Invest Local: A guide to superior investment returns in your own community

What if you could earn strong investment returns while helping people and businesses in your own community?

In Invest Local, entrepreneur, former business broker, and financing expert David C. Barnett challenges conventional financial planning advice. He introduces readers to the world of local private investing - a space where ordinary individuals can participate in deals traditionally dominated by banks and institutional lenders.

Drawing on decades of experience in small business finance, business brokerage, and private lending, David explains how local investment opportunities can generate attractive returns while being secured by real assets, cash flow, or contractual agreements.

Inside, you'll discover practical examples of investments, including secured loans, equipment leases, receivables financing, inventory lending, vehicle financing, mobile homes, and other creative deal structures that exist in communities everywhere.

More importantly, David explains how to evaluate risk, structure deals properly, and avoid many of the common mistakes inexperienced private lenders make.

This book is not about speculation, trading, or chasing trends.

It's about understanding real businesses, real assets, and real people - and learning how thoughtful investing close to home can potentially create both financial returns and stronger local economies.

If you want to think beyond traditional investing and learn how private capital really works in the small business world, this book will open your eyes to opportunities hiding in plain sight.

This book is NOT for you if you believe the only way to invest is through Wall Street, mutual funds, and handing your money over to giant financial institutions forever.

In David's Own Words-

Most people are taught that investing means handing their money over to a giant financial institution and hoping things work out.

Mutual funds. ETFs. Retirement accounts. "Diversification."

Meanwhile, banks are out there earning excellent returns every day, lending money to people and businesses right in your own community.

So I started asking a simple question years ago:

"Why can't regular people do some of these deals too?"

The answer is: they can.

In Invest Local, I explain how ordinary investors can participate in small, local financing deals backed by real assets, contracts, equipment, inventory, vehicles, receivables, and cash flow.

This isn't about crypto, stock picking, day trading, or chasing the next hot thing online.

It's about understanding businesses and helping finance real economic activity happening around you every day.

Over the years, I've worked in business brokerage, private finance, and small business lending. I've seen how deals are structured, where the risks are, and how smart investors can protect themselves while earning strong returns.

Inside this book, we talk about practical deal-making, risk mitigation, collateral, lending structures, and why high returns do not automatically have to mean reckless speculation.

Most importantly, this book is about taking control of your capital and learning to see opportunities that most people overlook completely.

Because sometimes the best investments aren't on Wall Street.

They're right down the street.

Author: David C. Barnett
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/17/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781497371194

About the Author
David Barnett is a 1998 graduate of the Williams School of Business and Economics at Bishop's University, and a graduate of UNBSJ's Electronic Commerce Management Program. Barnett is a deal making and small business financing expert. From 1998 to 2005, Mr. Barnett was a major account representative in the world of print media. This opportunity gave him an insight into the particular challenges of small & medium businesses as he dealt daily with the owners of these companies. In 2005, Mr. Barnett left the publishing industry to start a small business with a partner. Their venture was an immediate success. After opening, operating and building the business, an opportunity to sell presented itself in late 2006. In 2005, Barnett started acquiring and managing income properties in Moncton, NB. The portfolio grew to 4 properties over the next several years. In 2006, Mr. Barnett began building his professional consulting practice by starting Advantage Liquidity Partners Ltd. ALP Ltd. was a broker of commercial debt solutions for small and medium sized enterprises including commercial mortgages, business loans, factoring facilities, and capital leases. Working with entrepreneurs to build their companies and/or acquire other firms naturally led to the field of business brokerage. Barnett has arranged such financing for over 100 small and medium sized companies. Mr. Barnett joined an international business broker firm in 2008. In 2009, Barnett obtained his internationally-recognized professional designation in business brokerage. After completing an extensive training and testing process in 2009, Barnett was awarded the CMEA designation (Certified Machinery/ Equipment Appraiser) by the NEBB Institute. CMEAs are located throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries, and are used by charter banks, BDC, other lending institutions, accountants, lawyers, business buyers/sellers and others to provide needed financial information for a variety of reasons. Over a 3 year period, Barnett helped intermediate 35 business buy/sell transactions. In December of 2011, Barnett sold his business brokerage and began a role with a global financial institution. In addition to writing, Barnett offers full and half-day seminars on buying small businesses, preparing small businesses for sale, financing small businesses and making local investments.

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