Comments on: The Most Important Question (that Most of Us Answer Poorly) http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/01/14/important-question-answer-poorly/ Learn, Network, Invest Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Don McAlpinehttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/01/14/important-question-answer-poorly/#comment-77380 Don McAlpine Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:12:05 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=10222#comment-77380 Great post. Really made me take a step back and think through what it is I actually do DO. I won't reply so casually going forward. Thanks. Great post. Really made me take a step back and think through what it is I actually do DO. I won’t reply so casually going forward. Thanks.

]]> By: Tom Brintzenhofehttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/01/14/important-question-answer-poorly/#comment-77355 Tom Brintzenhofe Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:22:06 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=10222#comment-77355 Great advice, thanks for the insight. Great advice, thanks for the insight.

]]> By: Neil Uttamsinghhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/01/14/important-question-answer-poorly/#comment-77266 Neil Uttamsingh Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:09:39 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=10222#comment-77266 Hi Christian,A really good article.Here is my elevator speech!Person: "What do you do?"Me: "I am a professional real estate investor. I purchase positive cash flow townhouses in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with Joint Venture Partners. The Partner provides the money, and I do all of the work, such as finding the property, negotiating the price, closing on the property, finding tenants, managing the property, and the tenant relationship. I also take care of the sale of the property at the end of the holding period. The partner and I split the monthly cash flow on the property 50/50. Upon the sale of the property, the Joint Venture Partner first gets back all of their money invested in the deal. We then split the profits 50/50."Regards, Neil. :) .-= Neil Uttamsingh´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FirstRentalProperty/~3/y2QclMW2XBg/" rel="nofollow">What is Real Estate Diversification?</a> =-. Hi Christian,

A really good article.

Here is my elevator speech!

Person: “What do you do?”

Me: “I am a professional real estate investor. I purchase positive cash flow townhouses in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with Joint Venture Partners. The Partner provides the money, and I do all of the work, such as finding the property, negotiating the price, closing on the property, finding tenants, managing the property, and the tenant relationship. I also take care of the sale of the property at the end of the holding period. The partner and I split the monthly cash flow on the property 50/50. Upon the sale of the property, the Joint Venture Partner first gets back all of their money invested in the deal. We then split the profits 50/50.”

Regards,
Neil. :)
.-= Neil Uttamsingh´s last blog ..What is Real Estate Diversification? =-.

]]> By: Christian Russellhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/01/14/important-question-answer-poorly/#comment-77247 Christian Russell Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:52:06 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=10222#comment-77247 I dig it Nick. If someone asks "what do you do?" and you respond "I'm a creative real estate solutions engineer." they have to ask what the heck that means. That's a good thing. The power question is this: does "creative real estate" truly encompass what you do? Do you own the word "creative" in your real estate business? Does it speak to the core of your operation, or is it just a catch phrase?For example, Volvo owns the word "safety". Everything they've focused on for decades revolves around it. When you hear "safest car", you think Volvo. It's automatic. That's how targeted and concise you want your tagline to be :) I dig it Nick. If someone asks “what do you do?” and you respond “I’m a creative real estate solutions engineer.” they have to ask what the heck that means. That’s a good thing. The power question is this: does “creative real estate” truly encompass what you do? Do you own the word “creative” in your real estate business? Does it speak to the core of your operation, or is it just a catch phrase?

For example, Volvo owns the word “safety”. Everything they’ve focused on for decades revolves around it. When you hear “safest car”, you think Volvo. It’s automatic. That’s how targeted and concise you want your tagline to be :)

]]> By: Nick@Subject2.comhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/01/14/important-question-answer-poorly/#comment-77240 Nick@Subject2.com Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:31:03 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=10222#comment-77240 This is a topic I've been struggling with lately. I agree with you, I'm not like everyone else so I most definitely need a great tag line.Thankfully, our own master Josh helped me out recently and I came up with 'Creative Real Estate Solutions Engineer'whatcha think about that? This is a topic I’ve been struggling with lately. I agree with you, I’m not like everyone else so I most definitely need a great tag line.

Thankfully, our own master Josh helped me out recently and I came up with ‘Creative Real Estate Solutions Engineer’

whatcha think about that?

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