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The best deal you’ll ever do About this time two years ago I wrote to you about a house that I was trying to buy for Ashley in a column titled “Don’t get emotional when making offers.” That was the one where I did get emotional and offered the seller double what he was asking for it… you read that right. The reason I got emotional was because it seemed like it was the house of Ashley’s...
My cheese moved… again Today I’d like to tell you about a little book that if you have never read, you really should. It’s called “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson. It’s a tiny book that packs a huge amount of insight into how people should deal with change, and it’s in the form of a fable. The story starts by identifying four characters who spend their time exploring a maze...
The End of Year Review in Spring You may not know this, but it is almost the New Year. No, I didn’t write this in 2023. It’s March of 2024, the spring equinox just happened, and that means spring is here. And according to Exodus 12:2 in the Bible, Yahweh tells Moses and Arron that this is the beginning of the year and goes on to give them the instructions of the spring feasts called...
Participation lenders When you think of private money lenders, you typically think of either short-term lenders, or long-term lenders. Short-term lenders are the ones you use on quick moving deals like fix and flips and wholetail deals. And if you are not familiar with a wholetail deal, that’s a melding of the words wholesale and retail. What you do in this scenario is buy the...
Hope for the best, but get the rest in writing! I like to think of myself as a positive person. So much so that I think they made a little mistake when they did my blood type. You see, they say I’m B-negative, but I disagree because I tend to be positive. So, there is a little discrepancy there. But all kidding aside, I enjoy being around other positive, upbeat people. I don’t watch the...