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The Fastest Way to Create Momentum as a Real Estate Investor

25. May 2010

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My six-year old daughter just finished the 1st grade. One of the things the first graders do is they have spelling tests each week. What does this have to do with real estate investing? Stay tuned. She had kind of a rough start with spelling at the beginning of the years. [...]

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When You Are Struggling to get Your Letters to Motivated Sellers

23. May 2010

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One of my clients was struggling with getting a with getting and mailer out to a list of motivated sellers. He came to me for help. I found that the the list he was using was a good list it. It was a list of sellers who have a high likelihood that [...]

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What Every Disorganized Rental Business Lacks

22. May 2010

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Late last year my the rental management business was in total disarray. It was chaos! We lost telephone numbers. We lost track of work orders because we didn’t have a work order system. Basically, we had an information nightmare. Finally one day I’d had enough. I started researching on-line [...]

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Your Tenant Has Abandoned the Property: Now What?

21. May 2010

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Today I got a question from one of my clients who had a property in which the client in which her renter moved out of her property without paying the rent. In addition, her tenant left a whole bunch of stuff in the house. The question she had for me was what she [...]

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The Secret Sauce for Keeping Rental Customers

20. May 2010

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I recently went to the clinic for some treatment. When I got to the front desk, I couldn’t believe how rude the girls were behind the desk. They acted as if I didn’t even exist. When they were finally finished talking, one of them came over and asked me what I wanted. [...]

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Three Critical Upgrades to Make to an 80 year old House

18. May 2010

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I really like buying properties that were built in the 1920’s and 1940’s for rental properties. Why buy such an old house? Simple. I can get these really [...]

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How a Newbie can Land a Money Partner

17. May 2010

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In my last blog post I talked about 2 ways that a newbie real estate investor could get financing. One of those ways was by having 50 – 50 [...]

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