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What You Hopefully Opened on Christmas

by Jason Hanson | December 25, 2011
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Merry Christmas. By the time you’re reading this you may have already opened your presents. Hopefully, in addition to all of the stuff you don’t need (like iPods and TV’s) you got some Christmas presents that can increase your income in 2012. I sure did. I got several books and a marketing course which I [...]

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Real Estate Investing Education in the Information Age

by Marty Boardman | September 22, 2011
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I’m a sports junkie.  I mean the real sports – football, baseball and basketball. Soccer is not a sport because as the late George Carlin explained, you can’t use your hands.  Ditto for hockey.  Running isn’t a sport either.  If I can ‘run’ to the store for a loaf of bread it’s not a sport.  [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Are You A Little Too Comfortable?

by Danny Johnson | May 12, 2011
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Most people only do what is comfortable for them and rarely try something new. Things like interviewing for a job, giving a speech, riding a bike, etc. are not easy when we first try them. These are things that take us out of our happy little comfort zone. It’s not a place most of us [...]

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Learn Real Estate

Save Your Sanity, Learn Your Building

by Brendan O'Brien | August 29, 2009

A while back, I mentioned my project installing a bathroom ceiling fan as an example of something automated systems wouldn’t help with – a dirty, uncomfortable job I had to do myself.

That doesn’t mean the job had to be nearly as difficult as it was.  I could have saved a huge amount of time if I had taken some steps to learn the building beforehand.

A Hugely Annoying Day

Like most bathroom ceiling fans, the Broan 678 actually attaches to ceiling joists.  This means that to install it, you really want to work from above.  It’s pretty darned difficult in a building like mine because there is no easy access to the attic.  I knew of three possibilities:

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Real Estate

Don’t get me wrong! You need to Invest in Real Estate Education!

by Rosie Nieto | December 25, 2008

I have spent the last week studying from a new teacher (for me).  This time it’s for marketing, and several things have  occurred to me;  1) Yes, I have indeed spent more money on my education this month and 2) it also occurred to me that with all my soap-box rants against “guru pitch fests”, I may be sending [...]

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