ATTENTION REAL ESTATE INVESTORS

I love Disney’s animated Phineas & Ferb show. * The oddly shaped heads of the characters. * The very sophisticated, yet clean, humor. * The super cool superhero Perry the Platypus. * And the oddly loveable “villain” Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz. So what on earth does this have to do with real estate investing? Simple. Phineas & Ferb want to make…

Don’t let yourself be trapped by trying to do exactly what a book tells you to do. Life doesn’t follow a script. (If only it did!) And your real estate investing business certainly doesn’t either. You have to know how to roll with the punches, not be stuck into a corner with no way out. That’s the problem with teachers…

I let my older son see me do business. I bring him to houses I rehab, to our rentals during inspection, and to wholesale deal settlements because I want him to see that people can be — and need to be — productive. And then I show him what that productivity allows us to do: * Fun stuff. * Adventures.…

I always see people give advice to set BIG goals and then go after them. But I disagree. I’ve done much better having scaled my goals back. The smaller targets are actually achievable. And therefore you actually get more done. Much more. So rather than have “world domination” as your big goal and then wondering why you didn’t achieve it…

Everyone needs a solid attorney behind them. * Walter White had Saul Goodman as his attorney. * Michael Corleone had Tom Hagen as his consigliere. * Donald Trump (the real estate developer) had George Ross. * Now as President he has the Justice Department. Fictional or real. Good guy or bad guy. They all need solid legal consul to do…