Monthly Archives: December 1999

It’s All About Time

CLIENT: This is a person who just recently purchased the Mastering the Art of Finding Great Deals (about 3 weeks ago) and told me there just weren’t any good deals out there to purchase. He was ready to give up. He read through the material fast and then thought he would make his fortune over-night.

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The Home Inspector: Friend or Foe?

If I ever go postal, it is home inspectors I will be shooting. I don’t mean the building inspectors that the county hires to inspect construction, they are a necessary evil. I mean the latest trend in home buyer protection – the guys who go out and tell you all that is wrong about the [...]


Prohibitions of the Mortgage Foreclosure Consultants Law

Last month, we considered the plight of Mr. Rice, a real estate broker who unwittingly qualified as a “foreclosure consultant” under California’s Mortgage Foreclosure Consultants Law (California Civil Code section 2945, et seq.). Mr. Rice’s inadvertent qualification as a foreclosure consultant was largely a result of the extraordinary breadth of the statute.
The penalties for failing [...]


“Auction” Means “Bargain” Right? Wrong!

I just wasted over two weeks of my time preparing for a real estate auction, where I did not buy a single property. Looking back, would I do it again? Unbelievable as it may sound – the answer is YES.
I originally heard of this auction through a local real estate agent. I was calling on [...]