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Don’t Be Seduced By Real Estate Investment’s Version of Hide the Pea

by Jeff Brown | September 27, 2011

Back in the 80′s when tax shelter Nirvana became law (15 year depreciation schedules), I had folks linin’ up like my office was 31 Flavors, and double scoop cones were a nickel apiece. It was crazy. All of a sudden, real estate was reaching folks who’d been on the fence their entire adult lives. I’d [...]

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A Real Estate Investor Without An Exit Plan Is Like a Baseball Team With No Closer

by Jeff Brown | March 30, 2010

Ya don’t need to understand much about baseball to know that if you can’t protect a lead in the 9th inning, you’re not gonna win as much as you’d like. The Padres team of recent vintage, especially the ’98 team, understood this principle well. They not only had a great (Hall of Fame?) closer in [...]

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Sunday Real Estate Wrap-Up

by Joshua Dorkin | February 24, 2008

I’m not sure about the rest of you, but this has been a LONG week for me. Personal issues aside, is seems like there is just so much happening in the world: Lunar Eclipse, US shoots down failing satellite, Kosovo declares independence, Castro steps down from leadership of Cuba, Ralph Nader is back, Clinton/Obama battle [...]

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