All Forum Posts by: Alicia Ortiz

American Express is has to get rid of alot of their credit accounts to conform to the bank rules. In the first bailout by the Busch administration AmX was granted permission to be a bank so they can get their share of the bailout money. You can't be a bank if you only have credit cards. They are trying to become a bank. Wouldn't surprise me if they merged again with Ameriprise, there sister company that they split from several years ago.

He teaches all forms of real estate investing. He has helped his students do developments. He has bootcamps on foreclosures, commercial, you name it. His son Ryan also does teaching and has a bootcamp on mobile home parks that is held in a mobile home park so you get hands on training. He truely wants to help people be successful in real estate investing.

I have used both Calyx and Ecompass. I like Encompass much better.

I have not attended the M5 yet as I am a slow learner. I have attended several of the 3 day seminars and they are well worth the price.

I am a student of James Smith. I started with him 4 years ago. I love the program and have learned alot. If you need any additional information let me know.

I would bet Jesse Sr. made the offers. Blagojevich's wife was to get a high paying union job with SEIU Union and Jesse Sr. is closely affifiated with them. Plus he could easily raise the campagn funds promised.

I currently have a property manager that is great and I will continue to use him. I have managed my own properties (15 SFR) and although I do enjoy it, it is very time consuming. Having my time leveraged for other projects is important to me.

I have also had a bad property manager that kept all deposits, would not answer tenant concerns and would not do maintenance with out tacking on an extra 10% to each bill for himself. I have learned that your property manager should be screened in more depth than your tenants.