To go off the post from a few days ago The person that runs ultra marathons Or that successful ceo  The chiseled body builder  The loving family  How do they do it?  None of it happened overnight, they started somewhere and over time - it added up to mind blowing results And the same goes … Continue reading 586. How do you do it?

Qualification standards are there for a reason  To judge everyone fairly  To not waste anyone’s time  Sometimes the standards get ignored (that’s when a pickle happens)  Sometimes the standards are followed (more of this)  And these standards hold particularly well in renting out real estate and qualifying applicants 

That successful CEO we all see? Failed thousands of times before his overnight success became a reality  That super-fast ultra runner? Has been running for 20 years.  That chiseled body builder? Used to be 300 pounds overweight and had her nose on the grindstone for the past 27 years.  That loving family? Has gone through … Continue reading 584. We all start somewhere 

What’s your prescreening say?  In real estate; we’re taught to prescreen potential applicants Not just based on their application or the resume, because anyone can make that look good.  There’s more to it:  how they present themselves, how they interact with us, how they communicate and act, even what their home looks like, how they … Continue reading 583. Prescreening

Do it every day  Whatever it is  Consistency  Want to become a better runner? Run everyday  Want to become a better person at expressing your thoughts? Write everyday  Want to develop your faith? Read scripture every day.  Doing something every day is the key, that’s how we get better  Because we’re either getting better or … Continue reading 582. How to get better 

Take 10% of our income off the top and put it into a separate account, even if it’s only a dollar.  It may be slow going, but eventually as the days and years pass, it adds up.  It’s helping us with discipline, to do what we say we’re going to do - to put 10% … Continue reading 581. 10% of our income

Smiling lightens the mood,  It allows us to not take life so seriously  There’s an art to that, and science behind that  How often are we smiling? Is it all the time?  Only when we’re out in public? Never?  And let’s make sure we’re smiling at our loved ones too  they deserve it  more than … Continue reading 580. Walking around w a smile 

A common rookie mistake is jumping into real estate without having a plan for the type of business that’s being built.  Usually it ends up being because a friend or family member had a property that we got, made a few hundred a month and tried to do it again, seems reasonable right?  But it … Continue reading 579. Real estáte 

Ever hear the saying that we should ask ourselves why 5 times to find the real reason?  Because the first reason we think, is usually a smoke screen.  Here’s an example for real estate, because everyone wants to be a real estate investor:  Why do you want to invest in real estate? To create cash … Continue reading 578. Why x5

Try to Figure it out anyway?  Get advice from people?  Nothing?  Cry and pout? There’s a difference in the type of people who go one way vs the other,  and we can try to go this or that way as often as we’d like