ll make as a real estate entrepreneur. Like all parts of your business (and yes, buying, leasing, and selling houses is a business), they require an investment of your money and also your time. You’ll need to invest a little money in order to hire, train, and compensate them for their services. And, you’ll need to invest some time to help them get the job done right – more in the beginning and much less as time goes on.In exchange for your investment in them, a good assistant will help you…

    • Running TV Ads to Find Deals

      I used to run TV ads in order to find houses to buy, and I’ll give the pros and cons of doing it.1) One plus is that more people are seeing your ad for every dollar spent than just about any other media. This can help to build brand awareness so that if someone falls into trouble a year after they saw your ad, they will hopefully remember your company’s name and look you up.2) It will also increase your response rate with other ads you’re running. If someone sees your commercial one day, doesn’t respond, and then later gets…

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