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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…...
You can change the world Recently, I was standing in line at a home improvement store purchasing lights and other finishes for two flip projects we have going. As the cashier was ringing me up, I struck up a conversation with her about how life was going. Life has been challenging for her, to say the least. She is battling kidney disease, one of her children has Stage 4 cancer, and...
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...
Evil’s greatest tool I read a story recently in a book called “Chop Wood, Carry Water” by Joshua Medcalf that I would like to share with you. It goes something like this: Once, there was an evil old witch who was going out of business. As such, she decided to have a yard sale to get rid of all the ‘tools’ she had used over the years in her terrible trade. At the sale, you could...
They think differently than we do Ashley and I were out knocking the pre-foreclosure doors in Whitfield county yesterday. While we were there, we had an interesting experience that I would like to tell you about. The first couple of houses we went to were your normal $125-140k house in nice neighborhoods. I say “normal” because that’s the price range that the average person lives...