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For Real Estate Investing Success, You Should Stop Making “Offers”
Share This: As an entrepreneur in real estate investing, I’m constantly out in the world talking with owners (soon to be sellers!) of properties I want to buy. At some point that conversation has to turn from just talk into something more definitive. How that transition happens, and when that transition happens is for another […]
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‘Touch’: What Soccer Teaches Us About Real Estate Investment & Entrepreneurship
Share This: It’s no secret—I’m a huge soccer fan (yes, I do love something other than real estate investment!). When it comes to the teams I love (the Portland Timbers, the US Men’s and Women’s National Soccer teams, etc.), if there’s a match happening nearby, I’m going to attend. If it’s not happening in my […]
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Understanding Inflation vs Appreciation
Share This: In 2002, my wife and I bought our first home. We paid around $190,000 for it, and by about 2005, it had ‘appreciated’ to closer to $275,000. Why? We had done some cosmetic work to it, and the neighborhood we bought in improved quite a bit; but most importantly, the economy had simply strengthened […]
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Like My Life Depended On It
Share This: Recently I had an important project on my plate. I needed to find some financing for a property, and I had been struggling to find it. More accurately, I had been struggling to figure out how to find it. It had been on my list of projects for several months, and was becoming […]
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What Belief System Do You Need To Install?
Share This: I’ve been thinking a lot over the past several months about my belief system (when you go to events like Power Players you can’t help but start pondering this!). There are a lot of questions that come up when thinking on this topic: What exactly are my conscious beliefs? What are my unconscious […]
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Is SXSW Interactive A Good Event For the Real Estate Entrepreneur?
Share This: Last week I flew out to SXSW Interactive–one part of the enormous three-legged event held annually in March in Austin, Texas. Along with a Music segment and a Film segment, Interactive is the business/innovation/technology portion of SXSW. With 72,000-ish total attendees throughout all three segments of the event, SXSW absolutely takes over Austin. […]
