Cash Flow Real Estate Investing, Rants and Raves

Burn Your Ships? I Don’t Think So!

Jobs are awesome. Having a job is one of the greatest benefits you can have while you’re starting a business. Especially a real estate business that takes some time to ramp up. The reason is, as I discussed in the last post, is because a job serves as a safety net. You have a source of income coming in. You can put food on the table, pay your mortgage or rent, and put gas in…

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Cash Flow Real Estate Investing, Rants and Raves

J.O.B. Seriously?

Are you a sick and tired of this as I am? It seems like every time I check my email, some idiot goo-roo is pitching his “solution” to having a job. And of course they have all kinds of cutsey acronyms for JOB. Tell me if you’ve heard these: – Just Over Broke – Just Obey Boss – Jackass Of Boss And on and on and on. Well you know what? Those f’ing goo-roos can…

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Cash Flow Real Estate Investing, Landlording

Newsflash – It Ain’t That Hard to Be a Set and Forget Landlord…

Here’s a news flash – being a landlord isn’t rocket science. Seriously. It just ain’t all that hard to own rental properties and make money at it. With very little work on your part. Actually – to be precise, it ain’t all that hard IF you do two simple and pretty obvious things. And that’s to heed the Two Critical Success Factors for owning rental properties. That’s all it takes. Seriously. If you simply heed…

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Cash Flow Real Estate Investing, Landlording

I Have a Secret…

Yep. I have a secret. Something that I’ve never told anyone. But I have to come clean. What’s the secret? Well, I have a tenant in one of my houses. They moved in right after I bought it in the fall of 2006. They’ve been with me now for seven and a half years. The secret is that I haven’t raised their rent one dime since they’ve been living there. That’s right – they’re paying…

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Cash Flow Real Estate Investing

Not All Detroit Suburbs Were Created Equal

Crazy. Not just garden variety crazy. Nope. I’m talking batsh*t crazy. I got an email yesterday. From another crack smoking clown, who doesn’t even live here, peddling turn key properties here to unsuspecting investors out of state and out of the country. This guy has made a career out of shoveling crap Detroit properties with section 8 tenants out the door by the truck load. But now his game has changed. His email yesterday was…

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Rants and Raves, Scotch & Cigars

The 18 Best Bottles Of Scotch In The World?

I was excited when I saw the headline in the Business Insider that they were talking about the 18 best bottles of scotch in the world. I mean, I have my own personal preferences, and I can appreciate a great glass of scotch, but my wallet isn’t in any condition to afford anything on a “best scotch list”, that’s for sure. But I still like to read about it. And so I did. And I…

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