They were telling me how a simple question of "please tell us your name for the record" to the witness on the witness stand wouldn't get answered becuase they feared the defendant might know somebody, another gang member or what have you, that might hurt a member of their family or figure out where they lived and rob them if they said their name.One of these individuals got this explanation from a fellow juror in deliberation because one of the jurors lived down there, and my friend was a white dude from suburbia who had no idea what it was like to live there.Just be careful guys.  

Self development comes from life experience or deliberate study.

Often properties are deliberately listed low to get attention and then let multiple buyers bid it up. 

The sharks will deliberately sell a bad property to out-of-state investors, even to the level of committing fraud and worse.

For you or anyone who is interested, here's that attempt at applying it to newbie real estate investors...Try mapping out on paper your financial timeline to Deal #1, and using that to build a deliberate action plan that shows you're taking real steps every week in the right direction. 

I've spend almost 12 years in finance, more than 9 in commercial lending at the big boys: US Bank and JPMorgan Chase.  

The only exception would be fraud or a some form of deliberate cover-up.I couple that with stealing from the best. 

And usually there is a deliberate strategy to take advantage of what the IRS describes as "the incremental increase in value".  

We have made deliberate choices, knowing that it would be tough financially.

Sometimes "discount" overpricing is deliberate and sometimes an oversight.