Acknowledgments

THIS BOOK IS a collection of years of experience. What you are reading is our refined trial and error methods that helped us create systems that produced us millions of dollars of gross commission income a year in the REO business.

We would like to thank everyone we have worked with and come across in our day-to-day business operations: all the real estate agents, title companies, finance companies, vendors, banks, sales representatives, and asset managers. Unfortunately we can’t name you all because of the confidential nature of the business but you know who you are.

We’d like to specifically thank our REO team for being with us from day one and contributing to our success and your success. Also, to all those agents and brokers we coached one-on-one; every day is a learning experience and a new battle that truly makes you stronger. Keep your eye on the prize and remember persistence wears resistance.

Next, we would like to thank our publisher, Glenn Yeffeth; our editor, Leah Wilson; and the entire publishing team at BenBella Books, Inc. You have a remarkable organization and an entrepreneurial spirit. You have done a whole lot to make REO Boom such a huge success. Also, we would like to thank Jonathan D. Nicholas for his diligent marketing and PR work; you put great quality information in the hands of great people; that’s explosive!

In addition, we would like to thank the National Association of Realtors, the members of all the local Boards of Realtors, and the Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers for their visionary thinking in bringing REO education to the forefront. Also, we would like to thank all the REO organizations for continuous education, support, and the up-to-date market stats in the business.

Both of us want to thank our families and our significant others, including Aram’s wife Melissa Arias Shah, for their love and support. You mean so much to us and we love you. We also want to particularly thank our parents, Mukesh and Daksha Shah. You taught us the most important values—education, love, perseverance, and faith—that carried us through all the ups and downs in our lives. We are truly a product of your environment.

Finally, we’d like to thank all the real estate agents in the world who know how to face adversity and are not afraid to adapt to change. We hope this book can touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of agents like you, while helping you achieve financial success in your REO business.

We wish we could have had a step-by-step guide when we started. Thus, the value you will receive after reading this book is priceless, as it is our “blood, sweat, and tears.” We challenge you to finish this book cover-to-cover within the next thirty days and begin implementing the systems immediately. Our goal is to input seeds into your garden and help you grow them through our trials and tribulations.