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Prioritize and execute For the last two weeks, I’ve been on my eighth reading of a book called “Extreme Ownership, How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. (Well, technically I’m not reading it. The authors are reading it to me via Audible. But this is the eighth time I have listened to it.) This book is awesome. The authors, Jocko and Leif, are two Navy...
What is a market inversion? Are you familiar with the term market inversion? If not, that’s OK. I wasn’t until recently. But as real estate investors, you need to understand what it is, and more importantly, what it means for the current and upcoming real estate market. First off, let me give a quick overview as to what market inversion is from my understanding, and then I’ll tell...
How do you measure success? I was standing in a store the other day buying materials for a project when I saw a friend I haven’t seen for years. He also happened to be buying things for a project he was working on. We talked for a while, catching on up on the past. Toward the end I said, “So, you’re still at it” in reference to his house buying endeavors. He responded with, “Well…...
Invest in yourself I wonder if we, as real estate investors, get so caught up in flipping and landlording that we don’t take time to focus on what the word “invest” really means. One definition of investing is to devote one’s time, effort, energy or money to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result. Now, that’s easy to wrap your head around with a flip...
All work and no play As I write this, I’m sitting at The Feast of Tabernacles, also just called Sukkot. If you aren’t familiar with The Feast of Tabernacles, that’s where Yahweh commanded the children of Israel to live in temporary dwellings for seven days. This is to remind them of the time they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, during which, they dwelt in tents — not houses....