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Is it a bubble, is a question I get asked almost daily. I would love to know the answer to be honest but all I can really do is look at the facts and make my best guess. Like many reading this, I lived through 2008 in the real estate industry. It was brutal as we watched housing prices sink in da...
05/27/2021
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach were German engineers in the 1800s and is really the fathers of the modern carburetor and radiator which caused engines to go from eight horsepower to hundreds of horsepower. Without their inventions the world may have never known the car as we know it...
05/26/2021
Yesterday I wrote about what my experience was in buying and selling multiple homes. Rather than just complain about my experience, I thought I would use it as a tool to help an agent or two see what a client sees and what could have been done better. Remember who you work for. That was likely my...
05/24/2021
Over the past years, I have had the unique opportunity to be both an investor and a Realtor, a seller, a buyer and a client of various real estate agents. I wish I could say my experience has been a positive one, something that gives me hope for the industry, but I cannot and keep a straight face...
05/23/2021
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Parkinson’s Law basically states, it is within human nature to fill the available time with work, thus if you are given one week to do a task, you will take the full week, however if you were only given one day to fulfill the task, you would likely complete it in that day.  While Parkinson’s Law ...
12/14/2020
 For those who do not know me well, I flip 10 homes per month currently, own other types of real estate investments and own a real estate investment school, called Pro Investor Education. Today I thought I would explain something that is rather new to the market, not well known and very exciting ...
12/12/2020
Anyone who knows me, will tell you that I suffer from ADHD. I am like the dogs in the movie UP, I see a squirrel and I am off and running. It is easy to throw me off with the mention of almost anything, boom, I am off in that direction while what I need to do is left undone. I flip homes for a li...
07/22/2020
We have all heard it, write down your goals or they are just dreams. My question for many years was simply and then what? I wrote down goals all the time, posted them to walls, in my top desk drawer, on mirrors, said them like a yoga mantra only to not see them materialize, well, until I figured ...
07/09/2020
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Before you give up, keep in mind the story of Henry Heinz. In 1874, after his horseradish product failed, Heinz was arrested for fraud based on the fact he could not repay bank loans he had acquired. Later, while eating dinner at his brother's home, they ate meat which was spoiled, a common pract...
07/07/2020
I tend to be a numbers guy, I guess that is why I ended up in the Real Estate Investment business. I believe the numbers can't lie unless we lie about the numbers. Thus, if you have honest data to begin with you will get an honest answer which cant be distorted by media, politicians or my friends...
05/02/2020
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