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Category: Entrepreneurship

  • SFREI #30: Aligning Money with Purpose, With Dill Ward

    SFREI #30: Aligning Money with Purpose, With Dill Ward

    Share This: SFREI #30: Aligning Money with Purpose, With Dill Ward Episode References DillWard.com About Dill Dill Ward is on a mission to raise the vibration on the planet one interaction at a time. Working as a life-catalyzing Realtor for the past decade she combines her unique perspective as a real estate investor, community builder, […]

  • My 11 Personal Affirmations During A Difficult Time

    My 11 Personal Affirmations During A Difficult Time

    Share This: Join our free Facebook group for real estate professionals: Real Estate in the time of Coronavirus–A Peer Support Group WARNING: Vulnerability ahead. On Saturday, March 14, 2020, I woke up and realized that the coronavirus outbreak was a runaway train, that would certainly and inevitably have a major effect on my business and […]

  • Episode #2: The Difference Between Real Estate Investing and Real Estate Entrepreneurship

    Episode #2: The Difference Between Real Estate Investing and Real Estate Entrepreneurship

    Share This: Episode #2: The Difference Between Real Estate Investing and Real Estate Entrepreneurship Episode Summary Listen to the episode on iTunes Listen on Spotify Jeff discusses the important distinction between two terms that may incorrectly seem interchangeable–Real Estate Investing and Real Estate Entrepreneurship–and describes why Real Estate Entrepreneurship is the higher ideal to strive […]

  • Disagree to Agree

    Disagree to Agree

    Share This: Today, as I was listening to the audio version of the book Killing Sacred Cows, by Garrett Gunderson, I was struck by an idea the author mention in the book.  It was such a fresh and different–but obvious–perspective that it kept my philosophical mind occupied for hours, thinking about this basic principle of […]

  • Thoughtful Real Estate Entrepreneur–What It Means to be One

    Thoughtful Real Estate Entrepreneur–What It Means to be One

    Share This: We are Thoughtful Real Estate Entrepreneurs. We write these articles for others who consider themselves to be–or want to become–Thoughtful Real Estate Entrepreneurs themselves.  You, presumably, see yourself as a fellow Thoughtful Real Estate Entrepreneur (TREE). But what, exactly, is a Thoughtful Real Estate Entrepreneur? Let’s take a few moments and examine what it […]

  • Introducing “Living An Entrepreneurial Life,” My New Real Estate Investing Blog on BiggerPockets.Com

    Introducing “Living An Entrepreneurial Life,” My New Real Estate Investing Blog on BiggerPockets.Com

    Share This: I am pleased to announce that I’ve begun sharing my ideas, experiences and reflections on an entrepreneurial life in a new real estate investing blog on BiggerPockets.com, called “Living An Entrepreneurial Life.”   This is–of course–a new real estate investing blog in addition to the writing and sharing I do here at jwarrens.com.  Depending […]

  • How My Car Catching On Fire Helped Me Become Better at Real Estate Negotiation

    Share This: On December 22, 2015, a funny thing happened. (Not “funny ha-ha” so much, but more “funny OMG WTF.”).  Two years later, I realize the impact it had on my real estate negotiation skills. My car caught on fire. It was a cold winter morning, so I went out to the curb where it […]

  • ‘Touch’:  What Soccer Teaches Us About Real Estate Investment & Entrepreneurship

    ‘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 […]

  • Understanding Inflation vs Appreciation

    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 […]

  • Like My Life Depended On It

    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 […]