Hi! I’m Donna Bauer, The Original NoteBuyer®.
I started out as a typical soccer mom, babysitting 5 kids for $5/hour.
But I wanted financial freedom for my family. . . while being a stay-at-home mom.
With some prayer, I found the perfect vehicle: Investing in discounted mortgages.
Without using any of my own cash or credit, I was soon making $500/hour instead of $5/hour—quite the raise!
That was over 30 years ago.
Since then, I’ve been committed to teaching others how to build wealth and create a lasting legacy with my note buying strategies.
My note expertise empowers wealthy investors to convert their risky, low-return, traditional portfolios into financial bunkers that can survive a proverbial nuclear economic meltdown—because they’re secured by real estate.
Join me, and I’ll show you why note buying is the fastest, easiest, and safest way to make huge profits and build wealth in real estate.
Enthusiastically,
Donna
Learn How to Make Money with Notes
My Note Training and Note Coaching will help you build Retirement Wealth faster than any other form of note investing or real estate investing.
Read below for your legacy building opportunity.
Study My Courses at The Online Academy
The Original NoteBuyer’s Online Academy is a collection of concise and comprehensive courses carefully curated from my 30 years of note training.
The Fast-Track Courses teach you how to flip seller-carryback notes, as well as how to find note sellers, evaluate notes, perform due diligence, and master the financial calculator, and close the transaction.
The Advanced Techniques Courses will teach you how to grow your IRA, build your own list of investors, buy just part of a note, hold an option on a note, and even how to start your own private lending program.
This is where all of my students start.
*6 months of Easy as 1, 2, 3, Coaching on Flipping Performing Seller-Financed Notes is included with your Online Academy education.
Work 1-on-1 with Me in Easy as 1, 2, 3 Coaching
Get hands-on experience flipping performing seller-financed notes with my personal, 1-on-1 deal coaching.
It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3:
- Use the Online Academy to learn how to find and evaluate notes
- Send me a Note Submission Form with the note details
- I’ll personally walk you through the entire transaction step-by-step, from preparing the offer, to due diligence, to closing the deal
We’ll even use my investors. Or, we can use your funds, if you prefer.
When we close, we’ll split the profit 50/50.
*6 months of Easy as 1, 2, 3 Coaching is included with The Online Academy.
Attend My Saturday Workshop
To help my students hit their targeted goals in 2025, I’ll be having a variety of Saturday Workshops throughout the year.
On Saturday, January 25th, we kicked off the series with “Jump Start Your Note Buying,” where we covered:
- How to Flip a Note
- Where to Find Notes
- Talking to Potential Sellers
- Completing the Note Submission Form
- Preliminary Note Evaluation
If you want to hit the mark in 2025, then this interactive, virtual workshop is for you! Click the button to get the replays today.
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Get The Space Odyssey Replays
In October, I hosted a virtual workshop, The 2024 Space Odyssey: Above & Beyond Note Buying Basics.
This 2-day interactive workshop was designed for my students who want to maximize their profits with my advanced note buying techniques:
- Wrap-Around Mortgage Strategies for Self-Directed IRAs
- Hypothecating Notes Outside Your IRA
- Building Your IRA with Notes
- Starting from Broke
- Creative Real Estate Investing with Notes
Get them individually or in a bundle. Each course includes downloadable video, audio, documents, and/or forms.
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Join My Exclusive Email List
I’ll send you a free case study on “How to Buy a Property with No Money Down and Still Give the Seller Cash at Closing.”
This case study features detailed calculations and covers each step in the transaction. See the power of notes for yourself.
Plus, you’ll get access to training invites and coaching offers that are exclusive to my email list.
I will never sell or share your information.
What My Students Are Saying
As a landlord and rehabber with over 10 years experience, I did not see the power of notes until I met Donna Bauer. Notes have changed my business dramatically. Equity that would otherwise be tied up in a property until sold, is now performing capital with notes. This has allowed for more strategies, much faster growth, and more profit!
Donna understands and cares about the interest of each party in a transaction. For her, a proper fit for everyone’s goals, is more important than making a deal. She is willing to discuss new approaches to the “old way of doing things”, then investigate to ensure in compliance with all laws and regulations.
I’ve done multiple transactions with her. These transactions required an expert due to complexity. She found a way to complete them. She is at the top of her field and will lead the way with innovative solutions and approaches.
Study My Note Buying Courses
Donna is a true Note professional who has integrity, unlike many of the Johnny-come-lately shysters littering the note buying landscape these days. She isn’t about getting rich quickly, but rather slowly and steadily, building a Note portfolio to give you income for life. You are in good hands with Donna Bauer, The Original NoteBuyer.
I took Donna Bauer’s amazing seminar and learned to become a Note Investor. Donna did an amazing job explaining a complicated and sophisticated subject. We gained hands-on tutorials on how to calculate note interest, principal and payments as needed.
However, note investing take a lot of time if done correctly. I am lazy, (but not stupid) so Donna was kind enough to find a Note for me to buy. My friend and I split a $90K Note @ 11% interest. Now, thanks to Donna, we each get 1K every month including principal and interest.
This is so much better than the .01% interest that I would make at the bank. Thanks, Donna! You are the best.
Ever since we bought Donna Bauer’s course we have had the training and courage to create and buy many mobile home notes in our IRA’s. We could not have done it without Donna’s help.
Donna has been very helpful and an inspiration to me with her expertise on notes. I have been given honest, straight forward, great advice, and for this, I highly recommend her to anyone who is open to learning a new way for passive income. There are very few words to describe how much I appreciate all the time, help, and effort she has put into making sure I understand the note buying system.
Attend My Saturday Workshop
Thank you for all you do for us newbies in the note community! I personally got a lot of value from your foolproof 4 step method to calculating the value of notes. The idea of working backwards across the timeline to arrive at the same point was a “lightbulb” moment for me, as was the balloon calculation.
Over the last 15 years, I’ve purchased courses and attended a lot of seminars in different parts of the country, but it was Donna Bauer who truly helped me to change my life.
What made Donna different from any other Real Estate mentor I ever met is that she keeps her promises. She will not put her name on a product or provide a service that she is not proud of. She is also one of the most ethical people in business that you will ever meet.
While most real estate professionals will sell a course and give you concepts, they won’t always tell you exactly what to do to help you succeed; and that’s because they see you as a future competitor. The courses that Donna provides are very complete and best of all, they are not that expensive. If you doubt me, go to a real estate conference some time and see what products are selling for. Then ask other people who bought those courses if it was worth their time and money. Also see how quickly some of those other real estate experts will disappear as soon as they take your money.
Donna has been with me every step of the way and has introduced me to other professionals who are making money and are helping me to do the same. It is very easy to succeed if you know how; if you don’t, you will need to find someone who does. Donna delivers!
One last thing that is personal about Donna is that she is the Mom of a combat Marine. She knows that there is more to life then business and making money. That’s how she runs her business and that’s how she raised her family. She is willing to go the extra mile for others and teaches her real estate students to do the same. Donna Bauer is good people!
Good luck to you and your real estate career.
I have closed a number of note deals with Donna. She has provided the knowledge, insight and training so I can talk to the note seller with confidence, even when I was a neophyte in the note business. Donna’s skill, contacts, availability, and heart make her the #1 asset of my business. I have worked with many gurus, coaches, and mentors over the years; Donna is simply the best!
Work 1-on-1 with Me
In 2013 we learned of Donna Bauer, The Original NoteBuyer, when researching investment websites. Based on a good first impression, we added ourselves to her investment email list. We did not know her personally, nor had we taken any of her investment courses, but later we did respond to an investment opportunity she was offering. Since that time, we have completed three real estate note transactions with her and our rates of return range from 9% to 12%. If the notes are paid off early, a much greater return will be achieved.
Most impressive to us is Donna’s honesty, integrity and professionalism. She does extensive research and follow-up. She makes things happen and resolves issues. She is accessible to us when we need her. She is a woman of her word. She is our real estate note mentor, and we have learned so much from her on the workings of the real estate note investment industry.
Donna has much to offer and we highly recommend her.
Donna, I am very impressed with your materials. I have spent literally tens of thousands on various RE investment courses and bootcamps from all of the top educators in the industry. (You name it – I got it! ) I have to say that I have never seen materials that are as thorough, detailed, in-depth and usable as yours. It is amazing how you anticipate every little detail and every possible problem, and you provide a solution for everything. Thank you very much. I am grateful to have been referred to you.
Replay The Space Odyssey
Buying discounted notes is not a gimmick or fad. It is a sound, time-proven strategy that is used by banks, hedge funds, and other financial institutions as a major part of their daily operations. Although the note buying principles described herein have often proven to be successful for myself and many of my students, they don’t always prove to be successful.
I cannot guarantee your personal results. Your success will be based on a variety factors, some of which you control, such as your dedication to studying and implementing the strategies and techniques that I teach. Some factors affecting your success will be outside of your control, such as general market conditions, property values, payor’s credit, seller motivations, competition, etc. As such, no one can guarantee your personal success at note buying.
But, I can guarantee this: If you purchase my courses and never implement the strategies, they will not work.
-Donna Bauer
Growing Wealth with Notes and a Self-Directed IRA.
CamaPlan is my most trusted administrator for self-directed IRAs. I’ve been using and recommending their services for years. Carl Fischer is a long-time friend who understands how notes work with SDIRAs. He and the staff will be as invaluable to you as they’ve been to me.
Click the button to start your own CamaPlan Self-Directed IRA using my discount.
Note Buying Courses
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The Space Odyssey
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