I received several emails yesterday from someone who had attended my probate seminar this past April at LAX.  After beating around the bush with several replies back and forth, he finally got to what he was looking for.

It seems that his idea was that I would feed him deals that he would work and learn the probate investment business by, presumably, applying what he learned along the way on those leads.  (more…)

Recently, I read a post on one of the R. E. discussion boards from a homeowner named ‘Alice’ who at the time, seemed to me to represent the mentality of perhaps hundreds of thousands of borrowers angry about loosing their homes and looking for someone (like investors) to blame.  Here’s my post: (more…)

I’ve never lost sleep about a deal I didn’t do.  That’s always been true, even if someone else came behind me, bought it, and made a ton of dough.  After all, what’s peace of mind worth to you?

On the other hand, we don’t make money if we don’t make offers and do deals.  Here’s what I experienced during the last few days: (more…)

If you’re circling a property, especially ever-smaller concentric circles but don’t result in putting your knuckles to the wood, you’ll never have any success until you get over the fear of talking to strangers. 

My parents even told me, “don’t talk to strangers.”  However, talking to strangers is what I do best.  It’s also made me a pile of dough, too.    (more…)