productivity

How to Run Your Real Estate Investing Business on Your Own Terms

by Jason Hanson | March 27, 2011

Last week I was in Las Vegas and this week I’m writing from Alberta, Canada. I like to travel, and luckily, my real estate business provides me the opportunity to do so. However, I’m often asked by new investors how I can travel so often, while still running my real estate business. Well… my first [...]

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Real Estate Tips

How to Turn Your Time into Money

by Shae Bynes | June 10, 2010

After my first week of full time entrepreneurship, one thing was certain. I need help. When I created a list of tasks that needed to be done to accomplish the week’s goals, it was apparent that there were several items that were important, but were time consuming. Sure, there were some things that I knocked [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Improve Your Productivity: 4 Great Ways to Clone Yourself While Real Estate Investing

by John Fedro | February 8, 2010

Congratulations! You are pursuing a career in the lucrative world of real estate investing. The sky’s the limit. Isn’t it? We are all bound by the same 24 hours in each day. Our current unique lifestyle is a result how each one of us has used this precious time. Here are a few tactics, out [...]

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Commentary

New Year’s Resolutions and the Three R’s

by Tom Koziol | January 1, 2010

Before I launch into my post, I want to say happy new year to everyone. May your real estate investments be the ones that see unprecedented growth in 2010 and your rentals stay occupied. Once upon a time I was a motivational speaker. That is, folks would hire me to give their employees or convention [...]

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Cool Stuff

Four Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity in 2010

by Stephani Davis | December 31, 2009

As 2009 draws to an end, many of us are busy writing goals for the coming the year, reflecting on our accomplishments of the current year, and coming up with an action plan for how we can be more productive in 2010. Following is a list of four seemingly simple, yet highly effective ideas that [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

2 Simple Tools To Help You Plan Your Real Estate Marketing

by Jason Hanson | March 26, 2009

I once dated a girl who told me I was too practical and that I planned everything out too much. This girl lived in Florida, and I told her that my planning was the reason for my success and one of the reasons that I was able to spend one week a month down in [...]

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Real Estate Deals

What Will Make Me The Most Money?

by Jason Hanson | January 22, 2009

I live about 15 miles outside of Washington, DC which means I was trapped in my house all day Tuesday. There was no way I was leaving my house because of the inauguration traffic and all of the road closures. Anyway, most people know that I read one book per week and I just finished [...]

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Real Estate

Smart Goals and Good Habits Make For a Successful 2009

by Brendan O'Brien | January 3, 2009

I’m writing this in bed, at 6:30 a.m. on January 1st – which makes this blog post my first official act of 2009. Seems like a pretty good time to think about goals and habits for 2009. Of course it’s important to set ambitious, yet reachable goals. But we’re never going to reach them if [...]

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Real Estate Tips

6 Easy Ways to Boost Your Productivity in Real Estate

by Joshua Dorkin | December 26, 2008

As the New Year quickly approaches, I thought I’d put together a post that helps us all be a little more productive and successful. It is human nature to be distracted, to procrastinate, to be fearful, to stress out — I can go on and on, but we can work around these things to help [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How To Overcome Your Fear of The Telephone!

by Jason Hanson | November 19, 2008

I try and read a book a week. It doesn’t always happen, but I have a long list of books I want to get through. Most of the books I read fall into three categories: Real estate investing, self-help and marketing. The book that I’m reading this week is “Awaken the Giant Within” by Tony [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Does the 4-Hour Workweek Really Exist?

by Jason Hanson | October 8, 2008

Last week I was in North Carolina. I love the outdoors and did some awesome hiking in the Linville Falls Gorge. A buddy and I went in a huge swimming hole that had a nice 20 foot cliff you could jump off of (search the Babel Tower swimming hole). I also went swimming in Lake [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Managing Tenants Part Four: The Home Office (a thing of beauty and a joy forevermore)

by Connie Brzowski | February 16, 2008

For the novice real estate investor, it’s mighty tempting to handle business deals and tenant phone calls from home, but having a home office or dedicated office area provides a degree of separation essential for running a successful real estate enterprise. No matter how hard you try, it’s impossible to sound professional with a screaming [...]

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Real Estate Tips

The Importance of Keeping a Routine

by Joshua Dorkin | August 11, 2006

Most people live their life in a box. Wake up, get ready for work, work for 8 hours or so, come home, spend time with family and so on. They are either content with their jobs or not, but they work a typical job, and can count on a typical schedule. While oftentimes boring, such [...]

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