In the last couple of weeks I have been traveling Italy and meeting investors who are looking to buy real estate in the United States. It has been a very intense experience, both in terms of the actual time that went into it but also because of the nature of the people and the content I was able to acquire and to share.

I have finally had proof that not only the concept I have been working on personally can be expanded greatly, but also that it has a far wider potential than I had myself anticipated. Old Europe is looking for new ways to invest and is definitely quite interested in the US which, by the way, has opened itself a great deal to foreign support in all directions: the case of Fiat and Chrysler is just an example of it.

Italy is my own country and one of the fastest in Europe to catch on new trends, so I have been blessed twice by the circumstance of being able to connect the two best suited nations in this very moment and by being supported by some of the best people: Mark Jackson and Sam Bell.

Look at the video where Sam Bell 3rd, My wife Maria Mazzoni, myself and Mark Jackson introduce our project to investors in Montecarlo. It is both in Italian and in English because of the mixed audience.

The key concept I got from all these meetings with all the different investors is that professionalism pays. People trust those who are able to substantiate their offers with real data about the market and the properties and who are also able to explain in simple terms the different mechanisms and documents that go into the action of purchasing from a distance.

Every meeting I had lasted at least 3 hours, during which I was literally pounded with questions on how it would all works and how they could profit from it. Many technical as well as practical questions: all indicating a very, very high level of interest.

I have been blessed in this project by having teamed up with two of the finest investors in the US. The first one is Mark Jackson (alias MJ in my PJs) who is by far the greatest expert in property evaluation (see www.knowyourarv.com) and who has been able to transfer me in no time all the know how I needed to be like a “seasoned” evaluator. The second is Sam Bell III (http://sambell3rd.com) who is the top expert on how to use Web 2.0 strategies for buying and selling real estate in the US.

They both came with me in Montecarlo and Mark held together with me a long presentation to major investors in the Principato di Monaco that jump started my tour in Italy. Listen to a snippet of it live in this post.

Roberto Mazzoni

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She is the wife of a millionaire but still lives into daily adventure. Money can bring complacency and detachment from the the common life of us all, but this is not the case of Lynn Miller who is following the daily adventure of her husband, Mark Jackson, one of the most successful real estate entrepreneurs of our times in the US. A man that I have come to know in an unexpected way but that has already changed the way I am conducting my business and the scale at which I am planning to run it.

As I found out somebody who cares to achieve my very objective: create a bridge between cultures and bring together people who have very different habits, languages and personal situations, but who can have a very clear advantage, also economic advantage, for teaming up together across the ocean.

Mark and Lynn are right now headed to Italy where we will meet together a group of major investors who are looking to do business in the US, and I thank Mark for having taken the challenge and for having even volunteered to learn Italian! Can you imagine it

I am a firm believer that if we are going to make it all we need to cooperate amongst each other. America needs the help of Europe and Europe still needs the help of America.

Lynn recounts in this short interview which I have also translated for Italian viewers, how she and her husband have made it a lifestyle to make business everywhere they go and take joy out of it.

I think this message is very important, more important than you might think. America needs to open up and Lynn and Mark Jackson are already showing how to do it.

P.S. I made this interview on the fly at the Miami airport, catching Lynn and Mark while on their way back from a cruise to Nassau during which they had trained their key students on how to look for properties from a ship! You can hear Mark’s voice while he shooting the video