michigan real estate investing

Stop me if you have heard this one before: you spend time looking for a good service provider. You go through two or three before you find someone that’s great, then you give them all of your business. Then something strange happens – their prices start to go up, they get more difficult to get a hold of, and they stop meeting deadlines. What do you do when that happens?

I was listening to one of the talking heads over the weekend on one of the paid programming financial shows. His advice to everyone in 2010? Do nothing. Use the year for “planning”. In this time of unprecedented opportunity, all that’s all this guy can come up with?

As a follow up, during my long sit down on Friday we talked about various aspects of commercial real estate. He asked about what I had done, then suggested a course of action that blew me away.

I’ve had about a half dozen people on my list now for a couple of years that I have wanted to sit down with. Since I’m going in a new direction in 2010 I thought that it made sense to talk to those folks because they’ve already done it. I had my first sit down yesterday – and it went way beyond my expectations.

Do you get emails that say that? I just received the 11th one in the last month. I bit on a couple of them before I figured out what that meant.

I’m happy to help, but there’s a difference between asking for help and pitching!