You and I both know that you aren’t gonna be reading and digesting a long business article at this time of year, so we’ll keep it light this week. Don’t ask me why, but I have, over the years, accumulated an enormous amount of real estate poetry. The muse usually strikes me around Christmas time,...

Planning for a Successful 2017   We’re heading into the holidays, and then into that week between Christmas and New Year’s Day when most of us make New Year’s Resolutions. You know, like: “This year, I’m going to lose 20 pounds” “This year, I’m going to finally finish rehabbing my bathroom” “This year, I’m going...

When I was 2 or 3 years old, my mother took me on almost weekly trips to the library. While she checked out the latest mystery novels, I always went to the same shelf in the children’s section and pulled down the same worn, tea-colored book called “I Can’t, Said the Ant”. I must have...

It’s becoming hard to ignore my own brilliance. Yep, apparently I’m some kind of super-genius, blessed with a rare real estate gene that you just weren’t born with. It would be a lot easier to be humble if I weren’t constantly being told things like: “Well, when I hear YOU say it, it sounds obvious...

The simple answer is, we get 2 to 3 times the average single family rental rate coming in secured each and every month by multiple tenants and their parents! We like to think it chose us, but basically when we got serious about real estate, we ended-up finding dumpy houses by our hometown University. The...