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I don’t have much new to report on the business front (I spent most of the week in Jury Duty, unfortunately)…so I thought I’d make a rare personal post…
I wanted to take a moment to announce a new member of the Lish Team…he (or she) will be joining us in about 7 months. I’d [...]

We’ve had two minor issues at The Second Chance House that have indicated to us that we need to have some degree of security system installed before staging the house and leaving it vacant.
First, the air conditioner was stolen from the back yard about a week before we closed on the purchase of [...]

A couple people who also flip houses have asked me about my method of accounting and recording keeping for the work that I’m doing. I wanted to give a quick summary, which will hopefully help explain why I group costs and financial data in the way that I do. For those who aren’t [...]

A reader of mine asked me if I would write a bit about negotiation. While I’d love to say I know everything there is about negotiating property purchases and negotiating with contractors, I’m still learning the intricacies of real estate negotiation. That said, there are a lot of very general negotiating principles that [...]