Foreclosures
by Jim Watkins
| June 28, 2008
In 2005, I bought a house at the Dallas County auction for a California investor friend who asked me to bid in his place. With the help of a Mentoring student, Gloria Stephens, I was given valuable information about the current owner. What type of person she was and whether or not she would willingly [...]
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Real Estate Investing
by Jim Watkins
| June 12, 2008
In August of 2003, I was painting the exterior of a house in north Minneapolis. That area in general is considered to be the most dangerous part of Minnesota and it usually leads the way in crime statistics. It was a two-story, stucco house on Oliver Ave N. I remember that it was a nice [...]
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A Bad Bank: I Laughed All The Way Home
by Jim Watkins | September 27, 2008This article is a stretch when it comes to being about real estate but, what happened to me yesterday at the bank was so dumb that it all makes sense.
I had hired three day laborers to help me with a small house project I have been working on and as I was driving them back [...]