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Last night while my wife went with my oldest son to a Boy Scout meeting. My younger son and I stayed home. I spent the time up until midnight making 49 out of the soon to be 100 short videos about real estate. If anyone has any ideas on how I can make these better, feel free to let me know. Also...

A client of mine owns a piece of land in San Pablo California. there are some issues with access to the property.   You can build multi units on the land and the price is very low.  Does anyone have any ideas on where I can market this unique piece of land?  

Hopefully everyone is as busy as I have been recently. I wanted to post something here every week and have not done so. I have been busy selling houses to referrals! A few years ago a guy called after receiving one of my post cards. He wanted to sell his 4 plex. His first question was "What's the...

Are things really picking up? Am I crazy? I hope everyone had a great Easter and is ready to work hard as all the buyers flood our e-mail in-boxes and voice mails with requests to write up offers. For the first time in a LONGGGGG time, a client of mine asked me about a property and I had to say,...

Waiting for a client to come in so he can sign an offer on a $220,000 house. We made an offer on a $230,000 house last week in Fairfield California. The listing agent was extremely rude to me just because I expected her to return my phone calls. It seems she had 8 offers on the place and thought ...

Here is a house where the seller will cooperate with the Nehemiah Program. Who has any ideas about where I can advertise? Is Zillow effective at all? I have not done a zero down Nehemiah deal in a long time. Is anyone out there attracting buyers by advertising that their seller will go with the N...

Thanks for taking a look at my blog. I have just gotten started with this and whoever wants to give me some advice, please be brutally honest! Here is a video I made last night in regards to 110 % financing. If consumers have questions, especially if you want me to send you listings of homes for...

It's 10:35 PM and I have spent most of the day working on videos. I made a video directing people to a listing of mine where the seller will sell via the Nehemiah Program. I made a video of the interior. I made a directional video from the East and from the West. Also, I made a video about Nehemi...

My good friend Brad Andersohn has gotten me so addicted to Active Rain, that I am trying quickly to get this blog done so I can run out the door to go pick up someone on the way to a film festival. I just made a video using my new $45 web cam. I should be in the car now, but instead I am on AR. I...

Here is the second video we made today. We will go more in detail about what we do and how we do it. This was almost a practice. If anyone wants to tell us what we can do to improve, we would love to hear it. I guess since this is a trilogy, there should be 3 parts. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy...