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Building the Business

Lish Staging Launched!

August 18, 2010

If you’ve been following this blog for any period of time, you probably know that my wife handles all of the marketing, sales and staging of our properties. With many years experience managing large marketing teams for Fortune 500 companies, she is by-far the greatest resource our company has. (It’s no coincidence that [...]

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123Flip Newsletter

July 29, 2010

I’ve had a Newsletter Signup form on my website for over a year now, and while I’ve had a lot of people sign up, I never started sending our 123Flip.com Newsletter…
I’m planning to change that, and will be starting to send a regular newsletter within the next couple weeks or so. I plan to [...]

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Back In The Hunt

July 27, 2010

Spent the weekend looking at a bunch of properties for the first time in a while. I was pleasantly surprised that there were some seemingly good deals out there, but at the same time, when I talked to the listing agents to get their status, it appears many of them either already had offers [...]

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Back to Work

June 13, 2010

Sorry the blog has been slow for several weeks now, but it’s been about 6 weeks since the tax credit expired and about 6 weeks since we’ve spent any time thinking about buying and rehabbing properties. But, now that things have settled down with all the tax credit buying and selling, I think we’re [...]

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Value of Being an Agent

January 24, 2010

I often get asked the question of whether having your real estate license as an investor is a good idea. I discuss most of the pros and cons in this article, but I wanted to throw out another — real life — data point…
I’m finishing up my taxes for last year, and thought it [...]

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Lonnie Deals

September 10, 2009

While this site is primarily geared towards flipping houses, I like to use the blog to highlight all the real estate activities of our business, even those that don’t necessarily have to do with rehabbing or flipping. And we’re planning to start branching out just a bit…
For those not familiar with the concept, there’s [...]

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Building Our Reputation

September 8, 2009

While I like to think that my wife, brother and I are doing a great job building our real estate business, it’s always nice to see a little bit of recognition from outside of the company walls…
About a month ago, I was contacted by a journalist writing an online article about how to buy short [...]

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Year 1 Recap!

August 12, 2009

It’s officially been one year since my wife and I started flipping houses. After spending more than a year to research, write our business plan, get familiar with the local real estate market, and get settled back into the East Coast before we started investing, it certainly seems like we’ve been doing this forever. [...]

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Advanta Out of Business

June 1, 2009

In my article on “Building Business Credit,” I recommended Advanta Mastercard as great business credit card to use for your business. Their terms were very good, their customer support was great, and their reporting to the credit bureaus would allow you to build credit quickly.
Unfortunately, I just got word last week that Advanta has [...]

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Working On New Logo

April 19, 2009

Our company is looking for a new logo…
While we love our signs and our marketing materials, our logo leaves a bit to be desired, so we’ve decided to hire out the work to some really creative folks over at 99Designs.com. If you’re not familiar with the site, it’s a place where people who need [...]

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