As an investor, you know that time is money. You also know that every day a property sits unrented or unsold you are losing money. In the case of rents, a lost day of rent can never be made up.
So, what do you do when your local inspection office staff is slashed? What happens when [...]
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Last Thursday morning I spoke at a breakfast meeting of real estate investors. One of the questions that came up was about forums on the internet. The person asked me if there were any forums I could specifically recommend for general reading about real estate investing. I named several and noticed the pens flying to [...]
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That is an EXACT quote I received from a “customer service” representative this morning.
You are probably thinking, “So? You must’ve interrupted them.” You are right, I did, several times.
As Paul Harvey liked to say, “and now the rest of the story.”
Yesterday, in the mail, I received a new business VISA card to replace the one [...]
Over the last 18 months I have managed the rewrite of several software tools my partners and I use in our investing businesses. When we embarked on this journey we had very high hopes. We were going to outsource. The outsourcing firms give really GREAT interview, by the way.
Our list of “benefits” was long. We [...]
I am on a quest. I want to add the blogs and other websites you read on a regular basis to this blog. It will be in a blogroll in the right hand column.
You can submit them either through a comment below or the contact me page above. The link will be added as long [...]
Over the years, I’ve read a lot of guru materials. At the predecessor of the Field Guide for Real Estate Investors we used to do extensive evaluations of guru materials. A member would purchase a book, ebook, home study course, etc and send it to us to be examined and evaluated. That experience taught me [...]
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One of the suggestions I’ve received is to make the podcasts more fun using parodies of the gurus.
So, take a listen and tell me if this goes too far. Leave your reaction in the comments below.
http://antigururadio.com/laksdruwqt423ngv384nqwr0e9
Are you tired of expensive seminars and boot camps long on hype and short on help?
Are you tired of gurus [...]
Yesterday, Vice President Joe “The Plagiarizer” Biden said everyone just guessed wrong about the employment numbers. He also said, even though they put forth the myth of The Porkulus Package keeping unemployment at 8% or less for the year, the fact that it is now over 9% AND CLIMBING should not diminish support for the [...]
I got up this morning a little earlier than usual, fired up the MacBook Pro to check email (and because I’m a parent, the weather at the summer camp my son is attending this week.)
Anyway, I open my email and receive this…
I want to thank you, the last segment episode 5 of your podcast is [...]
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Yesterday, I received a phone call asking if I would be interested in speaking at a conference.
“Maybe,” was my reply.
“Great! We want to tie into the anti guru thing you’ve got going there because [removed] isn’t your typical guru. I’m sure once you meet them you will agree they are the real deal and …”
“Do [...]
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