I grew up a poor black child.. just kidding, I actually grew up on a farm and we were poor, so you have to learn how to do things yourself.

As someone already said, make your properties safe before you rent them out.Slumlords give the rest of us a huge black eye.

In high traffic areas (kitchen in particular) the grout is very dirty--black.

If you are going to use bandit signs, I find the best strategy is to use what the other guys is not using.For instance, if you see a lot of yellow and black, go with blue and white or red and white.

Sorry I just had to make a stupid halloween joke. black and orange supermarket party decorations and cake icing, etc...

Either I suck or the old addage always bet on black doesnt always work.

"Gay, straight, black, white!

Customers are often buy into a lifestyle, a feelgood factor, or a 'story'.The most aware businesses fully understand what the customer is buying from them.For example, Tom Peters quotes the Harley Davidson executive who said: "What we sell is the ability for a 43 year old accountant to dress in black leather, ride through small towns and have people be afraid of him."

Theres ways to get asking price to come down a little to meet your offer, but offering 50 cents on the dollar of asking price to REOs will get you on a Black List veryyyy quickly.

So many houses I've seen that look promising from multiple pictures end up being black holes of disrepair.After the walk through, then decide if $5-10k is all that it's gonna take.I'm now skeptical on houses that look like "steals" if no one else has scooped them, what is it about it that is why no one has scooped it?