Sharon Restrepo is President of Piranha Properties, Inc., and Performance Realty and Investments, Inc., a real estate brokerage. She is also Vice President of Financial Freedom Through Foreclosures. Dwan Bent-Twyford is President of Financial Freedom Through Foreclosures, Inc., . Her company specializes in teaching 4-Day "boot camps" to real estate investors as well as selling a complete line of training programs. She is also the Vice President of Piranha Properties, Inc. that specializes in wholesaling real estate to investors.

The key to real estate investment success depends on the investor.  Each individual will approach real estate investment in his/her own manner.  Motivation is a key component to that success. Patience to learn a new business is another key.  Bent-Twyford says you can’t give up after a few attempts.  You have to enjoy working with people and have the homeowner in distress in mind.  If you approach distressed homeowners with a bad attitude they will sense this and recognize you as get-rich-quick schemer.  Bent-Twyford and Restrepo believe they have a system that works.  They say if you have a million excuses why it won’t work; it just won’t work. They key then is to follow the system that does work.

Bent-Twyford and Restrepo teach people how to wholesale and flip properties.  She suggests the greatest way to improve your wealth is to invest in real estate wholesaling.  The term flipping has been used to describe wholesaling.  The word wholesaling is simply put exchanging what someone has for what someone wants.  The real estate investor in wholesaling represents the middle man.  You basically find distressed homeowners and put them together with people who rehabilitate homes. Rehabbers are the investors who buy houses to fix up and sell at retail.  This is where the term flipping came in. As a wholesaler it is your job to keep the rehabbers with a steady supply of properties. Once you as the wholesaler find a property for a rehabber you deal a contract.  They rest becomes success.

Among Bent-Twyford and Restrepo’s list of books, they have co-authored,  Foreclosure Fortunes System, Short Sales Secrets: The System and  Turn 10 into 10,000 Wholesale System.