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Choosing the right agent Choosing the right real estate agent is something that’s important when buying — and especially when selling — real estate. This is because agents aren’t one-size-fits-all for every deal. And finding out what an agent is good at, and where they are located will help you determine whether or not you should hire them. Let me explain. Not all...
Be very careful right now You may not know this, but we lost the very first real estate investment deal I was ever a part of to foreclosure. How’s that for a credential? It wasn’t a house we had bought to flip or rent out. It was a house my family was building to live in for a few years and then sell to bolster my parent’s retirement. The year was 2005, and I was still living at...
Controlled chaos Sometimes, things are just hectic. In the real estate world, however, I think you have to accept that things are constantly going to come up and alter your plans. You’ll have to succumb to the fact that you will be living a life of controlled chaos at work. Take this morning for instance. I got through with my workout and went to go see V (short for...
One-sided This week I got a call from an agent to go look at a potential deal. It was a 5-bedroom/ 3-bath house with over 3,000 square feet located in a very desirable area priced at only $100,000. When you see deals like that, you stop what you are doing and get to the house as soon as humanly possible. It wasn’t hard to spot which house I was going to when I turned into the...
$2 in the tank This morning’s workout was exceptionally difficult for me — yet it was not an exceptionally difficult workout. I just had no energy. You know, most of the time you get a second wind when you’re working out. But for me this morning, I never caught my first wind. It’s kind of weird, too. I ate well yesterday. I went to bed on time, and I don’t remember tossing and...