What inspires Carleton Sheets about real estate

In the early 1950s, William Zeckendorf made real estate history when he dismantled and sold the Empire State Building. He didn’t actually take the building apart and sell it piece by piece—he did it from a legal standpoint. He portioned off everything that had value: the building, personal property, leasehold interests, even the air rights—then sold them all separately, on paper, to investor groups.
Zeckendorf made millions from that one transaction and perhaps, unknowingly, started a whole new trend for creatively buying and selling real estate.
Donald Trump, Ted Turner, Trammel Crow, and a host of other “big hitters” use creative investing principles to acquire real estate, businesses, and public corporations. This elite group of entrepreneurs operates in a rarefied atmosphere that most of us would find difficult to understand.
“How does this relate to me?” you might ask.
Even though you and I may not have Harvard MBAs, and we’re not out to acquire large hotels, develop shopping centers, or take over a movie studio, we do have immediate goals for our financial future. The same creativity and techniques the “movers and shakers” of the world use to achieve their goals can be used at our level, too.
As “everyday” real estate investors, we are developing cash flows—not in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year, but easily in the low to middle six figures. And net worth? Not in the billions of dollars but, many times, in the million-dollar-plus range. And by accomplishing this, we are putting ourselves ahead of 99 percent of the rest of this country.
I want to introduce you to the exciting field of real estate investing where you’ll make more money than you ever dreamed possible. I want to be your mentor and your catalyst for success.
Over thirty years ago, when I was first starting out, I was an amateur investor, too.
Today, because of all the deals I’ve done, all the books I’ve read, all the seminars and courses I’ve taken and, yes, because of the mistakes I’ve made along the way—I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert in the field of creative real estate investing. And I can positively help you avoid making many of the same mistakes I made along the way.