How to Pick the Market and the Team This is Part 3 of a series on how to get started in real estate. Each new installment will be a bite-sized tutorial gleaned from 30 years of investing experience. The goal is to remove as much doubt and fear as possible, so you’ll begin, or continue,
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This is a guest article from my friend, Leif Dahleen, who writes the Physician on Fire blog. Leif and I met at a conference and he was kind enough to write a review of my book, Why Doctors Don’t Get Rich. He was very complimentary but took issue with my treatment of the stock market.
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I played tennis with Sir Richard Branson the other day. Pretty cool, huh? So why do I brag about that? Because it’s a fun story and, as always, there’s a lesson. Here’s how it happened. I was with friends at an unrelated event and, out of the blue, one said, “You should come to Necker
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Though real estate investing has historically ebbed and flowed with respect to popularity, today many are trying to get in on the action. With the desire to invest in hard assets comes the pesky requirement to have money available to invest. That typically comes from personally available liquid assets. For some, that pool of money
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True story! More than twenty years ago, I was sitting down on a Sunday evening reading the paper. (For you millennials, a newspaper is like a website you can hold in your hands.) In the real estate section, there was a student condo listed for sale near the University of Texas. I turned to my
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I live in Austin, Texas. It’s a great town and I’ve been here for 50 years. People are moving here by the thousands. I understand why. It’s a hip town, with plenty of options. There are seven lakes within an hour’s drive. New restaurants pop up every month. The music scene is electric. And the
Today was “Student Day” at church. It was a big departure from the regular service, and it was fun! The biggest thing I noticed was the enthusiasm of the middle school and high school-aged students. They were excited to be on stage and excited to sing and share their joy. It was infectious. I went
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Last night I asked my Inner Circle members what success looked like to them. The answers were thoughtful and honest. Most valued the ability to be with family, enjoy life, and serve others. Each person mentioned, in one way or another, the potential to have freedom of choice and the desire to live life to
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(Greetings from the beaches of Belize. Thankfully, technology allows me to get you something useful and not have to be in front of my computer!) My mother always taught me to speak properly and avoid foul language. I tried, but didn’t always live up to her faith in me. As I’ve matured, my speech patterns
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In 2004, the movie, Friday Night Light Lights was released. This was a dramatized account that followed the 1988 season of the Odessa, Texas Permian Panthers high school football team. There’s a scene at a hamburger joint where a thirty-something guy sits down, uninvited, with the current high school football stars. He appears to have
