Jose, a taxi cab driver earning under $20,000 a year, took up the part-time activity of Finding. Jose’s hobby was studying and collecting Native American arts and crafts, so he decided this might be a logical place to start his Finder work. Jose bought or borrowed every book and every magazine he could find on […]
by J.F. (Jim) Straw When most small manufacturing businesses start-up, they concentrate their sales efforts on the known markets here in the United States. Defining their markets as the known users of their products; known distributors of those products; and known (or accessible) sales areas within the U.S., overlooking the larger — more profitable — […]
The biggest challenge for real estate BWBs (Beginning Wealth Builders) is the down payment needed for their first property. So if a BWB starts with a low-cost property (say $50,000–not $5-million), it’s much easier to borrow the down payment. For instance, if you need 10% down, that’s $5,000 for the $50,000 property, but $500,000 for […]
A REIT–REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST — can be your source of money for real estate to: REITs OF ALL TYPES ARE HIGHLY POPULAR TODAY. People feel safer with REITs than they do with the stock market. Why? Because the value — namely the real estate — is always there! It doesn’t go away, like a company […]
I see hundreds of people each year who’ve raised themselves from low incomes to high incomes through using my success methods. And I’ve never met one person yet who said he was sorry that he went after the big money. All have said that they thought the results were worth the effort. And if they had the chance to do it all over again, they would.
Mort Weisinger started to write an article on items that can be obtained free of charge by the public. He planned to title the article “Land of the Free.” As he collected information for his article he began to see that he’d never have enough space to cover the hundreds of free and useful items. […]
by J.F. (Jim) Straw, author of Mustard Seeds, Shovels, & Mountains Believe it or don’t, I just flunked another test for “entrepreneurial” traits! From my test score, it appears I am probably better adapted to washing dishes than running a business. Then again, according to the governing laws of aerodynamics, bumble bees can’t fly either. Let me […]
So you have a good idea. Maybe it’s even a great idea. Now what? In my experience, the chances are likely that one of three things will happen. Your idea may be good. It may even be great. But without action on that idea or access to people who can make that idea happen, your idea is worthless. […]
To get your day off to a good start, I have to tell you a short story. A few weeks ago a reader wrote an email telling me how sad he was over not having any of his deals click. He was really “down in the mouth.” To cheer him up I called him and […]
MANY BWBS SEEK TO BORROW MORE MONEY THAN THEY NEED to take over, start, or buy real-estate ventures which interest them. Let’s see how you can do exactly this for a condo (condominium) you want to speculate on. Here’s what you do: Here’s what can happen to typical condo prices: Price at Start of Construction […]