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27 Easy Ways To Improve Your Real Estate Business

April 4, 2010
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Call some FSBO‘s. Go look at properties for sale. Call your mortgage broker about new financing. Check the renewal dates on your mortgages. Call a friend who could be a JV partner just to catch up. Don’t talk about real estate (yet). Sit down with your Realtor and define exactly what types of properties you want. [...]

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7 Ways to CTL+ALT+DEL Your Real Estate Investing

March 17, 2010
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Your computer, your life and your business all need a restart every so often. Unload everything, wind down, unplug, go have a cup of coffee, and then fire things back up one at a time. I just came back from one of REIN’s ACRE weekends, which is really Real Estate Investing 101 and 102. For [...]

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ACRE Weekend Resources for Newbies

November 7, 2009
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Well, Saturday morning in Calgary will find a bunch of people in a room with Russell Westcott, Don Campbell and a bunch of exceptionally successful real estate investors. I wish I could be there, meeting people, seeing what’s new and being inspired. It’s an ACREs (Authentic Canadian Real Estate Seminar) weekend, put on by REIN. [...]

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Explore Your Business Culture

October 24, 2009

Tom and Nick Karadza run a Toronto area real estate brokerage that does a lot of investment-related work. They’re investors themselves and I know that some REIN members out east know them reasonably well. Some of their stuff is a little too over-the-top, but they sure know their stuff. Nick makes the good point in [...]

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Design Matters To Your Business and Investors

September 29, 2009
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The book I’m reading right now is called Design Matters: How great design will make people love your company. (In North America it’s called Do You Matter? and you can buy it on Amazon here) The areas they’re talking about in this book and many other similar books are called Interface Design and Customer Experience [...]

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How to be Happy in Business

July 24, 2009

Bud Caddell of Undercurrent wrote an amazing blog post the other day that I found via Flowing Data. The Venn Diagram is amazing and he’s right on the money. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_caddell/ / CC BY 2.0 And the meat of what he’s talking about. We can’t determine how to make enough money from the things we want [...]

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Lessons from Ted Rogers for Real Estate Investors

July 22, 2009

Lately I’ve been reading voraciously. I read Freakonomics in 2 days, right now I’m  re-reading the gentrification bible The Death and Life of Great American cities and on the weekend I just finished reading Ted Rogers autobiography. Ted Rogers was a real action taker and I found some principles that we could apply as real [...]

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8 Essential Real Estate Investment Business Processes

February 16, 2009

For me, and for all the REIN members like me, we’re buying or are preparing to buy. I have no doubt in my mind that the properties I buy today will have appreciated significantly in five years’ time. Why five years? Because that’s the minimum hold that my Joint Venture partners and I agree on. [...]

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