Money is tight, and you’ve got to rent out your vacant suite. You need the rent money to make the mortgage payment. What do you do? You could rent it out to the only person who is willing to move in right away… and allow yourself to justify why that person won’t let you speak to their current landlord or why the collection agency is after them.
I’m an older sister with two little brothers. Like any big sister, I worried about them when they were little and I worry about them now. Lately I’ve been worried most about my oldest brother and his future.
You might think that the best way to sell your house in a slumping market is to price it low and then just get it listed on every website you can. But you may find, like many of my neighbors have, that doing that is not enough.
Even though I should know better, I got behind in my record keeping last year and had to struggle through everything during tax time. I just couldn’t find the time to keep the property management books up to date. Between starting up our online real estate investing education business, a property renovation, getting married and our extracurricular activities (we love adventure racing), I didn’t have much time left for bookkeeping.
When people ask me how to find money for their real estate deals, they often aren’t happy with my answer. Looking for easy solutions that don’t require any work or sacrifice on their part, many people turn away disappointed from my advice.
I am the big sister to two kid brothers. Like any older sister, I worry about my brothers, even now. Most of all, I worry about their futures. The one closest to my age is the one I worry about the most lately.
Let me be brutally honest with you, if you’re living above your means or even just right at your means, then you have zero chance of ever becoming rich. Investing in real estate, or anything else for that matter, won’t save you from a lifetime of debt if you don’t already know how to handle money.
They use viral marketing by e-mail as a marketing tool… what did you think I meant? Viral marketing can work well for B2B providers, as long as the following is true:
Sometimes a search through your bookshelf is like a treasure hunt. As I plucked Stephen Covey’s 1989 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People from my shelf, I believe I found some long lost gold. Flipping through the yellowed pages, I soaked in some of the long forgotten golden nuggets the book contains, and I pondered what the seven habits of a highly effective real estate investor would be.
So there I was one night, flipping channels, and I saw one of those infomercials that comes on late night TV. You know the kind; promising to make you millions in the real estate market. I was already an amateur real estate investor and I figured this way I could learn enough tricks to shed my amateur status and be on the road to financial freedom. Since I still had a full-time job back then, I used my lunch hour to go to the hotel where they were teaching the course.
