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...

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...

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...

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...

The work for equity strategy I talk about here is so hot (I’ve done 6 in the past 3 months) that I’m considering putting together a live webclass on the topic that would get into the gruesome details about buyer screening, contracts, Dodd-Frank, property selection, all that stuff. My vision is that it would include...