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Lesson Learned: My Secret to Debt Reduction

March 31, 2010 by Scott Costello 17 Comments
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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 [...]

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Lessons Learned: Presentation

March 19, 2010 by Scott Costello 11 Comments

Over the past several weeks I’ve been attempting to network with Realtors who have short sale listings so an investor I know can make offers on them.  I haven’t had any problems finding such Sales Agents, but I have been running into road blocks each and every time. It’s a numbers game right? From talking [...]

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Lessons Learned: Get More Out of your Day With Daily Deadlines

February 23, 2010 by Scott Costello 9 Comments

After last weeks lesson about doing The Wrong Kind of Busy I started really analyzing how I spend my weekday nights (my real estate investing time).  It was a very good exercise to try and identify what are the money making activities and which are not and cross those off my list.  Then I thought [...]

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Lessons Learned: The Wrong Kind of Busy

February 12, 2010 by Scott Costello 14 Comments

In last week’s Lessons Learned I talked about how important it is to stop hiding behind technology and actually use the phone to communicate with people.  For some using the phone is natural but for others like myself it is going to be a challenge because we have to overcome habit and fear. This past [...]

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Lessons Learned: What I did Wrong This Week

February 5, 2010 by Scott Costello 12 Comments
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One of the best ways to improve habits and continuing on a positive path is to look back and analyze your actions.  I’m going to start a new post series called Failure Friday Lessons Learned that I will attempt to identify something I did wrong or could have done better over the past week.  The [...]

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