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CONFESSIONS OF A REAL ESTATE JUNKIE/TAX TIME
If you're like many Real Estate Agents, you may have just finished up your 2009 tax preparation. Or maybe, you're still working on them and considering filing for an extension.

In an interesting way, tax time, as painful as it is, also gives us another opportunity, like the new year, to resolve to do things differently, better in the year ahead. There is something powerful about putting all the numbers together on one summary sheet; gross commissions from your Form 1099, and then all your various expenses to make you stop and think.
Especially that 1099 form. For 2009, many agents saw a 25% to 50% drop in commissions as compared to their best year. They've been aware, certainly, of their lowered standard of living, but seeing the numbers in black and white makes it somehow more real.
It's at this point that most Agents decree, I'll do better in the coming year. That sense of optimism is both healthy and commendable, but I think it's going to take more than just that to make it so.
What if there was a better approach to help ensure that, in fact 2010 was a more fruitful year in terms of earnings ... more

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