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Ashley and I just got back from the “What Box” seminar on creative deal structuring presented by Bill Cook and Pete Fortunato. It was great, but I’m not going to lie – by the time we got through with class, my brain was numb. On the car ride home, we talked about the “aha” moments we’d had. One of the things I learned was there’s a difference between deed ownership and tax...
Here’s my current situation: I’m in Fort Walton Beach Florida. As the waves roll in, their sound makes a constant yet subtle roar that I’m sure was designed by The All Mighty to soothe the soul. The bleached white sand gently tapers down into clear, light blue water that mixes with varying shades of green as you move deeper into the Gulf of Mexico — I now understand why they call this...
I was recently invited to a mastermind meeting that had some pretty advanced investors in the room, one of whom was in the habit of buying tax liens – these are liens counties put against properties when homeowners don’t pay their property taxes. Counties do this so they can sell the liens at auction and recoup the funds they didn’t collect from the homeowner. This is called a tax lien...
One of my greatest real estate mentors, Bill Cook, recently asked me to critique the bio he was putting on his new website. You see Bill is a very private guy. So when he asked me to help with writing something personal like that, you’d better believe I stopped what I was doing and gave it my full attention. As I was reading through Bill’s bio, it really stood out how important the...
I was sitting in the living room of a couple looking to sell an unwanted house in Cartersville. The house was their previous home that they’d turned into a rental property. I did what I always do when we sat down. I asked them how could I help them and then I told them, “My job is not necessarily to buy your house. My job is to solve real estate problems. I’m going to ask...