Competition is what forces innovation in our businesses.

Subjects like accounting, writing, technology/web design, public speaking, and financial literacy will be critical for success. 2.

With today’s technology it takes 15 minutes to write and offer and submit it.

Trust your instincts.These days with the new technologies, the mortgage industry has become rather impersonal, but it is still a people business.

I have sold 2 technology companies in the past.

(Super fun fact: a supreme court justice in one of those cases actually wrote in their opinion that the gov't might someday develop psychic mind reading technology, and built the implications of that into his opinion...)

.…. 30Why You Must Change………………………………………………... 30The Forces of Change…………………………………………………. 30The New Expense Paradigm…………………………………………... 32The New Payroll Paradigm……………………………………………. 33Outsourcing Work……………………………………………………... 34Finding Self-Employed Specialists……………………………………. 35Guidelines for Establishing Independent Contractors Relationships….. 35Fully Exploiting Technology………………………………………….. 35Invest in Great Tools…………………………………………………... 36The Accessibility Rule………………………………………………… 36The Telephone Rule…………………………………………………… 37Advanced Tools……………………………………………………….. 38Real Estate Software Source…………………………………………... 39Rehab Tools…………………………………………………………… 39The Home Office Trend……………………………………………….. 40Where to Meet Clients and Prospects…………………………………. 41Extreme Office Leverage……………………………………………… 41They Are Not Customers……………………………………………… 42More Extreme Rules…………………………………………………... 42Become a Niche Market Specialist……………………………………. 44Build a Business Within a Business…………………………………… 45Co-opetition—The New Buzzword…………………………………… 46Informational Leverage………………………………………………... 48Performance Pay Works………………………………………………. 48Strategic Smallness……………………………………………………. 49Concept Summary…………………………………………………….. 50Section Two--Business Opportunity How to Directory……………. 51How to Use this Section……………………………………………….. 51Chapter 4 Real Estate Investor Services………………………….. 53Apartment Preparation Services………………………………………. 53The A.P.

My background is with high-growth technology companies doing online and direct marketing.

If you take advantage of new technologies: thermal mass electric resistance heating elements or electric air-2-air or ground-2-air heat pumps (especially ductless units with split heads), electricity can actually be cheaper.We have no oil heated properties and whenever we pursue a property heated with oil, we determine the cost of converting it to natural gas or electric and bake it into our analysis.  

TX is booming, oil, technology, healthcare and massive population growth here!