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Probate Monday: Persistence

July 6, 2010 by Scott Costello 7 Comments

As a software developer for the past 9 years I’ve learned some valuable lessons about myself and what it takes to accomplish what I’ve set out to do.  Many times over the years I’ve had to figure out complicated programming tools, languages and specifications in order to achieve the final product.  For me a program [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Probate Investing Tagged With: Goals, mailers, Persistence, Probate Investing

Probate Monday (On Wednesday): More Letters Going Out

June 16, 2010 by Scott Costello 6 Comments

I pushed probate Monday off this week until Wednesday because I wanted to finish up and post the videos for my Lead Tracking program demonstration.  Last week was a pretty busy week, but I don’t really have anything to show for it.  Kinda frustrating to have your phone ring and come up with nothing. For [...]

Filed Under: All, Blog, Lead Tracker Tagged With: Give-up, letters, Probate Investing

Probate Monday: Decent response rate but frustrated

June 7, 2010 by Scott Costello 10 Comments
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Last week was a long week and unfortunately I didn’t get much real estate related stuff accomplished.  Memorial day weekend ended with my wife getting some severe side pain and going to the emergency room.  She could not get into a comfortable position.  Luckily they took her in quickly and after trying two separate pain [...]

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What Does That Word Mean: Testate

June 2, 2010 by Scott Costello 11 Comments

For people just getting into probate investing it is easy to get confused by all the legal terms such as probate, decedent, intestate, testate and executor just to name a few.  It took me a while to figure these out and when I did, it really helped me understand what I was dealing.  This series [...]

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Probate Monday: Lead Tracker

May 11, 2010 by Scott Costello 18 Comments
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As I mentioned last week in Solving One Problem at a Time, I am in the process of creating a program that will help me track my probate leads, mailings and contacts.  It’s going to be an interesting project to say the least.  A ton of ideas are popping into my head all the time [...]

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