Debt to me is the ultimate four letter word and I hate it with a passion. I always used to admire the people who could purchase a car or even a house with all cash and then be done with it. Growing up, my parents financed every car, mortgaged their house and never thought twice before plopping down a credit card to pay for something. It was a way of life for me growing up, and I’m sure many of …
Probate Monday: How to Handle Missed Calls
It’s very frustrating for me to be at work and get a phone call from my probate marketing. I can hear the money going down the drain. There are a few ways I can counter act this such as getting an answering service from a company like Patlive. This past mailing seemed worse then others with the day time callings. I counted 3 missed calls, although I will say I enjoyed the fact that I missed the angry fella who …
My Real Estate Quarter Year Progress Report
Probate Goals Back in January I posted about my one and only goal I’m focusing on this year, Getting my first probate deal. If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that I did not succeed in accomplishing that goal which had a target date of March 1st. This goal is still however at the forefront of my efforts and it will happen sooner then later. Over the past couple months I have made some very good progress and have, …
Update on My REI Scheduled Evenings
A few weeks ago I came up with a schedule for myself to follow during the evenings. It was a slotting system of topics such as Probate Investing, Short Sales, Blog work, etc. If you missed the post you can see it here Creating a Schedule is Not Easy. I’ve been working it for the past couple weeks and I’ve had mixed results. It wasn’t for a lack of effort, but more because things took longer then expected or the …
How to Rock Socks and Sell Stuff
In my recent post about the Top 12 Non-Real Estate Blogs, I mentioned a blog by Maren Kate called EscapingThe9to5. I didn’t think it was enough to just mention her blog, I thought it would be great to invite her to our community as a guest poster.. She graciously accepted and after reading what she came up with, I’m sure you will be hooked on her writing as I am. If all goes well, maybe we can have her back …
Lessons Learned: Presentation
Over the past several weeks I’ve been attempting to network with Realtors who have short sale listings so an investor I know can make offers on them. I haven’t had any problems finding such Sales Agents, but I have been running into road blocks each and every time. It’s a numbers game right? From talking with other investors, I know this method of finding leads works. What am I doing wrong here? Everyone always says it’s a numbers game, so …
Top Blogs: 12 Incredible non Real Estate Blogs
If you haven’t noticed I’ve become a big fan of blogging, internet marketing and all things that help lead me to a better and more fulfilling life. Real estate is a big part of that, but in order to succeed I must be in the right frame of mind as well as have the underlining skills to best take advantage. Below are a list of 12 blogs that have nothing to do with real estate investing but are a must …
Probate Monday: Inching Closer and Closer
New Probate Leads In Hand Last week was a pretty good week. I got my new list of probate leads from my source and was even able to talk with the owner on the phone for about 45 minutes. He gave me some great advice for marketing to probate leads and is an overall good guy. Some of his tips he mentioned to me he said he had never told anyone else before. So in honor of that I’ll keep …
Book Review: Get of Your “BUT”! by Sean Stephenson
Have you ever heard of Sean Stephenson before? I wasn’t really sure who he was when I first heard Julie Broad (from RevNyou.com) talk about reading his book and seeing him at a conference involving the Dali lama. I then had one of those “Wait a sec” moments when I remembered seeing a TLC show featuring this short fella who was bound to a wheelchair. He was going out on a date with this very attractive woman and I couldn’t …
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 a change. For me, my life has been easy compared to most and I freely admit that. My parents are great, my brothers and I …
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. This was the first time I’ve been skiing in 10 years and combine that with my total inactivity over the past 7 weeks plus being …
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 office myself to mail out the probate letters. This meant the postcards are going out at the end of the month instead of mid-month …