John-Paul's Blog

I network market electricity! How simple is that? Everybody uses it, everybody needs it! We offer better pricing than the encumbants and electricity is electricity; it’s recession proof and fool proof! There are no lotions, potions or pills and I don’t have to call up my customers every month and say, ”Hey would you like more of that electricity?”  Electricity is habitually used and unconsciously purchased. It is truly getting paid for what you start. www.johnpaul.igniteinc.biz

Hello, this is John-Paul’s Mom.  He asked me to post this blog on my Network Marketing venture with Ignite, the marketing arm of Stream Energy Gas & Electric - as a minor, John-Paul’s legally not allowed to say anything about electrical deregulation and what an awesome opportunity it presents for cashflow. 

We found out about this opportunity the first weekend we met Mr. Kiyosaki and the Rich Dad team of advisors back in June of 2005. Ignite was a vendor at the Rich Dad seminar and we decided to, “Do something different.” I had never done anything like this before, nor had I ever felt inclined, but honestly, I have never regretted our involvement for a financial minute! www.johnpaul.igniteinc.biz

Mr. Kiyosaki says if you are poor, the cheapest way to achieve wealth is through network marketing. For $325, I was in business. In 24 hours, I was in the profit zone and that profit zone has been priceless.  www.johnpaul.igniteinc.biz

I am thankful to my son and my family for all we have learned together!  - Cynthia    www.johnpaul.igniteinc.biz

An essential component of business growth and development is networking. Networking is the means by which you learn from others what they have done that has been successful or what they have done that hasn’t been successful. If you learn from people who have fallen and gotten back up, then they can show you how not to stumble on your road to financial freedom.

One of the ways I have been networking lately is through the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. A couple days ago, I had the pleasure of meeting with the President of this chamber, Ms. Navejar. The chamber offers some great business courses in marketing and publicity, negotiation, imports & exports, zoning and public permits – while zoning sounds unexciting it is one of the key ways to increase your property value and wealth. The people teaching the courses are involved in the field and I feel knowing who to go to and how to tackle issues is one ways to alleviate fears that may hold back the success of your business management.

It does cost some money, depending on how big your company is, but it is a miniscule amount compared to the advantages that the chamber offers. And even though it is the Hispanic Chamber you do not have to be Hispanic to join, or even look Hispanic as in my case. In my case I am twenty-five percent Hispanic and twenty-five percent Finnish and though I look completely Finnish - they are still letting me in. I highly recommend that you meet Ms. Navejar and visit the Chamber at http://www.fwhcc.org. And plan to network business growth.

I am a Wayne-iac. By that I mean I am immense fan of Mr. Wayne Palmer’s. My family and I had the distinct pleasure of hosting lunch at our house for Mr. Wayne Palmer and Mr. John Spinola this past September. And for dessert, we had REAL ESTATE! We combed the neighborhoods and I feasted for hours on learning and discerning what makes real estate truly yummy. 

To be true, I learned a lot that afternoon.  The first thing I learned is that you make your money when you buy, not when you sell!  That’s the Rich Dad way.  As a general rule, the Rich Dad advice is not to turn properties for capital gains, but to cashflow property.  Second, you have to crunch your numbers.  And lastly, once you find the deal, the way you tie the deal up can make the opportunity that much more sweet!  The icing on the cake is called creative financing. 

As a hypothetical example of icing on the cake; I had my eye on a college area home that was a fixer-up.  In the special provision portion of the real estate contract the following, hypothetically, could be written; “The property is in deep need of repair.  $10K to be placed in escrow to assure seller of property upgrades (repair bills will be paid from escrow). Seller to carry back the balance of $45K (my hypothetical offer) with no interest and no payments for 1 yr.  On the 13th month, monthly payments will be made at 6% interest based on 30 yr. amortization.  Balance to be paid in full 5 yrs. from the date of closing.”

The goal is to get the property functioning and in the profit zone in six months while you still have six months interest free. The property owner the first year gets 10K of upgrades to his property which hypothetically speaking has been trash rented for 17 years. This blighted property has not rented regularly and when rented has not brought the going rate.  I offer five years of 6% interest and payment regularity with a balloon payoff in five. I get in with cost of repairs, no money down and five years worth of gains to put towards a down payment.  That’s at least what I understood as the gist of this hypothetical offer.  Did I get it right Mr. Palmer?

P.S. By the way, Mr. Palmer beat me soundly in a rousing game of nerf hoops! I’m yelling for a rematch though.

(See www.richdadunderground.com for conference details.)

2/7/07

Hello, this is John-Paul, 

This is my first blog I have ever written so this is a new experience for me!  I am very excited!

Today is a Superman day!  What I mean by that is that I had an over the top day in stock trading. Back home in Michigan they have a flavor of ice cream called Superman.  So when I trade well I get treated to my favorite ice cream, Superman! - only down here in Texas we can’t find Superman ice cream!  To make things even, when I have a terrible trading day I get treated to ice cream too - then I am taking in the flavor Blue Moon - only I can’t find any of that down here in Texas either! It’s a good thing I like ice cream any way it comes so that any scoop satisfies.

To date, my best day trading virtually was $710.  Today was $1200 even!  Gotta love it for half an hour worth of work!  If you want to learn to day trade check out this link www.onlinetradingacademy.com.