Nancy Wallace-Laabs

Nancy Wallace-Laabs Real Estate Investor & Coach 🔑
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09/04/2026

What if you don’t need more information? What if you’re actually looking for certainty?

There’s a point where more research stops helping us make a decision.

Another video.
Another opinion.
Another spreadsheet.
Another conversation.

Before you keep searching, ask yourself three questions:

What specifically don’t I know?
If there’s an answer, go find it.
Would knowing that actually change my decision?
If not, more research probably isn’t the answer.
Am I looking for information or certainty?

That last one matters.

Because no amount of research can guarantee an outcome or remove every risk.

Sometimes you already have enough information to make an informed decision.

Confidence usually follows decisions. It rarely comes before them.

What if you already have enough information to make the decision, but you keep looking anyway?One more opinion.One more ...
09/03/2026

What if you already have enough information to make the decision, but you keep looking anyway?

One more opinion.

One more podcast.

One more spreadsheet.

One more conversation with someone who has done it before.

It feels like you're being responsible.

You're doing your research.

But at some point, there's a question worth asking:
Am I still looking for information, or am I looking for certainty?

I've seen this many times with people considering real estate investing.

They know the price. They've run the numbers.
They understand the financing.
They know the rent.
They've considered the risks.

Then they ask five more people what they think.

Could this be you?

Sometimes we aren't looking for another piece of information.

We're hoping someone will tell us:
“Yes. This is absolutely the right decision.”

But no one can guarantee an outcome.

Watch the full episode. Link in comments.

You may have been learning about money long before anyone actually taught you about money.Think about what you saw growi...
09/02/2026

You may have been learning about money long before anyone actually taught you about money.

Think about what you saw growing up.

Did your family talk openly about money?

Did they invest?

Did they avoid debt at all costs?

Did they buy new cars or drive them until they practically fell apart?

Did they believe a good job was the safest financial path?

Those experiences become our definition of “normal.”

Then we grow up and assume we're making completely independent financial decisions.

But are we?

I've watched this play out around kitchen tables when family members have completely different opinions about the same house, the same offer and the same numbers.

I've experienced it myself with real estate investing.

Nobody in my family owned rental properties. It wasn't something we talked about. Once I began surrounding myself with people who did invest, something changed.

Real estate investing started feeling normal.

That doesn't mean every belief we learned from someone else is wrong.

It means we should know where our beliefs came from before allowing them to make decisions for us.

That's what I'm exploring in my newest YouTube episode:

Who Really Shaped Your Beliefs About Money?

Watch the full episode. Link in comments.

What are you building for yourself?That's the question behind the CE class I'm teaching at MetroTex REALTORS® this week....
09/02/2026

What are you building for yourself?

That's the question behind the CE class I'm teaching at MetroTex REALTORS® this week.

Realtors have access to market information and real estate opportunities every day. Invest in Yourself: Building a Personal Portfolio is about learning to look at some of those opportunities through a different lens.

2 hours CE | MetroTex Virtual
September 3 | 10:00 a.m.

Registration through MetroTex REALTORS®.

Pricing a house isn't about pulling three comps and averaging the numbers.That's one of the things we'll be working on i...
09/02/2026

Pricing a house isn't about pulling three comps and averaging the numbers.

That's one of the things we'll be working on in Pricing With Confidence, another CE course I'm teaching for MetroTex REALTORS® this week.

This time I'm making the class much more hands-on.

We'll work through actual properties, search for comps, decide which ones belong and which ones don't, establish pricing ranges, look at rental comps, and practice explaining the numbers to a client.

Because running a CMA is the easy part.

Knowing what the data is actually telling you is where the skill comes in.

Pricing With Confidence
3 hours CE | MetroTex REALTORS®

You finally got a lead.Now comes the part that costs many new investors the deal.They don't know what to do with it.They...
09/02/2026

You finally got a lead.

Now comes the part that costs many new investors the deal.

They don't know what to do with it.

They either move too quickly because they're afraid of losing the opportunity, spend too much time trying to make a bad lead work, or fail to follow up with the leads that actually have potential.

A lead is not a deal.

It's information that needs to be evaluated.

In our next live webinar, Kelcie Leka and I are breaking down what happens after the lead comes in:

• How to determine which leads deserve your attention
• What information you need before moving forward
• Why some leads should be followed for months while others should be dropped quickly
• How to avoid letting excitement or fear drive the decision
• When to pursue, when to follow up, and when to walk away

Finding opportunities matters.

Knowing how to recognize the right ones matters more.

Join us live Tuesday, September 15.

Registration link in the comments.

09/02/2026

What if the financial rule you’ve been following isn’t actually yours?

“I could never do that.”

“That’s too risky.”

“That’s just not how I handle money.”

We say things like this as though they’re facts.

But sometimes they’re beliefs we picked up years ago from our parents, friends, spouses, coworkers or simply from what we saw everyone around us doing.

That doesn’t make those beliefs wrong.

It just makes them worth examining.

The next time you automatically dismiss a financial option, ask yourself:

Did I decide this for myself, or did I absorb it from someone else?

You may come to exactly the same conclusion.

But this time, it will be your conclusion.

Realtors spend a lot of time helping other people build their real estate portfolios. But how often do we stop and think...
09/01/2026

Realtors spend a lot of time helping other people build their real estate portfolios. But how often do we stop and think about our own?

I'm teaching Invest in Yourself: Building a Personal Portfolio for MetroTex REALTORS®, a 2-hour CE course focused on something I think deserves more attention in our industry.

Commission income can be unpredictable. At the same time, Realtors have an unusual advantage: we see properties, price changes, distressed situations and potential investment opportunities every day.

In this class, we'll look at:

• Income versus financial stability
• What a personal portfolio can look like
• Ways Realtors can participate in real estate beyond listings and buyers
• Different financing options for investment properties
• How to recognize opportunities that may already be right in front of us
• Real examples from deals I've worked on

The goal isn't to turn every Realtor into an investor.

It's to get Realtors thinking about a different question:

We're helping our clients make real estate decisions every day. What are we intentionally building for ourselves?

Registration is through MetroTex REALTORS®.

“I’ll think about it next year.”It sounds like you haven’t made a decision.But what if you already have?If you put off i...
08/29/2026

“I’ll think about it next year.”

It sounds like you haven’t made a decision.

But what if you already have?

If you put off investing for another year, you’ve decided what happens with that money for another year.

If you stay in the same job, you’ve decided where you’ll spend another year of your career.

If you postpone the retirement conversation again, you continue with the plan you already have.

None of those decisions are necessarily wrong.

Waiting can be exactly the right choice.

But there’s a difference between saying:

“I considered my options and decided to wait.”

And:

“I’ll think about it later.”

One is intentional.

The other can quietly become your default.

And while you're deciding, the circumstances around the decision keep changing.

That's the idea behind my newest YouTube episode.

Not that you should hurry up and make a decision.

But that you should recognize the decisions you're already making.

Watch Every Time You Say “Later,” You’re Making a Decision.

Link in comments.

08/28/2026

How many decisions in your life did you actually make — and how many just became the default?

Same job. Same house. Same financial habits. Same plan.

Sometimes continuing what we've been doing is absolutely the right decision.

But there's a difference between intentionally choosing to stay where you are and simply staying there because it's comfortable and familiar.

Every now and then, ask yourself:

Would I still choose this today?

If the answer is yes, keep going.

If it isn't, maybe it's time to look at the other options you haven't considered yet.

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