This column is part 3 of a 4 part series.
Editors Note: For the last few years, the real estate market has generally been a “seller’s market” (hard to buy, but easy to sell). That is why the majority of my recent columns have covered how to make your money when you buy for wholesale (even [...]
Yearly Archives: 2004
How to Market Your House Part 3 of 4: Quickly Sell Your House for Top Dollar
December 1, 2004 – 4:21 pm
Tax Tips & Resource Center
December 1, 2004 – 8:08 am
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Tax Calculators
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Tax Law Changes
Includes information on the new tax law changes and how they [...]
Let It Be You
December 1, 2004 – 8:07 am
Each and every day, there are people all around the country and world who are living their dreams. Millionaires are made every day. Families are experiencing tremendous relationships. People are becoming more and more healthy. Life-long learners are growing intellectually and improving their chances for success.
The fact is that living the life of your dreams [...]
Love the Opportunity
December 1, 2004 – 8:06 am
Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that’s not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone’s door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love [...]
Foreclosures and Market Cycles
December 1, 2004 – 8:05 am
As we predicted last month, interest rates have begun moving up, and the stampede to avoid higher rates continues. Prices have risen well into the fourth quarter, but sales volume overall is declining intra-year. Foreclosure activity remains at or near baselines in most markets, but will increase as home prices cycle over the top. The slowdown [...]
Last Minute Tax Tips
December 1, 2004 – 8:03 am
Well, its year-end “tax planning” time. Ugh, what a boring topic, right? But think about this . . . every dollar you save in taxes is a dollar in your pocket. It is making MORE money just like doing more business. The bottom line IS the bottom line – don’t forget that! The following are [...]
Should I Compare Escrow Fees On-Line?
November 1, 2004 – 8:15 am
When you begin shopping for the best home price, mortgage rate, insurance premium, and lender closing costs, should you also shop for the best escrow fees? Many buyers believe law sets escrow fees and so they do not include escrow fees in their search for the most competitive closing costs.
Escrow fees are not generally regulated [...]
Thinking Success
November 1, 2004 – 8:14 am
Success in anything you want to accomplish in life begins with your thinking. The problem with too many people is that they don’t think about what they’re thinking. I once heard a speaker say, “You will become that which you think about most of the time.” Those words have had a tremendous impact on me [...]
The Time to Act
November 1, 2004 – 8:14 am
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be hasty if it isn’t required, but you don’t want to lose much time either. Here’s the time to act: when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong.
Let’s say you would like to build your library. [...]
The Fog of the Housing Markets
November 1, 2004 – 8:13 am
By the time you read this, the election will be in progress. We say “in progress” because we very much doubt that, when we awaken on November 3rd, we will know who is to be inaugurated as president of the United States in January.
As if the process wasn’t already sufficiently muddled, we now have “provisional [...]
