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The “Real Estate Principles – Your Personal Path to Prosperity” eBook was created to provide you with a through overview of the tools and skills you need to build a successful Real Estate Investment Business including Organizational skills, Marketing skills, Deal Funding skills, Time Management skills, Exit Strategies, Closing skills and Wealth Building techniques designed to enable you to take your business to the next level.

This innovative, practical Guide includes valuable information on: Read More→

“The journey of ten thousand miles begins with the first step” – Lao Tzu

So I  took my first step to look for a commercial real estate investing which will give me the immediate cash flow, potential income and opportunity to expand. After more than one and half year I found it!

My name is Sophie Ting. I would like to share with you my journey. I started with Robert Kiyosaki’s free seminar, and then moved on to the 3-day $500 seminar. I turned down the next course, which costs $25,000.

My first venture into commercial real estate investing was student housing. I chose it because I was very familiar with it, but it did not work.  I am really glad today that it did not, because the net income has no comparison to what I am getting today. Read More→

Serendipity abounds, there are no coincidences. It’s a phrase I often use in attempt to explain the abundance of goodness that exists among what people normally perceive as ordinary. Such was the remarkable life and the historical contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. The actual imprint he will have left on humanity will long survive the fading memory of the significance of his contributions.

Just as Martin Luther impacted the religious traditions of the known world by triggering the protestant reformation with the tacking of his famous 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, MLK is singularly credited as being the progenitor of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. The parallels of significance between these two seemingly very different personalities and the depth of contribution to civilization cannot be understated, although a parallel is rarely, if ever drawn.  Read More→

For some reason, many folks think luck plays an important role in whether a real estate investor is successful or not.  The truth is, luck plays almost no part in an investor’s success – or lack thereof. 

Think of it this way: Let’s say you decide to run a five-kilometer (3.1 miles) race three months from today.  You run every morning.  Each morning, you run a little further than the day before.  Finally, two weeks before your big race, you’re able to run four miles without stopping.  When race day comes, you easily cross the finish line – raising your arms in celebration for having achieved your goal.  Here’s the important question: Was your success due to luck or was it due to persistence and determination? Read More→

In business, goal setting encourages business owners to put in substantial effort. Also, because every one has defined expectations for their role, little room is left for inadequate effort to go unnoticed. Goals are therefore an important tool for business owners, since goals have the ability to function as a self-regulatory mechanism that everyone involved put forth a certain level of activity. Shalley, Locke and Latham have distilled four mechanisms through which goal setting can affect individual performance:

1. Goals focus attention towards goal-relevant activities and away from goal-irrelevant activities.
2. Goals serve as an energizer; higher goals induce greater effort while low goals induce lesser effort.
3. Goals affect persistence; constraints with regard to resources affect work pace.
4. Goals activate cognitive knowledge and strategies that help employees cope with the situation at hand.

On Monday, January 9th at the Atlanta REIA Main Meeting & New Year’s Celebration, I will be talking about how we can all set some realistic, easily achievable goals to make 2012 our most successful and profitable year ever. I hope to see you there! Read More→