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What Motivation is the Key to Success in Real Estate?

A blog post by Nick Johnson a few weeks ago (Nick if you read this could you help me find it?) spurred me into thinking about what is my motivation for wanting to become a real estate investor. Nick talked about his life and the hardships he had gone through which motivated him to make [...] Related posts:

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Probate Monday: Passive Income Goals and General Update

Sorry I have been a MIA this past week, I was in Breckenridge, CO for my best friends bachelor party. Shockingly my doctor gave me the go ahead to ski if I felt up to it and you better believe if I’m going to be in Colorado in the winter I’m going to be skiing. [...] Related posts:

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Probate Monday: What I’m using for my postcards

Sorry for posting Probate Monday on Tuesday but I wanted to add a video how too and then realized I didn’t have my recorder setup after reformatting my hard drive this weekend. Now onto the content…. I got a little behind with my February mailings when I was couch ridden and couldn’t get to the post [...] Related posts:

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Creating a Schedule is Not Easy

Over the past two days I’ve been trying to come up with a schedule that is rigid but with a little flexibility thrown in. Let me tell you, it’s not easy. I’m taking this very seriously because I want to be as productive as possible. Some of you may be thinking I’m wasting time thinking [...] Related posts:

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Lessons Learned: Get More Out of your Day With Daily Deadlines

After last weeks lesson about doing The Wrong Kind of Busy I started really analyzing how I spend my weekday nights (my real estate investing time). It was a very good exercise to try and identify what are the money making activities and which are not and cross those off my list. Then I thought [...] Related posts:

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Probate Monday: Finding Comps With MLS Access

I’m feeling pretty good about things these last few days about my probate hunt. I’ve been able to get a handful of calls this past week and one Bruce and I made an offer on for $120k but the owner got another offer for $150k so he is going to take that one obviously. I [...] Related posts:

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Top Blogs: 7 Must Read Rei Information Blogs

To continue my Top Blogs series, today I will be bringing to your attention 7 Real Estate Investing blogs that I call Information Blogs. These blogs are run by outstanding people who invest, but choose to provide high quality investing tips and other information needed by today’s investors. Best of all, these people provide the information [...] Related posts:

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Better Your Productivity: To-Do Lists – Part 1

The last few weeks I’ve really gotten a lot done, so much more then I have in the past. I owe my increased productivity to a little iPhone app I downloaded called ToodleDo. I have always heard that the best way to get things accomplished is to create a To-Do List and I couldn’t agree [...] Related posts:

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Probate Monday: How else to bring in calls

I sent out my mailers last week and have only gotten two calls. One was a guy calling to tell me I sent the letter to a retirement community. He was wondering what I was trying to accomplish. For one it’s not trying to buy into a retirement community full of condos, haha. The guy [...] Related posts:

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Lessons Learned: The Wrong Kind of Busy

In last week’s Lessons Learned I talked about how important it is to stop hiding behind technology and actually use the phone to communicate with people. For some using the phone is natural but for others like myself it is going to be a challenge because we have to overcome habit and fear. This past week [...] Related posts:

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