I recently read this in How to Win Friends and Influence People, and it re-emphasized to me the incredible importance of the dialogue with our potential clients: "Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid.

One thing for sure, most self-proclaimed gurus or REI 'influencers' do not mention the things you clarified above.

I also need to order business cards and make a plan to contact the people in my circle of influence.

In this case it should be illegal as the lender is unduly influencing the sale.

It will be great if the TPers can influence policy and reduce the size of government.

Cost benefit analysis to me looks something like this:Don't pay rewards and costs: Reward: Reinvest the $3,600 into your firms best available project ROICost: Bad blood with the agent and bad reputation with anyone who he has influence with???

The big unknown is how inevitably rising interest rates and inflation will influence the markets.

Originally posted by Ryan David:Matt - I believe you're absolutely right - I think the biggest problem that we have in this country is the rate of inflation is disproportionate to the rate of income for the average american middle class family - you already have middle class families putting groceries on credit cards - check back in 10-15 years on that - Ron Paul was the only candidate who commented on the national debt and he was portrayed as a kook - and to think that the average person probably doesn't even know that the Federal Reserve is a non-government institution and that when the government needs new money we have to pay it back at interest That's because the people who financed it own everything that could influence the way we think and behave.

It is not a 'market sale' involving ready, willing, and able buyers and sellers involved in a transaction at a mutually agreeable price without undue influence or duress.

-Be 'the real estate' guy in your circle of influence.