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The Open-Source Investor (more-so than before)

December 14th, 2010

It’s the end of another long night.  It’s actually 4:18am right now and I’m just now wrapping up my Monday.  I kind of had to redeem myself from earlier today because I spent nearly the ‘entire’ day stuck on a technical issue with one of my websites.  Thus, the reason I don’t have a passion for anything IT (Information Technology).  Things are beautiful when they work…but when they don’t, I feel like breaking stuff!  But, the good news is that I got it taken care of.  Instead of going the manual route, I had to break-down and buy a plugin to do all of the dirty work for me.  That’s what I get for being cheap, I guess.  But enough about technical stuff for now.

I’ve been thinking all day today (in between curse words spewed at my computer screen) about how to take this blog to the next level.  To be honest, I’m starting to get bored with it.  And I think, if I was a reader, I’d be a bit bored of reading it too.  I’ve been keeping this journal for just over 2 years.  And it’s time to kick things up a notch to make it more enticing to read and as important, more enticing for me to want to contribute.

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Can’t Take it ANYMORE!

December 6th, 2010


I’ve been working
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
hard.

When I need to working
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
smart.

I’ve known about virtual assistants for some time now, but have been burned by the few that I’ve had.  By the way the ones that burned me were american.  So much for providing US jobs huh…

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Short Sales Suck…or Do They?

November 23rd, 2010

Yo! So I turned Thirty today.  And I’m loving it. Thank God for the privilege to see another birthday!  And that is for shizzle.  Statisically, I think I was supposed to be dead or in jail like 5 years ago or earlier.  That’s both funny and not funny at the same time.

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How do I save webpages…especially password protected ones

September 27th, 2010

I’ve got a quick tip this evening that I figured I’d share.  This tip isn’t so much related to real estate but it can come in handy as I’ve been using it for quite some time.  It’s called “ScrapBook” and it’s a Firefox add-in.  With this add-in, you can save a series of webpages for off-line viewing.  You may be saying to yourself, “what’s the big deal, I can do that already”.  Well, while it’s true that with most web browsers you can download a page for later viewing.  With this add-on you can download an entire website for later viewing.  And while viewing the off-line version, you wouldn’t notice that it wasn’t live.

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2009/2010 Yellow Pages

August 25th, 2009

I indeed decided to place an advertisement in the 2009/2010 Yellow Pages.? Although I believe print advertising is a dying medium, I’m following my gut on this one.? Deep-down, I really believe that the homeowner who is at risk of being foreclosed on may turn to the Yellow Pages to find who to call.? This would be especially true, if that homeowner is older and is more used to using a print directory vs. the internet.? The older homeowner will most likely have more equity in their house; see how this makes sense in my head?? You should.? And the main incentive is that my ad will be the only one in the Real Estate section about foreclosure prevention…boo-yhaw!

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Do It Yourself – Yellow Letter Marketing

August 24th, 2009

Yellow Letter Marketing Wrap-Up

August 23rd, 2009

Onward and Upward

August 20th, 2009

Man, I have been slacking completely on my blogging. I’m back on it though. I haven’t posted any ‘Accountability Tuesday’ updates lately because as I mentioned, I wasn’t going to do so until I completed the launch of my direct mail campaign. It’s still not launched yet. I’m very close however, as I have the mail-merge setup, all of the stationary, and I’ve selected a college student with nice handwriting to handwrite my envelopes and stuff them (all 900 for $120 or $0.13 each). This same college student is going to act as my phone receptionist and field my calls during the day. I found this girl on CraigsList and haven’t met her yet, however she stands far above the other candidates and just from the looks of her on paper. She sent me her resume and this girl is solid, college senior, great relevant work experience, good GPA, etc. I’m to meet her this weekend so that I can get her the materials to get started on this first project of hers’. I can already tell, this girl is a real go-getter…my kind of people. I’m already loving the idea of having a local assistant.

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Yellow Letter Marketing

August 17th, 2009

Late Night/Early Morning

August 15th, 2009

Another Friday night posted at my favorite spot; On the couch, with my laptop on a TV-dinner table. I fell asleep, after going for a long-run (7 miles and could’ve ran more, I still got it!) after work at around 10pm and now I’m up at 3:43am. Don’t know what that’s all about. I’m trying to decide if I should go back to sleep or start Saturday now. Either way, I’m blogging in the meantime.

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