22nd September 2009
Any time you are flipping houses it is less risky if you can complete the project more quickly. This is especially true now (2009) when prices may fall even further as you wait to sell the home. But at any time there are good reasons to move fast. One obv...
21st September 2009
Of course it isn't difficult to find a real estate agent, but there are good and bad ones out there. The following tips should help you find the right one for you.
Your Real Estate Purpose
Which agent is best for you depends on your goals. If you a...
18th September 2009
A good real estate investment club helps its members find investment opportunities. It also helps bring people together in profitable partnerships. It can be a place to find alternative sources of financing as well. Here are some tips for making your club...
30th August 2009
The following real estate investment ideas revolve around the general theme of gaining some special advantage. This is more necessary that normal at the moment (2009) because it is unclear whether home values will continue to fall. Having the right approa...
26th August 2009
Where can you find cheap homes for sale? Add "that are also in a nice town" and that was the question we were trying to answer when my wife and I hit the road in 2002. Leaving Michigan early in April, we checked out towns from New Mexico and Arizona to Ca...
30th July 2009
When people think of how to sell a house fast, they often think of how to advertise it better, or how to make it more presentable. That can be a good start, of course, but it ignores the single most important factor: price. Generally, if homes are selling...
23rd July 2009
What are the best jobs in a recession? That depends on what you goals are. Mostly they are the same jobs as at any other time. If you are working to make the most money you can, they are high-paying jobs. If you are working to train yourself for a future ...
21st July 2009
There are a number of speed reading techniques that you can learn quickly. The key to their effectiveness is not just in how well you understand the idea, though, but in how much you actually practice them. Here are two to get you started.
Forced Spee...
18th July 2009
Typically wilderness survival kits have first aid items, ways to make fire, a blade of some sort, and some water purification tablets. That’s the minimum in any case, and there are certainly other items in almost any kit that you buy. But of course not ...
11th July 2009
As I write this (mid 2009) home prices appear to be falling still and, of course, recent experience shows us that they do not always rise from year to year. But not even the most pessimistic analysts think they can keep dropping for too many years. So wer...
28th June 2009
There is an old joke that starts by asking you, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” Whether you answer yes or no it sounds like you are admitting to being a wife beater. It’s a practical joke based on the use of an implicit premise - that you ...
26th June 2009
The very concept of retirement is flawed. It is based on several false premises. First is the premise that at a certain age you are no longer able to provide economic value. That is clearly nonsense as shown by the many millionaire entrepreneurs and busin...
17th June 2009
Just so readers of my blog (www.999ideas.com/blog/) don’t think that I do nothing but dream up ideas without ever putting them to use, I’ll tell you what I am doing right now. I am putting to use the idea (not entirely my own) of giving away books to ...
12th June 2009
Coming from a philosophical background which sees self interest as both natural and even the basis of morality, it was difficult for me to understand how transcending the “self” might actually be a good thing. For years I hesitated to even give any cr...
11th June 2009
Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my Brainpower Newsletter know that I’m a believer in safe self-experimentation. In fact, I regularly recommend trying things out that do not yet have scientific evidence proving their effectiveness. After al...
