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I’m from Newark. If you’re not from Newark, you probably reacted to that statement by taking a step back. Newark, eh? Isn’t that a little…gritty? I get it. Here in the heart of New Jersey, [...]

Here’s a true story. When we were little kids, growing up in Illinois, my dad told us that Cleveland didn’t exist. It was a fictional place, like Star Wars or something. He did it just to be [...]

The Orlando, Florida area can be a great place to buy real estate—just ask Walt Disney. The park he built laid the groundwork for the transformation of this area from rural swamp to cultural [...]

I recently went out to dinner with a group of friends and talk turned, as it often does, to our neighborhoods. One woman, Krista, talked about how she and her husband were looking to buy. They [...]

My parents played a game when I was growing up, usually on Sunday afternoons. We’d go out for a drive and they’d point at houses they liked. One house, they’d say they loved the trim. But, the [...]

A few weeks ago I went downstate to visit my sister and her family in Ottowa, Illinois. When my brother-in-law and I went fishing on the river, he decided to give me some free real estate [...]

I was an insurance lawyer for a long time before I started wholesaling, about 25 years. I was more or less content with the salary, so I just stayed where I felt safe and comfortable—until my [...]

My great-grandparents shouldered a heap of trouble getting to Oregon. Mud, bugs, rain, snow, heat, the great prairie, the Rocky mountains, broken lands and bogs and bears. Why’d they do it? They [...]

I used to think that only rich people could invest in real estate—that it was an occupation for the gold toilet set, not for porcelain joes like me. I didn’t really get how things worked then, [...]