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What is 2025 going to look like? Let me start this column off by saying “Happy New Year!” as well as expressing some sincere appreciation. Today marks the completion of the eighth year of me writing weekly to you and is the 415th column I’ve had the privilege of having published. That is a long time and a lot of columns. And without you being my readers, without your feedback and...
Today you are an investor I recently participated in the Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon. I love this event. It’s put on by Team Magic, a company that organizes/ sponsors runs and multisport events across the southeast. And they do an amazing job. The waterfront triathlon is a larger event with close to 1,000 athletes showing up to swim, bike and run, in that order, one of two distances....
Note well the state of your flocks Have you ever read the book of Proverbs in the Bible? If not, check it out sometime. It was written by King Solomon who was called the wisest man who ever lived. He led Israel to become one of the most prosperous nations on earth and amassed great personal wealth. The reason I bring that up is because the book of Proverbs is a book of wisdom Solomon...
What does the seller need? This week I saw a couple of good questions asked about how to get deals done. One was with a subject-to deal and the other was a preforeclosure. Today I would like to go over them and talk about the most common mistake that beginner investors make when talking to sellers. The first question was about a subject-to deal. And as a reminder, that’s a deal where you...
Finding Good REI Teachers Makes All The Difference When Ashley and I got started in investing, we fell prey to one of the big-name teaching circuits. What I mean by that is we went to one of the free seminars, that led to the $100 class that was really a dog-and-pony show to sell their overpriced, and as I later found out, somewhat antiquated classes on how to become a real estate...