Have You Become a Motivated Buyer? By Vena Jones-Cox

   As the real estate market has warmed up, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among real estate investors and wholesalers: they’re making the crucial error of becoming motivated BUYERS.   You may be a motivated buyer if you:  Find yourself trying to figure out how you can pay a seller what he wants, instead of making...

5 More Things You’ll Regret Not Doing 10 years from Now by Vena Jones-Cox

Last week, I shared a list of things that every real estate investor needs to pay attention to starting NOW so that the rewards you'll reap 10 years from now will be there when you want them. These sorts of to-dos all fall into the category that Stephan Covey calls "Important but Not Urgent": things...

5 Things You Really Shouldn’t Put Off…by Vena Jones-Cox

Hindsight is, as they say, 20/20. IF ONLY I could go back to 2006, cash in all my properties, and use the money to short Fannie Mae stock. Sigh. But daydreaming that you could have had foreknowledge of something as earth-shattering as the real estate crash is one thing; continuing to act in ways that...

Do You Really Need a Mentor? By Vena Jones-Cox

If you’ve been involved in any of the major national real estate education mills, even at the lowest “free workshop” level, you’ve been exposed to the idea that every real estate investor needs a mentor, or they’re doomed to complete failure and will probably live out the balance of their short, unhappy lives living in...

Are You Focusing Too Much on “Active” Strategies? by guest blogger Robyn Thompson

Listen up, Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana peeps…Robyn Thompson is in town in a couple of weeks and you do NOT want to miss her all-day workshop. If you have to drive all night to get here, do it; you’ll learn more in a day with her than you do in 5 with a lot of other ‘gurus’. She’ll...