The Mother of all Disasters is Upon Us!
Saturday, March 21
Today is March 21, 2020, and the pandemic has rewritten the rules of everyday life for virtually every person on planet earth. Like a cosmic light switch being flipped to the “off” position, both individuals and businesses have seen their normal flow of income suddenly stop. Nobody, including t...
No Time, No Money, No Real Estate?
Sunday, May 14
What are two of the biggest impediments keeping people from investing in real estate?Take every excuse and they can all be boiled down to the two seemingly universal hurdles of no time or no money.There is a BIG reason I decided to bridge this gap and connect these two groups of frustrated real e...
Expectation - Reality = Disappointment!
Saturday, April 29
Expectation minus reality equals disappointment.This mathematical phrase best describes what happens when people try something new and expect one thing but the actual results are less than impressive.When someone decides to get started in real estate for the first time, they may have misconceptio...
Your Family Tree and the Clarity of Hindsight
Saturday, April 15
Have you ever stopped to think about how seemingly small decisions in your past have literally changed the trajectory of your entire life?Let me give you one small example.My father was born and raised in Gary, Indiana.My mother was born in NY but her family moved to Gary, Indiana where she met m...
Let's Talk About Income
Saturday, March 11
The median household income in America is $56,500 which means half of all households make more and the other half makes less than this amount of income each year.Everyone must start somewhere on the income ladder and then it is the responsibility of each person to climb the rungs of the ladder as...
Good Things Come To Those That Buy Real Estate and Wait!
Saturday, March 04
One of our single-family houses was refinanced this week.Since we generally borrow money from small community banks with twenty-year amortizations and five-year fixed rate loans, we must be ready to refinance a batch of houses every five years.I realize a lot of people are not comfortable borrowi...