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This was a lot of fun. The great folks at our bank, the National City branch at Maple and Lahser in Bloomfield Hills, hosted it. I’ll post pictures later

It’s long. It’s boring. and it’s really, really dry. But I love it because it means I’m buying another apartment building! Great Lakes Investment Fund 1 is full – Fund 2 will be getting started shortly – watch this space!

What’s the first thing that a deal partner or investor is going to ask you when you pitch them on a project? “How am I going to get my money back.” So that makes your exit strategy the key to your proposal.

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 […]

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 […]

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?