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Could you get away with not paying flood insurance if the livable space was elevated 5 or 12' off the ground?

take all that saved money and buy lottery tickets?

So again, I agree - there's a lot to look at to get a well-rounded view of an agent's performance (and I haven't touched on everything by any means!).

Look for a model where the marketer makes the bulk of their money by performing....as our forces us to do.Whatever you hear.....please discount advice to go into places like Detroit or Flint...yes, you can buy houses cheap but you can also do the same with lottery tickets....most are losers and every once in a while, someone wins!

After about five rounds of this, the judge makes his ruling. 90 days confinement, bailiff take charge of the prisoner!

Others I think have just managed to bully a few rookies, and still try to get away with it.

There aren't many people alive who remember what happened in the Depression but one of the things that made it so depressing is that the economy was caught in a cycle of deflation where prospects were uncertain so people stopped spending which reduced sales which caused people to be laid off which lead to more uncertainty and less spending; rinse and repeat with prices falling each round.

Also, I don't think you'll get away with meal deductions unless you're actually out of town on an overnight trip specifically for rental business.

I recently started my first direct mail campaign and am currently in my second round of mailings to the same list of 1000.