Jon Zorrer’s Short Sales Uncensored (feat. Vena Jones-Cox)

July 2, 2010 by Scott Costello · View Comments 

For those that have been reading my blog since about the New Year, you’ve heard me talk about Jon Zorrer and how he has been helping me out and really keeping me on track.  Every two weeks I get to sit down with him at our Meetup group and pick his brain about anything and [...]

My Real Estate Quarter Year Progress Report

March 26, 2010 by Scott Costello · View Comments 

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 [...]

Update on My REI Scheduled Evenings

March 24, 2010 by Scott Costello · View Comments 

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 [...]

Lessons Learned: The Wrong Kind of Busy

February 12, 2010 by Scott Costello · View 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 [...]

Short Sale Commissions

January 13, 2010 by Scott Costello · View 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 [...]