I sometimes wear a string on my finger to remember to do certain things…like looking both ways before crossing the street. Or, like taking stories I hear from tenants with a grain of salt. And then there are the important ones, like remembering to put my family, my health, and my spiritual side [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2010
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. [...]
Continue reading...6. April 2010
Almost all the real estate investors I know have a common complaint: They don’t have enough time. I could remind you that we all have same amount of time, but I know you’ve heard that one already. But it’s true…and we all possess an equal share of this resource. But what [...]
Continue reading...21. March 2010
In his book “Good to Great”, Jim Collins talks about great companies having a “hedgehog concept”. His hedgehog concept comes from the story of a fox plotting time-after-time to get the hedge hog for his next meal. The fox uses one tricky plot after another to catch the hedgehog off guard, but the [...]
Continue reading...11. February 2010
Shortly after the first of the year, I put into play some adjustments to my real estate business to grow my portfolio of cash flow properties. In the past, I’ve set goals and put plans together that have fallen flat. To prevent that from happening to these plans, I used a technique called inevitability thinking. Inevitability thinking [...]
Continue reading...4. February 2010
The other day I was working with a coaching client. This particular client has a number of cash flow properties, and was entertaining the idea of suplimenting his cash flow by doing some wholesale flips. He has a full-time job and someone with whom he has hired as an assistant. He asked me whether or not [...]
Continue reading...31. January 2010
Be among the red hens in real estate who take the long perspective. See life for what it is…new opportunities coming every day to participate. Learn how to say “no” to the reasons, and “yes” to opportunities.
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3. January 2011
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