is to be able to give back, and being a Think Realty coach is a great oppor- tunity to reach real estate investors in a way that can help them in their lives and in their businesses,” he said. BACKGROUND CHECK Harper and his wife, Susan, both work for Sharper Business Solutions. “We help companies and organizations clarify, simplify, and achieve their visions through those six areas that we talked about earlier,” he said. Harper started out in corporate America as a specialist in business outsourcing and was a national manager of business initiatives and development for his
Business Solutions in 2016 with Susan, and describes her as “not only my partner in life, but also my partner in business. I can’t be more thankful for what God has provided for me and my family, and that is why I am so driven to give to others,” he said. GARY HARPER ON “THE RIGHT SUCCESS” “If you’ve spent any time in the real estate market, then you know that there are a lot of educators out there. It seems like everyone who has done a deal wants to teach others how to do it the same way that they did. You must be careful; just because they had
think of to do this is based around breaking the word ‘life’ down into an acronym: Labor, Influence, Finances, and Experience. Everything I do is based around giving of those four things to help others experience the same success in business that I have.” GARY HARPER ON “MAKING THE SWITCH” “One of the things that people often ask me is what made me switch from being a successful person in the cor- porate world to being an entrepreneur and investing in real estate. It comes down to one thing: “At the age of 35, I was bitten by a tick and came down with Lyme dis- ease. I became very ill. We spent nearly a year and hundreds of thousands of dollars searching for a solution. I found myself sitting on the edge of my bed after nine days of no sleep, looking back at my life after being told I was probably not going to make it because the infection had gotten so bad. “I thought to myself, ‘What have I really done?’ I had done nothing but become successful for me, I realized. I had done nothing to help others. From that moment on, I flipped a switch and I committed to making it through, coming out on the other end, and spending the rest of my life giving to others and helping them. Every day since then, that has been my goal and what I’ve worked for.” •
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success in real estate does not mean that it was the right success for them or that it will be the right process for you. They may have the best intentions but do something that is horribly ineffi- cient or that just is not the right path for you even if it worked for them. “The best way to learn real estate is to spend a little time investing in yourself and your processes to make
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employer by the age of 22. “I enjoyed that early success,” he recalled, noting that the company was eventually bought out by a Fortune 500 company. “I spent the next 11 years as an executive for them, and through that time I became an expert in business systems and process management,” he said. Harper also began buying real estate on his own in 2004 and eventually started investing full-time in 2012. He founded Sharper
sure your real estate strategies are di- aled in the ways that are best for you. The people who do this are the ones who have the highest success rates in the industry no matter who they learned from to start with.” GARY HARPER ON “THE LIFE ACRONYM” “I talk about my ‘why’ a lot, and it comes down to being able to give of my life. One of the best ways I can
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