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2017
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My Opinion - and that is what we all have; we all look at the world from our own point of view.Before the crash I wrote an $8,500,000 cash out refinance loan. The CPA who helped his clients had 'bird dogs' out to every bank within 50 miles to find the best loan for this client. I did the loan.tim...
04/26/2017
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I read this last night and it really made an impact on me. The statement comes from The Christopher Parkening Guitar Method, Vol 2. "I suggest that you pursue a commitment to personal excellence rather than success, based on your own God-given potential. Success and excellence are often competin...
04/21/2017
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Loans...Loans...Loans...it is math, rules, and solving the puzzle.Customer wants to purchase in the Central Valley in California. GSE (conventional) loan limits are $424,100 and the FHA limit is $362,500. Customer is set on a purchase in the $420,000 range but this is where I need to educate him...
04/14/2017
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My guess is the Title got your attention. The title should be "My experience working with females.Here are some examples of where a female employee bailed me out or taught me somethings.1. I worked for a division of a national bank and in our branch our only job was to write second mortgages. Thi...
04/11/2017
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Doing "clean up" work on all my marketing outlets and just ran across this video. I use this disc and sometimes a larger disc for the bigger crowds and the reaction is always one of "Wow". Stare right in the middle of the disc and see what happens. Of course in person this is a great effect - not...
04/08/2017
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I am working with a Protege who is doing fantastic and is off to a quick start. I asked her what her job is for today and she gave me a list of things she has to do for this listing and that listing, this offer, this loan that is working. She has a lot of clerical required things to do but I aske...
04/06/2017
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A long time ago I read a book called 30 Days to Superstar Success by Terry Eilers.Terry talked about his first 30 days in real estate sales and here are some comments about his first prospecting efforts. He commented that Prospecting is Most Important and says that in his first 30 days he did th...
04/05/2017
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My guess is that most of us have some type of pet peeves - Here are my real estate agent Pet Peeves. 1. Realtors ( I am going to use the Realtor term even thought I know every real estate agent is not a Realtor) who take a listing but do not return phone calls or email messages.2. Realtors not ge...
04/03/2017
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