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Business Management

LinkedIn Finally Gets an App Worth Talking About

December 30, 2009
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LinkedIn, if you’re not familiar with it, is like Facebook for professionals. In other words, minus the games and silliness (which is fine if you like that stuff, but I’m not a fan).
LinkedIn is a great site if you want to make business connections. With over 50 million users as of October of this year, [...]

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Reader Mailbag: Alternate Income Source for Flippers

October 30, 2009
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I have had a number of investors contact me about how they can take advantage of their existing skill sets and assets to add some cash flow to their business while they whether the slow market. Here is a recent question I received which I thought might be helpful to share:
From the Reader Mailbag:
I’m an [...]

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Snow is Flying… I Guess Summer is Over…

October 11, 2009
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Hello friends, clients, and followers. How the heck are you? It’s been a LONG time since my last post, and I’m trying to avoid the overwhelm of all the stuff that’s new that I’d like to tell you about.
Without boring you with TOO many details… I spent the Spring retooling and pretty heads down in [...]

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Positive Outlook for Real Estate Investors

February 26, 2009
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It’s easy to get clobbered by all the doom and gloom in the media, but real estate investors today have a greater opportunity than ever before.
I caught this great article on the National Association of Realtor site this morning, and it caught my eye because they were quoting a really sharp investor.
Real Estate Investing Outlook [...]

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Real Estate Downturn Analyzed – Top Markets and Strategies

October 21, 2008

This was released earlier today, and offers interesting insight into markets through 2010, including the top markets and strategies for capitalizing on the downturn:
Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Commercial Real Estate Market to Hit Bottom in 2009, Finds Emerging Trends in Real Estate(r) 2009 Report From the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers
Industry Participants See No Quick Fix and [...]

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When Bailouts Go Bad…

September 29, 2008

I had a lot lighter fare planned for my post today, but the news has a lot of people worried. We continue to see evidence of a drastic worsening in the markets (real estate, financial, even agricultural (I’m in the country, and it reaches as far as hog and corn prices)).
Everybody was frozen, waiting to [...]

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Survival of the Fittest Real Estate Investors

September 22, 2008

Wow! It really seems like the doom-n-gloomers are having a field day with all the latest news from the financial markets.
I just got back from an annual trip up North with my family. We spent plenty of time by the fireplace, hiking and fishing, and were a LONG ways from the closest connection to the [...]

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Locks Changed Post – Don’t Miss the Forest!

August 14, 2008

I have got a lot of emails today regarding my post on the locks getting changed on a subject-to house. They fall in 3 categories:

People are confirming similar happenings in other areas of the country
People want to know the name of the bank and the details
People are insistent that the banks don’t have the right, [...]

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