Mike Butler
While working his full time job as an undercover police detective in
Louisville, Ky, Mike Butler began his real estate investing career by
buying fixer uppers and renting them to make extra money vs. working
“off duty” jobs like most of his police buddies.
Mike discovered very quickly how powerful
investing in real estate could be for his family and quickly exploded
his real estate business by buying 2 rental properties every week while
working his full time job! Mike knuckled down and developed his
amazingly simple and safe “push button” 5M Wealth Autopilot System" with
Investor Books and Tenant Tracking to deliver true financial freedom for
his family.
His proven, simple and safe system allowed
Mike to safely catapult his real estate business. In fact, he owned and
operated over 75 properties before making a huge decision to hire a
“part time” office help to work 5 hours per week.
Mike Butler has NEVER gone to a bank to buy an
investment property nor has he used a private lender or hard money
lender and he started his real estate investing with less than a
thousand bucks!
Now Mike Butler works when he wants to – as a Dad, an investor, speaker,
author, lender, coach and trainer. His investing success has been
featured in Money magazine, The Wall Street Journal Radio network and
numerous radio shows, and his new book “Landlording on Autopilot” made
the #1 Best Seller Book on business on Amazon and has become the
training manual for thousands of landlords and property managers.
Mike Butler enjoys training
millionaires and future millionaires and is a highly sought after
featured speaker and trainer at real estate seminars all across
Be sure to visit his website
at
www.MikeButler.com for live investor
training events, home study courses, and coaching programs.
Mike Butler
K.R.E.I.A. is the Kentuckiana Real Estate Investors Association. Mike is a term past president and currently serves on the board of directors. Mike Butler is a recipient of the prestigious "Ed Melton Award."
NARPM is the National Association of Property Managers and Mike Butler is a Charter Member of the local chapter for Louisville and Lexington, KY.
NaREIA is National Association for Real Estate Investors Associations and Mike Butler has just completed a term on NaREIA's Board of Directors.
Principal Broker for his real estate firm, Vista Properties, Inc. and Vista Realtors.
KREE is the Kentucky Real Estate Exchangers, member.
w is a two term past president of
KREIA and current board member, a charter member of the local chapter of
NARPM, KREE member, and National REIA Director, and supporter of The
Home of Innocents
WealthBuilding 24-7 LLC was founded in May 2002 after Mike Butler was invited to teach his complete bookkeeping system to clients of J. Michael Grinnan CPA.
Mike Butler had developed a very unique, efficient, simple,
and powerful bookkeeping system for his real estate investments using the #1
Accounting Software. He had received many requests from successful real estate
investors and his mentors to teach his proven system. In May 2002, Mike pulled
the trigger and committed to creating a product now called, "TENANT TRACKING".
This product is the result of literally thousands of hours of tweaking and
reviewing different software programs. (Please go the TENANT TRACKING page for
more details on the product.)
WHO IS MIKE BUTLER?
Mike was raised in the south end of Louisville, Kentucky and is
the oldest of 7 kids. He bought his first house before age 20. In 1991, while
buying another rental house, Mike met Ed Melton Sr., who introduced him to the
Kentuckiana Real Estate Investors Association. From KREIA and by attending
workshops and seminars around the country, Mike developed into a focused,
aggressive real estate investor, who takes pride in avoiding banks to buy investment property. He is still very active in KREIA today.
Mike realized early on that he MUST have a strong foundation in order to grow quickly and safely. Mike has reviewed many property management software programs only to discover they fell short of what was needed. Remember, property management software is usually designed for those who manage property for others for a fee. Those programs can cost thousands of dollars plus more for tech support. Mike has spent THOUSANDS of hours tweaking and researching Quickenâ and QuickBooks Proâ. His method is getting the results that he needs.
Mike has taught short introductory classes on getting started using these two programs and has been swamped with requests to “set up” investors with his method of using this program.
He enjoys
teaching and helping fellow investors; however, with so many requests, he
decided to create courses that TEACH fellow investors how to use these programs
to suit each investor’s individual needs. He's created programs along with
workshops for Tenant Tracking and Investors Books made EZ! Along with showing
investors these powerful cash flow enhancing and profit producing tools of
operating 100+ properties part time while working a full time job, many
investors demanded Mike show them his insider secrets on how to make investing
explode safely while working your full time job.
Because of all the requests and demands, Mike has developed simple, step
by step, easy investor programs and Boot Camps geared specifically to those
investors who have JOBS. Mike will never tell you to abandon your job and take a
chance with real estate investing. He won't buy your groceries if it doesn't
work out for you. Mike believes you should SAFELY and aggressively grow your
real estate so you can transition SAFELY from your job to real estate with
absolutely no risk. Simply put, grow your real estate to REPLACE and exceed your
job income, then make the transition.
Mike admits the bookkeeping subjects are boring; however, like Rue McFarland says, “investing in real estate is a get rich slow program”. With effective property management and effective bookkeeping, you will get rich slowly and have fewer headaches, nightmares, and expenses. You will be able to spend more time on what you want to do in life and you will have all the detail to CYA.
Successful investing utilizing TENANT TRACKING and effective property management and bookkeeping techniques enabled Mike to retire in March 2000 after 13 years as a Louisville Police Detective.
Today, his rents exceeds 1 million dollars annually!
Mike was featured Money magazine, June 2001, in the article “Can Real Estate Make You Rich?”. He is a Kentucky licensed real estate broker, a realtor, member of KREE, and a charter member of NARPM. (look for these groups on our links page)
check out his website www.VistaKY.com to see his real estate in action!
Mike thanks his wife Tammy, his daughters Rachel and Melissa, for all of their sacrifices, support, and confidence. Special thanks to the Kentuckiana Real Estate Investors Association. He attributes much of his success to this association.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWERFUL!
Your Education should NEVER STOP!