The Investor Insights

Today I have a dose of tough love for you. And I’m taking the medicine too, so we’re in this together. I had a training session for some of my students last night and when polled 74% of them did not have a business plan. No plan at all for success. It was shocking but [...]

This is a post that’s taken me a while to write.  On May 17th my niece and friend Denise was killed by her ex-fiancé in a murder suicide. It’s horrifying to type those words but I still feel numb.  It’s as if your brain just shuts off the pain because it is too overwhelming to [...]

Subtitle:  And a Few Places to Find Motivated Sellers You’ve seen the news. More borrowers are under water with their mortgage payments, according to Zillow.com. Home prices fell another2.6% in the last quarter of 2010. Now, nearly a third (27%) of homeowners with mortgages are upside down in their loans. While that is bad news [...]

Last weekend, I was on a total Dave and Buster’s kick. If you’re not familiar, it’s a huge arcade for kids and adults. I took my 6 year old nephew Ronin there on Saturday and he pooped out after a few hours “Aunt Susan, I’m TIRED of shooting!” I admit it, I love the shooting [...]

I get a *ton* of emails daily from this website and various other websites I have around the web. One ongoing issue that I keep running into is the appalling lack of, well, anything really in the emails I get. Usually it goes like this.. 1.  I get an email that I can barely decipher. [...]