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What exactly do you do? I have to confess that I’m guilty of something. I don’t do a lot of self promotion. Here is a case in point: This particular column marks the beginning of my sixth year writing this weekly article about real estate investing and then posting it to my blog. Yet I have friends and family who have no idea that I do it. I just don’t broadcast it. Self promotion...
Taking Ownership Well, I got some not-so-great news yesterday. It happened on a pretty big rehab we have going over in Calhoun. And by big, I’m talking about a complete gut job. This house had a condemned sticker on it when we bought it, if that gives you any inclination as to its condition. But after some inspection and planning, we were able to get the building inspector’s office...
A great reason to have assets I was talking with a friend recently who was going through a tough time. You see, my friend had had some medical complications that had caused her to have multiple surgeries over the past few years. (By multiple I mean 10 plus.) To make a long story short, every time the surgeon would go in to fix the problem, it weakened the adjacent area, which it would...
Creative offers Ashley and I were two broke kids straight out of college when we got started in real estate investing. We had a mound of student loan debt and no money in our pockets to invest. And because we had either been self-employed or full-time students while in school, we had no real, verifiable income. That fact, coupled with a high debt to income ratio from the loans, meant...
An investor needs a blue pen Ashley and I have been blessed to have had some of the best real estate investor teachers in the world. What differentiated guys like Jack Miller, Peter Fortunato, Dyches Boddiford and David Tilney, along with their seminars, from others was they were not in the seminar business. What I mean by that is I’ve been to classes before that are a sell-a-thon...