Most New Realtors Are Not Prepared for the Shock. My guess is that most people who enter the real estate business as salespersons have never attempted to establish and maintain a personal financial life based on commission earnings.They are in for a shock.Real estate sales is an odd business, rea
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06/26/2013
One of the benefits of having a real estate license and being an active member of the Multiple Listing Service is the ability to search for good investment properties, buy them, and save at least ½ of the real estate commission. Through a somewhat casual and certainly an unscientific methodology,
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06/25/2013
I’ve read self-help books for many years. Often times I don’t learn anything I didn’t already know. But the worth comes when they point out that I’ve inadvertently gone off track. W. Clement Stone ===>> There are many famous self-help books that date back decades. Here are two: Napoleon Hill’
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06/23/2013
A good part of America gets phone calls from people and companies they don’t know, and when they answer, there’s no one on the other end. Just silence... And more silence. In many cases it’s planned that way by the caller…which is normally a robocaller. Some studies have shown... That it is bett
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06/18/2013
Today I wondered where I stood among the ActiveRain Realtors who show the City of Dallas as their home base. Here’s what I discovered: I’m number 5 with 307,735 points. Ahead of me beginning at the top is Steve Shatsky with 725,920; then Lisa Von Domek with 645,922. Next is Richard Weeks with
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06/16/2013
The ActiveRain counter shows that as of today, June 12, 2013, 8,957 people have read my post of last week titled, “I Wonder Why Realtors Drive a Lexus.” Thanks to all of you! And it became apparent that for many, I unintentionally hit a nerve. Two hundred, twenty-six of you have posted comments,
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06/12/2013
A Business Lesson with Walt Disney, Arranged by My Daddy My daddy had a strange assortment of friends who were public figures. I never thought to ask him why they knew each other; nevertheless, they did. One of them was Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck’s father. About 1963 Disneyland in
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06/09/2013
In the Olden Days, people who bought Cadillacs were assumed to be financially well-off. And most were. Those who weren’t were quickly found out and thought to be nothing more than four flushers. People who weren’t considered wealthy, if they bought a Cadillac, did it as a reward to themselves –
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06/05/2013
Many years ago, commercial banks – the guys whose bank was named something like First National Bank of Phoenix – didn’t make long term real estate loans. They were primarily short term lenders, and that was because most of their deposits were short term. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Why would you l
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06/03/2013
William S. Cherry & No Company America's Financial Management Coach Dallaswww.parkavenuewealthcoach.com A Significant Number of Elderly Are Financially Drowning After the Great Depression, a work ethic that encompassed employers and employees assured that a good portion of the American workfo
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06/03/2013
