A couple months ago I talked about this thing coming with mortgage brokers and actually think it is a great idea. In my original article I wrote of a mortgage broker that told my clients to lie on their application and if I should ask, lie to me so they could get the loan. In the process they end
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03/16/2008
About six months ago a young married couple, I would say no more than 20 or 21, came in to an open house of mine with their one year old baby. They were just looking since they had been across the street filling out a rental application for some apartments.They were amazed when I told them that t
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03/16/2008
One of the things I love about my family is every night we have dinner together, talk about the day, and just spend a little time together. No distraction of the phone, TV, computer, or anything.We each get to talk about what is going on, even though we all really know because my kids are home ta
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03/15/2008
Yep, you read that correctly! I read a title to an article the other day, and then another, and another, saying how great it is to move abroad. After reading all these titles, I had to ask the question myself. Would moving abroad really be that good for me and my family?Questions kept popping up.
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03/15/2008
Today is Friday, March 14, 2008 and it is time for another breakdown of homes sales in the Washington County, Oregon market. I'm happy to say if you own a lower to medium priced home, sales are still making a moderate increase, if your home is price correctly.While this is good news, higher price
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03/14/2008
Have you ever wondered how the rich get richer? Why they are able to make so much money and never seem to lose? They have a secret and some of my investors now also have the same secret.I've been teaching this method of making money in real estate at my investor club meetings for two years now, a
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03/12/2008
Recently I lost a client because I insisted they get a pre-approval letter before I showed them a home. I would like to write this post to my future clients and any future home buyer that wants to start looking for a home.The pre-approval letter is a very important step in the process of buying a
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03/10/2008
I know my parents looked at me the same way your parents did when you were born. Nothing was going to stop you, whatever you chose to do, you were going to be great and nothing was going to stop you!Then, as we grew, the world was slowly putting thoughts in your mind, making us doubt ourselves. I
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03/10/2008
I keep getting told time and time again by the investors I meet at my empowered investors networking meetings, that they just can't get 100% financing anymore and it is hard to come up with 10% over and over to buy more properties for investment purposes.I tell them there are plenty of opportunit
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03/09/2008
Nothing makes me feel better than when a client gives me a gift. It tells me I'm doing something right, but the gift that I was given last night CHANGED MY LIFE! You see my client gave me tickets to the longest running one man show on Broadway, "Defending the Caveman", and my wife and I were laug
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03/08/2008
