getting started

How Do You Find a Real Estate Investing Mentor?

by Michael Zuber | September 8, 2011

First and foremost I am not talking about a “Mentor” that costs you significant money and requires you sign up for multiple mentoring sessions, buy multiple boot camps, etc. Thankfully I can’t speak for any of these programs as I am too cheap to sign up for any of them. Instead I chose the low [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Are You A Little Too Comfortable?

by Danny Johnson | May 12, 2011

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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Starting Out

Why “Little Cash and No Credit” Should Be A Motivator

by Shae Bynes | June 17, 2010

Over the last month I’ve received a number of emails from new investors saying something like this: “People have been saying that you can get started in real estate with no cash and bad credit, but I just haven’t been able to make any progress and I’m wondering what I’m missing and if this is [...]

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Loose Lips Sink Ships (or The Strategy of Silence in REI)

by Connie Brzowski | December 8, 2007

Recently, during a relatively calm and drama-free conversation, daughter #3 (the cheeky one running around the kitchen at this very moment with a doily on her head) asked, “Mom? Now that you’ve plastered your name all over the internet, I guess its okay to tell people we’re landlords, right? Ignoring for a moment the habit [...]

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