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Allen Watkins:
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Allen Watkins:
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Allen Watkins, a real estate investor, broker, REO specialist, business owner, author, and national speaker. This web site is designed to provide you with the knowledge that Allen wish could have been available to him when he first started out. Now you can achieve your financial goals, without going through the "College of Hard Knocks" as Allen did.
A rags to financial independence story himself, Allen began his Real Estate career in Chicago in the early 1983. After quickly losing interest in the typical new Realtor activities, Allen went to work with a Real Estate Broker named Gary Furstenfeld, who became his mentor. He sums up his experience with Gary by quoting Napoleon Hill; "If you feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for life!" With guidance, direction, and Allen's own persistent aggressiveness, he earnestly carved his way into the vast opportunities of dealing with foreclosures and bank-owned properties. His activities ranged from counseling people in foreclosure, (helping them save their equity) to using other people's money (private and cash advances on credit cards), to purchasing property at auctions and from banks. Having performed tens of millions of dollars in Real Estate transactions and owning multi- million dollars worth of rental homes and apartment buildings, Allen expanded his abilities and services in 1991 by starting a real estate marketing business and developing his niche market in the Realtor Industry by focusing on marketing properties in foreclosure and bank owned properties. He is the author of :"The Reality of Real Estate Investing," "The R.E.O. Realtor Marketing Business Course" "The Best Strategies for Buying Bank
Foreclosures" Creator of the fun and educational interactive real estate investment simulation
board game; He has also developed a system for helping retail sellers save thousands of dollars on real estate commissions, while still getting all the benefits of the Realtors' most powerful marketing tool. THE MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE (M.L.S.) COMPUTER SYSTEM. He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows. Is a National Speaker. Has spoken at conventions in Washington DC and Florida. His mission is one of service:
Allen owns the following businesses: Choice Homes Realty (Previously known as Blue Diamond Realty) - Bank Foreclosure management and marketing business. Realty Network Group - Investment Education Business Housing Resource Center - Property acquisitions and management company. Discount Family Construction - Property remodeling and maintenance. Allen is a licensed Real Estate Broker in Illinois and Indiana. While he occasionally conducts business around the Country, his activities have mostly involved the Chicago land area and Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties of Northwest Indiana. He has created 4 web sites which he says is only a fraction of what he has plans for each to become, as time allows for further development. The web addresses www.HomeBargains.com www.KuickClose.com www.HigherYieldInvesting.com www.GetForeclosuresNow.com Allen is a family man and enjoys his beautiful wife, and 3 sons the oldest Chris, is now a partner on several deals. He is also very active in his church where he serves as a Boy Scout Master, and as a Home Teacher. He loves participating in sports such as racquetball, basketball, paintball, Scouting and sports with his boys, He is the Porter County Special Olympics Sports Boosters President, and even plays in a men's "Over The Hill" baseball league. Where he was and how he got started.
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