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… and it is the centerpiece of the entrepreneurial game. When we formed Maverick Investor Group in 2007, we were focused from “Day 1” on building a business structure that facilitated our ability to design extraordinary lifestyles, maximize personal freedoms, and control the most precious resources we have—time and mobility.
We strategically reverse-engineered our business structure to support the values and lifestyle freedoms that were our top priority. I will share the principles on which we built our business, which not only afforded us these freedoms but simultaneously resulted in increased productivity. Feel free to swipe the concepts that are useful to you and deploy them in your own business.
I have been a full time real estate professional (licensed agent) since 2007 and started out living in Los Angeles, California at the time. However, I have never bought or sold or listed or referred a buyer to a property in the entire state of California (other than my primary residence).
Maverick might move investment property in California some day, but the point is that the locations where we close properties have nothing to do with where we choose to live.
My business partners and I all live in different states (and for the past several years, I have been living as a digital nomad all over the world). Each of us chose our most desirable location based on our personal lifestyle preferences (After going to high school in Buffalo, NY, I reeeeally gravitate to places with palm trees and beaches! 🙂
Because the cities we live in are purely a lifestyle choice, we are not geographically tied to those cities for business and thus we can move, change cities, or travel as frequently and for as long as we want. The virtual office facilitates remote work locations and is the foundation of establishing the freedom of mobility. It will also enable you to slash traditional office-related overhead expenses and increase profit margins. As long as we have our iPhones and laptops, we are good to go because our clients and the investment properties we work with are in all different cities, states and countries anyways.
If I want to go home for the holidays and spend a month with my family, or bounce between New York, Tokyo and Buenos Aires because they are 3 of my favorite cities, I can do it all while continuing to run my real estate business because of the virtual office setup. Right now, I’m writing this blog post from Little Brown coffee shop on the upper east side of Manhattan….which has awesome espresso by the way!
I started Maverick from a high rise loft building with a rooftop pool deck in downtown LA. When I was in town that was my home office where I worked and met with any clients that were local. There is a lot to be said for optimizing your work environment!
Think of the difference in morale and productivity between being in an office cubicle or even a nice big office with a window vs. a rooftop pool deck overlooking LA. Plus, I didn't waste any time commuting - and I had a LOT to do! Nomatter where I am staying, I can be up at 9:45am and in the office with my espresso by 10am. This doesn’t mean you need to live in a building with a rooftop pool deck or have a compelling view. When I am staying somewhere without a great immediate work environment, I’ll drive to the beach and setup shop by the ocean or roll to a favorite café when I want to work from coffee shop (anybody can do this no matter where you live).
The point is that by creating the freedom to have a remote work location, you can enhance your work environment by choosing the ambiance that inspires YOU, thus increasing your enjoyment and productivity while reducing time wasted on commutes.
Those are some of the core principles. Here is how we designed our business model so that we could offer a high level of value to our clients, differentiate ourselves in the real estate industry, provide rock-star customer service and design our lifestyles in accordance with the principles above…..
Maverick Investor Group is a licensed real estate brokerage that serves real estate investor buyers exclusively and works with referring agents all over the US (and internationally) to serve their real estate investor buyer clients as well.
Our unique value proposition is that we consistently deliver access to unlisted investment properties at prices and terms not available to the public in the most investor-advantaged markets in the U.S. These are all ‘turn-key’ investment properties with tenants and local property management already in place, so real estate investors can comfortably purchase out of state regardless of where they live.
We also offer access to off-shore real estate buying opportunities in emerging international markets. We have built teams on the ground in every market where we operate that handle our real estate investor clients when they come into town. As of today, we have real estate investor clients in almost all 50 states and many foreign countries.
We are not a tax professionals, this is not tax or legal advice, and tax laws are constantly being changed and revised and may change the day after you read this. So, this is for informational purposes only, and it is your duty to consult with your own tax professional about your individual situation and the most updated applicable laws before attempting to implement any of the content in this post.
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