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Wholesaling Commodities When you think of a wholesale busi- ness, you may picture large ware- houses full of stored merchandise. With furniture or appliances, for example, the retailer isn’t buying di- rectly from the manufacturer, since
the manufacturer is in the business of “ making ” things and not usually in the business of distributing them. They work through wholesalers to make this happen. Wholesalers have to put up a pretty big investment in order to get started, from leasing the warehouse to stocking it with furniture or appliances and getting the merchandise to retailers when they place an order. They make their money by selling to the retailer at a small markup over what they pay the manufac- turer. A wholesaler is often seen as a middleman between the manufacturer and the end user. The middleman makes a profit for his service and so will you. Real Estate Investing When you think of real estate investing, you usually think of buying properties and holding them as rental units for the long term, or buying, fixing, and flipping them for short-term profits. These are the “ big picture ” real estate investment techniques practiced by the vast majority of investors.
Like commodity wholesalers, these investors tie up money for short or long periods in order to make money.
If you were starting out in either of these businesses today, you wouldn’t normally be reading about how to do it in 30 days guaranteed. And you definitely wouldn’t be reading that you could do it using no money of your own. That is where my blue- print program for success is different from any other program
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