ATTENTION REAL ESTATE INVESTORS

I see it all the time. When you think you already have a bit of real estate training, you may be apt to think you can skip various parts of a system that you finally decided to follow. But with a good system — a complete system — you can’t skip anything, as you don’t really know what you are…

During the 2nd World War, my all-time hero Winston Churchill set up an elite “Special Operations Executive” to “conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers.” It became known as the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare”. Why? Because they did all the “irregular” type of missions. * The secret stuff. * The crazy and outlandish. * Things…

Watch the “Italian Job”. (The 1969 original with Michael Caine, not the more recent American remake.) Why? Best cliffhanger of all time. (Pun intended. But I won’t spoil it if you haven’t already seen it.) But also because you’ll learn a great lesson about business. Namely “Don’t celebrate until it is ALL over.” Be sure the job is done before…

I’ve been accused of living too large. Travelling too much. Eating too well. Spending too much time with my friends and family. Seriously? Is that really possible? Is there a limit to how much of these is enough? Nope. Not in my book. “But Tom, not everyone can do that”. I disagree. I’d say it’s more accurate that “not everyone…

I’m getting ready for the “Roaring 20s”. No, that doesn’t mean dressing up like a “flapper”. It means being prepared as a “flipper”. A flipper of houses, that is. And it’s the decade of the 2020’s I’m referring to. With the economic engine of America finally being unleashed, we are in for a fabulous time of sustained economic prosperity. (I…