I need some tips on strategy and persuasion.

I haven't figured out what i plan to read in 2014 yet, but these are the books i read and enjoyed in 2013. 1) Street Smarts - Jim Rogers 2) The One Thing - Gary Keller 3) Influence - the Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B Ciadini 4) FLIP - Rick Villani and Clay Davis 5) Mastering the Art of Selling Real estate - Tom Hopkins 6) The Art of Selling Real Estate - Patricia Cliff 7) Advanced Selling Strategies - Brian Tracy 8) Power of Self - Confidence - Brian Tracy 9) How to become a Power Agent in Real Estate - Darryl Davis 10) The Champion Real Estate Agent - Dirk Zeller 11) Real Estate Prospecting - Loren K.

I had a friend who was able to convince the company owner with no 401k to start a SEP but he is a very persuasive guy.

Basics - learn to speak clearly and professionally, its harder than you think ; learn WTF construction actually costs before you make an @$$ out of yourself ; get a clue as to what homes need to be good assets ; learn WTF an asset actually is ; read up on phone skills, negotiation, persuasion, learn your markets ; ask your investors what THEY need to earn on a deal and work backwards. 

No matter your political persuasion, we can all see the swings in America’s stock market every time new news is released on its happenings and the billions in subsidies doled out by the United States just to keep the agriculture industry above water.

NJ statutes are silent as to this issue, but some states, like CA and PA have specific language that supports this position, so that should be persuasive to any NJ court, as well.

I agree, it will come with knowledge and skills, not just RE skills, social skills, the skill of persuasion, analytical skills and intuition, that's really tough to teach.That's what a teacher is suppose to do, make the student think, if you can then great, making them think in the right direction is a real trick, especially in RE.I'm not going to hammer away at guru stuff in this thread, if people are interested in my opinions they aren't hard to find.

Now I would still have to work and it would set us back in how soon both of us could 'retire' but thats a sacrifice I would be willing to make for her and being able to show her how much farther ahead we would be than if we did nothing.Every person will be different (obviously) as to what will trigger this type of critical thinking and self persuasion.

At this point, they might need persuasion as well. 

Morris should have shut this down withing the first few months when he was getting this feedback on Oceanpointe but instead he charged right on through made himself a few million bucks or so.. and then ducked  :)keep your options open.. its still amazing to me though where people get on these threads and are seriously considering still using Morris to facilitate buying an investment property.. strange and really a testament to how persuasive his pod casts or u tubes are..