When I Started I Knew That I Wanted To Sell Apartment Houses By syndicating them and then property managing them during our ownership. To do this I found that my best sources for leads was teaching at UCLA in their evening Real Estate classes, speaking at Apartment Association meetings, and regularly reconnecting with previous clients. […]
California Has Billions In Unclaimed Cash, And Some Might Belong To You
The Headline Says It All Each year I post this and we always receive responses from readers who found money for themselves or others. About 580,000 claims were filed in the 2017-18 fiscal year totaling about $309 million. The average amount of money paid out was $534, according to the controller’s office. BTW, they have […]
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Winning
From My Websters: To Be First Or Best In, Or As If In A Contest Lots of discussion about winning right now involving World Series, football, round ball, elections, etc. There are thousands of famous quotes from famous people about this topic such as winning is the only thing, everything, second after breathing, second place […]
Smart Homes; Agents Be Careful Out There
The Orange County Realtors Led by David and Cassie has scheduled an outstanding speaker to present numerous seminars at the Association. His name is Craig Grant from Florida and he is known as the Real Estate Tech Guru. His forte is Social Media. His seminars are expensive normally, but OCR presents them free to members. I […]
New Agency Disclosure Bills
The State Of California In Their Fashion Has Passed Two New Bills AB 1289 and AB2884. They were sponsored by CAR. On both bills the final votes in the Assembly was 80-0 and in the Senate 39-0. Not too much controversy. CAR calls them “clean-up legislation” and they changed large segments of the Civil Code […]
Memories: The Year 1972
This Was An Outstanding Bantam Team (Mostly 9th Graders) Did well. Should have won it all, but the Head Coach screwed up. We should have run a spread with the talent we had. Lost in the final game 6-0 to the Reseda Rams. On one of the last plays of the game, we had a […]
I Meet The Strangest People
This Time The Strange People Are From My Office Last Month You can probably guess which day. Reading from left to right you have Mary Sivak, as The Great Catsby. Christie Olson as a pirate, Trista Ramirez as a Price Is Right contestant. Next we have Lana Solovyev as a scarecrow, Grace Mangalus as an […]
More Networking
I Was Having Lunch At Claim Jumper Years Ago With My Very Good Friend Terry Yapp He is a highly respected Real Estate Practitioner in Mission Viejo. I met him when he was farming my home in MV years ago. When the bill came, it was his turn to pay. He put his credit card […]
Rental Owners And Property Managers Query
I’d Like To Have Your Opinion On A Question And then I will give you mine. A Tenant has a years’ lease, and is a good tenant as most of them are. You are the kind-hearted owner. Lease is over. Two choices; re-lease for another year or continue on under the roll-over provision in almost all […]