encouragement: Win Big in 2010
- 12/21/09 11:43 PM
I believe 2010 will be a "BIG" win for many real estate professionals around the U.S. Why, you might ask? Supply and demand is the basic principal that my theory is based upon. I'm beginning to see (and hear) about more and more agents who are bailing out of the business prior to 2010, opting to not pay association dues. Basically they're giving up! I witnessed this same scenario in our board back the mid-80's, and what happened was a reduction of many real estate agents, and the re-entry of many buyers who realized that the economy was not going to change (7 comments)
encouragement: It's the Little Things in Life...
- 09/03/09 03:18 AM
In his book the Automatic Millionaire David Bach discusses and illustrates the compounding expense of a cappuccino on a daily basis. As Bach points out to a young woman used in his example in the book who is struggling financially that her daily cappuccino purchases can add up to a rather large monthly budget item. Bach indicated that if she would spend that same money on investments for a retirement account or other savings plan the positive results would be mind boggling. For most of us we can figure out expenses and areas in our monthly income and expense budget that are not (2 comments)