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During the summer months, my wife goes to Sunrise Yoga on the Canal on Wednesdays. I do a few laps around the walk’s three-mile loop, then grab a coffee. It’s a fairly new routine for us, but [...]

In my spare time, when I can find some that is, cooking helps me cope with stressful days at the office. For some reason, it’s very therapeutic to hole up in the kitchen, grab a drink, and create [...]

If you’re an old hat at investing in real estate, like I am, you probably have your own method for getting distressed homeowner leads. Then again, if you’re reading this piece, you’re either just [...]

Fact: Rehabbing a property is the hardest part of buying and selling real estate investments. I can’t tell you the amount of money that my real estate investment buddies and I sank into the [...]

The neighborhood where I grew up still holds a good deal of sentimental value for me. My mom has lived there for close to 55 years and she remains one of the few residents who hasn’t passed on or [...]

I remember how nervous I was when I was buying my first investment property. I wanted every step to run smoothly—so much so, in fact, that I lost a lot of sleep over it. My worrying kept my wife, [...]

Shelley approached me over at Needler’s Fresh Market the other day to get my input on the real estate investment clubs here in Indianapolis. She’s read a lot of books on investing, listened to a [...]

Several months ago, my friend Lawrence and I had a meeting over lunch about where to buy investment property in New Jersey. I’ve been investing in real estate for a long while and, at the time of [...]

Sometime last week I got caught up giving investment property renovation tips to a young guy who was just starting to dip his toe in the water. I mean, I was on a roll for a good ten minutes [...]