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Back when I was selling newspaper advertising for a living, I met an ad agency owner named Bill Green. He was a great guy and a big-spending customer, but he was hardly ever in the office. When I [...]

Growing up in New York, it was always expected that I would eventually make my way down to Florida like my relatives before me. Half of my family are still snowbirds, spending the winter months [...]

A friend of mine was recently visiting to do some fishing and stayed at my Wisconsin cabin north of Wausau. Being a good friend, I decided to take a few days off and do some fishing, too. The [...]

Just the other day, I was driving around and saw a hand-drawn sign tied to a post. It said “GET RICH QUICK”, and said that you could learn how to “fix and flips houses” and “get money easy”.  [...]

I was having dinner with a friend down by the river recently and a good conversation about real estate investing started up. At one point, he asked me what I needed. I told him the basics: the [...]

My niece Terry graduated with a BA in Logistics three years ago and has been working with a shipping company buying plastic pallets ever since. She is full of ambition and energy but told me over [...]

I bought a tea set on Craigslist once, as a gift. I’ve bought three trucks on Craigslist, a trailer, and a trail-ready atv. I also bought a four-legged table and adopted a three-legged dog on [...]

As a professional real estate investor for several years, I’m often asked by friends and family to weigh in on this opportunity or that opportunity to supposedly strike it rich in real estate. [...]

Before I first started flipping houses as a business in Rochester the internet existed, but nobody had figured out a good way to use it yet. So when I tried to educate myself on the subject, I [...]