29 Oct, 2026
From hiking in Arches in 106 degree weather to horseback riding in Bryce Canyon to breaking my shoe in the muck in the Narrows – it was an epic adventure…
I’ve looked at thousands of houses over the years, and one of the fastest ways to get a conversation sideways is to start with the sentence, “My house is worth…
The court website will tell you what forms to file. It will show you the steps. The sequence. The structure. If you follow it carefully, you can get through the…
I wrote about this back in 2009. The idea was simple then, and it hasn’t changed: most people confuse activity with accomplishment. If anything, it’s worse now. We have more…
You’ll hear people say: “Nobody quits being a landlord after one bad tenant.” That sounds good. It also isn’t true. I’ve seen people get out after one. In Detroit. And…

Michigan Real Estate Investing TV: Forced Saving Makes You Rich

This is a follow up to the post I did yesterday on the necessity of having rental properties if you have a day job and don’t get all the Federal and State income taxes back that you pay. I buy another cash flow property with my windfall. Think about what doing the same thing over […]

How to Buy Your FIRST Apartment Building: Feb 6, 2010

Due to the tidal wave of chaos and uncertainty that’s building right now in commercial real estate, I believe that 2010 is the year to buy Apartment Buildings! Because of this I’m teaching a half-day FREE seminar on How to Buy Your FIRST Apartment Building. Saturday, February 6, 2010. 8:30 am to 1:00pm. There’s a […]

Michigan Real Estate Investing TV: When Vendors Go Bad

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 […]

Michigan Real Estate Investing TV: 2010 is for PLANNING?!?

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?

Michigan Real Estate Investing TV: Start With the Scary Names

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 […]