Patience in Real Estate, a Virtue?
Our boys were grown and ready to leave the nest. My wife and I began to think about our next step and we found a new place. Now the pressure was on to sell our old place!Should be easy right?We lived in a good location, had an excellent floor plan, upgrades and priced right for the marketplace.NOT!Weeks of gazing prospects, who had nothing better to do on the weekend than evaluate our home as if they were appearing on a television show, plus real estate agents whose communication skills were almost non existent, really put a bad taste in our mouths. We were ready to pull the plug on the whole idea of selling our home.Six months went by and then one evening someone drove by our house and saw the real estate sign in our window, knocked on our door & Bingo! we had a serious prospect who immediately followed up with a couple of property reviews, a written offer and ontract!Moral to the story: Be patient! However, b

Roth Vs. Traditional IRA
There are many schemes available to people who want to save for their retirement. Yet the ones that are the most popular are the regular or Traditional IRA savings and the relatively new Roth IRA. To understand the concepts of the Traditional IRA and the Roth IRA, you should know what an IRA actually is.IRA stands for Individual Retirement Arrangements. More commonly, they are also known as Individual Retirement Accounts. Both are saving plans available to anyone who has a taxable income, but they are subject to certain eligibility laws. An individual can make contributions only from compensation income, which can include wages, salaries, fees, tips, bonuses, commissions, taxable alimony, and separate maintenance payments. It does not include incomes from pension or investments.Traditional IRAIndividuals can make contributions if they have not reached seventy and a half years of age. The eligibility rules vary from individual to ind

What is a 1031 Exchange?
The IRS has an exchange provision that allows you to put the extra money you make off the sale of real estate into another equal or higher value property without paying taxes on the capital gains. You can’t do this on your primary house, but you can on a beach condo or a rent house. There are some things the experts suggest you do.Get what the IRS calls a “Qualified Intermediary.” They will charge between $500 and $1500 for the deal. They escrow the money from the time you sell to the time you buy the new property. You must trade up within 45 days of selling and close the deal within 135 days. Make sure your “QI” is bonded and insured for negligence and fraud.Watch the details. For example, if you bought a property for $200,000 and have depreciated it out for taxes to $100,000. Now you sell it for $400,000. Think you’ll roll over $200,000? Nope. The IRS says you have to drag the depreciation with you – only $300,000 total.e else, always working more but never getting paid more? Are you tired of never being able to show up for your child's school events, because

How To Reap The Rewards With Rewards Programs
Recently, many of these loyalty rewards programs have come to the realization that they must change how they put these programs together if they are going to increase their share of the market.One way that has changed over the years is how reward programs have started linking up with various partners to offer more types of rewards for it's members.Competition between programs is fierce and this is where you, the consumer, can win. Benefits are increasing at incredible rates to lure you into their programs and it has become even easier to qualify for and accrue points for travel.It used to be that only hotels and airlines offered these programs but now every kind of company and service is getting into the act.Yahoo.com has decided to make an exclusive partnership with the Intercontinental Hotel Group for priority club members to manage their accounts online.To earn more of your business and set themselves apart from ot

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Business Plan: The Simplest Business Plan Ever
If you’re a solo professional like I am, you know how tough it is to find any time at all to do any business planning. Doing a full business plan is a must if you’re planning to seek financing or investors, but most solo professionals don’t need anything that complicated.Don’t get me wrong, business planning is one of the most important things you need to do to succeed in your one man or woman show. Without planning you’ll drift aimlessly from one crisis to the next and one idea to the next, never really getting anything done.So, what’s a solo pro to do? Here’s what I do in my own business:My business plan consists of one page with very little on it. It simply lists the three goals that I must achieve this year. Then, I list a statement for each goal: To achieve Goal #1 I need to….This is followed by two to five activities or action items I need to do to make that happen.That’s it. That’s the whole plan. The beauty is the sim

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List Building - How to Use Articles to Fill Your List With Subscribers Who Trust You
One of the problems in list building is that when you run Adwords or advertise in an ezine, you get people on your list who are prone to click into things and sign up for things. They are not extremely interested in you or your product; they are on many lists anyhow, and you will just be one more email.That obviously does not do much for your subscriber responsiveness.But what I have found is that when I obtain subscribers via writing articles, it is like the ones that opt in generally want to be on my list. They read my emails. They send me questions. The buy my products.Why?I think that the key here is that when someone reads your article, and they like what they read, and they see your name attached to it, they begin to develop a bond with you.They already like you before they click on your link. Unlike an ezine ad or Adwords.They have already had a chance to see your style. If they don’t like it, they

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