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April 1st, 2008

The Market Is Getting Better

It’s true. I believe the market has truly found it’s bottom. Commodity prices have stopped their runup, the dollar has stabilized and best of all, private groups are beginning to buy up distressed assets at low prices. This is truly looking like good news for the economy.

It’s also great news for our family. I started off in real estate when we came back. Some people have called me foolish for getting into a career that was getting hit by bad news, but I didn’t listen. That’s actually a good time to get into a field. If you can make it in a tough market, then you can make it anytime.

April 1st, 2008

Outfitting My Home Office

I have an office set aside in our home for me to do work in. It’s important to have a place set aside where I can do my work without interruption. It’s also important that the office have the right furniture. In fact, good home office furniture can be the difference between getting a lot of productive work done or just spending a lot of time trying to get comfortable.

One place to pick up home office furniture at a good price is Great Priced Furniture. You can shop for all of your furniture needs there and get them at a good price, including furniture for your home office.

March 30th, 2008

Summer Breeze

I am looking forward to summer time. It seems like it’s just around the corner. Ok, I know it snowed a few days ago, but that’s the last gasp of winter. Winter is just getting out the door so we can enjoy good weather.

I am looking forward to a couple of vacations this summer. It should be good, and yes I will be blogging about them. I will make them event blogs. Maybe call one them as a play on summer breeze. Ah, summer breeze makes me feel nice. :)

Event blogs can make a lot of money if done the right way. It sits out there and generates income for years to come if you monetize it the right way.

March 25th, 2008

Looking Into Health Insurance Coverage

I’ve got hopes of branching into my own real estate agency now that I have left TEFL behind. I’m an employee now, but I hope that before long I have the experience and contacts to be my own boss. It will be a very big change and in some ways it’s a leap of faith. I will be 100% responsible for not only my own wages but also my own benefits. With the price of health insurance these days, I have been a little worried about the implication of taking on our own health care costs.

To combat these concerns and worries, I have been doing a lot of research lately on health insurance. This means doing a lot of looking at the types of coverage available as well quotes for coverage. It takes a lot of work to come up with the different coverages vs the different quotes. It means that I have to be on my toes to ensure that I get the best deal possible.

I’ve got help in this question from EZ Insurance Portal. They offer quotes and information for many different types of insurance, including car insurance, health insurance and even home insurance. This means that I am armed with quality information that will help me make the right health insurance quote when the time comes around.

March 24th, 2008

Ebooks Galore

I am thinking that it’s getting to be the right time for me to start writing an ebook about my experiences getting back to the states and making it in real estate. I think everyone is writing an ebook these days and then hawking them online. Most of them are pure money plays, but some of them are genuinely about helping people. The problem is telling the difference.

Many people can just decide to invent their own credentials and without a way to vet them, it could be not much difference then getting barstool advice. Instead of paying for the advice in beer, you pay for it in dollars. It’s because of this that I do not think ebooks are capable of taking off into the mass market.

The subjects in different ebooks are very diverse. You can find an ebook for just about every subject. You would think that with the high availability of ebooks that the prices would come down, but that’s not the case. In fact, prices are as high as they have always been. I wonder if I could make it with a $10 ebook? Probably not, the cost of promotion would be just too high.