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Lesson Learned: My Secret to Debt Reduction

March 31, 2010 by Scott Costello 17 Comments
LessonsLearned-Debt

Debt to me is the ultimate four letter word and I hate it with a passion.  I always used to admire the people who could purchase a car or even a house with all cash and then be done with it.  Growing up, my parents financed every car, mortgaged their house and never thought twice [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Lessons Learned Tagged With: car loans, credit card debt, debt reduction, saving in reverse

Probate Monday: How to Handle Missed Calls

March 29, 2010 by Scott Costello 12 Comments

It’s very frustrating for me to be at work and get a phone call from my probate marketing.  I can hear the money going down the drain.  There are a few ways I can counter act this such as getting an answering service from a company like Patlive.  This past mailing seemed worse then others [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Probate Investing Tagged With: answering services, google voice, patlive, real estate investing, ringcentral, seller calls

My Real Estate Quarter Year Progress Report

March 26, 2010 by Scott Costello 6 Comments
Mailer Stats 1

Probate Goals Back in January I posted about my one and only goal I’m focusing on this year, Getting my first probate deal.  If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that I did not succeed in accomplishing that goal which had a target date of March 1st.  This goal is still however at the [...]

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Update on My REI Scheduled Evenings

March 24, 2010 by Scott Costello 3 Comments
overload

A few weeks ago I came up with a schedule for myself to follow during the evenings.  It was a slotting system of  topics such as Probate Investing, Short Sales, Blog work, etc.  If you missed the post you can see it here Creating a Schedule is Not Easy. I’ve been working it for the [...]

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How to Rock Socks and Sell Stuff

March 23, 2010 by Scott Costello 4 Comments
MarenKate

In my recent post about the Top 12 Non-Real Estate Blogs, I mentioned a blog by Maren Kate called EscapingThe9to5.  I didn’t think it was enough to just mention her blog, I thought it would be great to invite her to our community as a guest poster..  She graciously accepted and after reading what she [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Guest Writers Tagged With: Branding, Maren Kate, Selling
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