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January 13, 2010 by Scott Costello 8 Comments

I was talking with Nick Johnson last night about a comment I made in a previous post about giving my short sale leads away to someone else for a referral fee.  Since my focus is not short sales, and to be honest I want nothing to do with them I was more then willing to [...]

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Countered!

June 30, 2009 by Scott Costello 10 Comments
68 Mt Pleasant c

I got a call from Mike the Realtor yesterday and he said the owners countered my offer.  This shocked me as I figured I’d get laughed at and I would move on.  They came down 15k to 320k.  Not a huge amount but it was note worthy.  I told my realtor to offer my max [...]

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Where is that Realtor?

June 25, 2009 by Scott Costello 4 Comments
68 Mt Pleasant b

Well I sent off an email to my Realtor(s) (Mike and Sandy) that I wanted to make an offer of 160k for 68 Mt Pleasant Ave.  After I sent the email I remembered that Mike and Sandy are on vacation.  They said they would be checking their emails though, so we’ll see what happens now.  [...]

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First Offer House Pictures

June 23, 2009 by Scott Costello 4 Comments

I went and looked at that house last Thursday and met with the Realtor, Mike.  He was a really nice guy and it turns out he had done a some investing when he lived down in Florida about 7 years ago.  Sounds like he was down there during the boom.  He works with a lot [...]

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I will succeed today….

June 17, 2009 by Scott Costello 4 Comments
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This week is going kinda slow and my real estate activity is a bit down as well.   Tomorrow I will be headed over to the Mt. Pleasant house to meet my realtor and take a look at the place.   I’m going to use the check list from Wholesaling for quick cash to mark off things [...]

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