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Lessons Learned: Bye Bye Broker

April 30, 2010 by Scott Costello 5 Comments

Last summer, after being tired of trying to find a Real Estate Agent to work with,  I decided to just get my own license.  Which I accomplished by September and then signed on with a very small broker.  For those not aware, in order to do anything as a RE Agent you have to hang [...]

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Mexican Riviera Cruise

April 28, 2010 by Scott Costello Leave a Comment
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Have you ever been on a cruise before?  If not it’s something everyone should experience at least once.    This was my 4th cruise overall and the 3rd with my wife in the 6 years we’ve been together.  We enjoy them because there is always something to do, but you can do nothing at all and [...]

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Probate Monday: Are they ready to sell yet?

April 26, 2010 by Scott Costello 3 Comments

Remember all that momentum that I had going before vacation?  It’s G.O.N.E.!   I thought I was doing pretty good when I got back but it all slowly ground to a halt.  The 12 days off or so really got me back into the lazy, TV watching mode which I’m going to strive to break again.  [...]

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Book Review: Switch, How to Change Things When Change is Hard

April 22, 2010 by Scott Costello 3 Comments
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I’m off to a great start this year with my goal of reading one book per month.  I’ve actually just finished reading my 5th book so I am one ahead of the game.  It has been much easier then I could have expected, as I’m really enjoying shutting off the TV and popping open a [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Books, Goals Tagged With: Change, Chip Heath, Dan Heath, Elephant, Goals, Rider, Switch

Flip This Success Story – Probate

April 22, 2010 by Scott Costello Leave a Comment
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If you don’t follow Steph Davis’ blog, FlipThisWholesaler.net, she does success story interviews every so often and her current episode is about Greg Ward.  Greg’s first successful wholesaling deal just happened to be from a Probate property! This really interested me of course so I wanted to share This is a good story, so have [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Probate Investing Tagged With: Probate, Steph Davis, Success Story
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