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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...
Full throttle It is about to get busy around here. Normally, the rental side of our investing business is what you call semi-passive income. The reason it is “semi-passive” is two-fold. One is because each month there is some “work” associated with processing payments, updating books and sending out demand letters for late payments. I put work in italics because most of this can be...
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....
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...