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Time Blocking and Prioritizing

[ 10 ] August 31, 2010

Today’s post isn’t about real estate investing….or coffee!
There’s a lot going on with both businesses, but today I want to talk about making room for things that are important.
I’m big (HUGE actually) on time management.  Trying to figure out how to fit in all the things that are important to me other than building our [...]

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Refusing to be a Motivated Buyer

[ 17 ] August 26, 2010

We have a lead right now that I was soooo sure we’d be able to close.  Maybe we still can, but its not a homerun yet.
It’s an inherited house and is owned by a husband, wife, and daughter and the father has spent $12K to update the house.  It still doesn’t have carpet in the [...]

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The Secret of Mitch Stephen’s Success with Private Money Lenders

[ 6 ] August 23, 2010

Happy Monday everyone!  We’re busy over here working on a few leads and negotiating with sellers to come up with some mutually beneficial solutions! More on that later on this week!
For today I really wanted to share a guest post with you from Mitch Stephen, author of My Life & 1000 Houses and a very [...]

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Offers and Coffee Contests!

[ 8 ] August 19, 2010

How has everyone’s week been?  I can’t believe tomorrow is Friday already.  Time is flying but its been an eventful week.
As I mentioned earlier this week, we’ve had plenty of activity going on with seller leads.  We’re awaiting word from the seller on the offer we made on Monday. He wants to have his attorney [...]

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Now we’re cookin’

[ 10 ] August 15, 2010

Hope everyone has enjoyed the weekend!  This weekend was “Tax Free Weekend” in the retail stores which means that it was a horrendous weekend for me to choose to go last minute back to school shopping for my daughter (she’s going into 4th grade…can’t believe it).  Sure we saved a few bucks, but I would’ve [...]

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Book Review: My Life & 1000 Houses by Mitch Stephen

[ 15 ] August 10, 2010

Last week I finished reading my 24th book of the year….phew! My goal of reading 2-3 books each month is going really well.  I keep a running list of the books I want to read and interestingly enough, today’s review is for a book that was not on the list, written by a first time [...]

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10 Quick Ways to Find Motivated Sellers

[ 20 ] August 9, 2010

Happy Monday folks!  Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.  This week we’ll be doing a bit of follow up with leads from our calls last week, so I’m looking to have some great updates soon.  In the meantime, one of my new blog readers Britanny (Hi Britanny!) asked a great question which prompted this quick post.  [...]

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Ever have a feeling….

[ 21 ] August 3, 2010

…that something really great is about to happen?  Tonight is one of those nights.  I’m feeling like there’s some kind of breakthrough coming. Something awesome.  I can’t put my finger on it though but it feels good.
Our phone is finally ringing from the postcard campaign.  We’ve spoken to 3 sellers so far and one of [...]

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