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Do You Really Know What Business You’re In?

  No matter what business you think you’re in, you are really in “sales”. Your ability to sell yourself, your idea, your product or your service will largely determine your success. Think about it for a minute; can you think of a business or service that doesn’t meet...

Getting Started – Setting Up Your Property Files

    Does It Really Make Any Difference?  When you are just starting out and you only have a few properties, how you set up your office files is probably not something that you think you need to spend a lot of time thinking about. But you will save yourself a lot of...

Do We Ever Really Have It All Figured Out?

  If you are a real estate investor whether you are experienced or brand new, there is something that you probably determined pretty quickly. Just about the time you think you have everything figured out, everything changes. A new year always offers us new beginnings,...

Why Goal Setting Is a Lot Like Home Inspections

I began investing in real estate in 1998. Many of the people that follow my blog know that I owned and operated a successful home inspection business for 17 years prior to making the leap to full time real estate investor. During those years in the home inspection...

Why Both Success and Failure Are Good

  I just read an outstanding article written by Chris Widener about success and failure and how to look at these two things differently.  I would like to share his thoughts on the subject with you as we say goodbye to 2010 and rush head first into 2011. Chris points...

Gratitude Is Like Fertilizer

  At this time of the year, it seems as though the focus is always on material things; another form of the “shiny object syndrome”. Retailers spend vast amounts of money on advertising so that our “wants” will exceed our “needs” and for the most part, they are very...

5 Tips for Lowering Your Heating Bills

  While natural gas prices are lower in some places than they were last year, the cost of heating your home can still be very costly. Every time you sit down to watch the news or you pick up a newspaper, you hear about how natural gas prices are on the rise.  This is...

Christmas Safety Tips for Landlords and Their Tenants

  Landlords are always concerned about safety issues in their investment property. But there is no better time than during the holidays, to remind your tenants of some basic steps they can take to keep themselves and the property they live in safe. Holiday...

Persistence Pays Off Again

  I took a few days off this past week to spend some time with a good friend that came to visit me from Memphis. Those few days really felt like a mini vacation. We shopped and shopped and just had a great time.  However, I have noticed that anytime I decide to...

4 Tips to Keep Unwanted “Critters” Out of Your Properties

  No matter where you live, there are always many types of “critters” looking for a place to get out of the elements and possibly raise a family. And this is the time of year those animals are on the lookout for a nice warm place to spend the winter.  Every year...

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