In order to save a few pennies to pay for my property taxes, I will be eating ramen noodles for dinner tonight.

In real estate, accepting dinners or goods in exchange for our services is considered illegal.

I tell the agent "from now on the price is NOT $60 as I will now have the hassle of getting ELECTRIC turned on ($115 IIRC), Insurance (always a hassle in TX), the HUGE expense of running an ad in the twice weekly paper ($11.50) and possibly an extra 300 mile round trip.After closing on Thursay the agent and I retire to a nice restaurant for dinner and a drink or 6 and she proceeds to tell me that with just a bit of elbow grease there's at least another $4-5K in the place.

The other night I had dinner with one of my biggest customers (W2 job) and it came up that him and his brother own 45 units.

•Harvey Levin (Harvey property management group) who spent 4 hours with me over dinner and many phone calls there after telling me that "being positive is a good thing but knock it off and look at the actual facts!"

@Christopher Abernathy  property radar app.. got me a deal in lake Oswego OR.. that is a killer.I can now pay for 50 years or more of subscriptions based on that one deal .. and still have money to go to dinner.. that is the coolest app ever and for all sorts of reasons.. 

You knew your banker's wife and children because you treated them all to dinner after your last deal closed, and maybe you even go to the bank's holiday party to keep up appearances/ LOL.

It's tough to get good deals at the suites like Embassy, Homewood, etc (you can't beat free breakfast, free dinner and drinks 4 days a week, and a full fridge and hot plate in the room) but all other properties seem pretty empty to me.

From calculations of actually just taking a loan out on the 100k purchase price and paying the building Loan, we actually come out ahead with purchasing.We spoke over dinner and she is completely set on buying this property.

But them dinner for a letter.