Without a defined goal and organized plans, one's action steps will lead them nowhere and will only create frustration and impotency.

A carefully-thought-out financial plan for any considered propertyI've seen too many new business owners fail and lose everything because they really weren't financially prepared and organized when they opened the doors.Trying to jump into this without sufficient funds and without a good plan means you're dealing from a position of weakness.

Do any of you use a database program or XL spreadsheet type of thing to keep all your data straight? For example, if I have a strategy of sending several letters out for leads re: buying notes, I'm wondering if I sho...

BP lets me hear what is working for others in specific markets.I also like the organization of the site and the way the software works.John Corey

Just to mention a few it has helped me enormously with-Getting out of my comfort zone-money management-organization-motivation....

In the meantime, I will organize all of my records to indicate that all issues were handled in a very short period time to show that if what she said about the Mar/April notice were true, that it would have been taken care of back then, and not waited until now.

Also, it was pretty motivational -nothing wrong with that for new investors (as long as there's some substance).

Our non profit organization provides preforeclosure sale, and preforeclosure short sale training & support to real estate agencies' brokers and brokers' agents.

As a volunteer for many different non-profit organizations it is important for me to give back.

The law has a doctrine called “substance over form.”