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It is only natural for property owners to fall in love with their homes over the years as they live safely and happily with their families. As they rack up fond memories their home becomes more and more valuable to them. This is great, at least until it is time to sell their house. They let these feelings influence the price they think they should get for their home.

This is a challenge for retail real estate agents who want to list their house at a price that will sell quickly based on comparable sales. The homeowner will feel that their home is superior to the comparables because love is blind, and theirs is worth more.
This is problematic and will cause a delay in getting the property sold.

Wow, it's been so long since I posted that I almost forgot how.
I could give you all a whole bunch of excuses why I haven't posted but the truth is, I'm still not 100% from my bronchitis episode so I have a tremendous lack of energy. As I sit here typing this, I am still hacking away so I've been avoiding taking phone calls or skyping anyone (Mark K ) It sucks to be old and sick. I'd prefer to just be one, either one!
Ok, enough crying!

Here's what little I have been doing:
I have been checking this site daily.
I contacted another DGer about FL property.
I forwarded an opportunity to a fellow DGer (just today) to give her either a great opportunity or a chance to get some real world practice doing a deal.

I just want to say that Dean...You are the bomb. I applied everything in your books and just as you said they work, not that I doubted that it wouldn't. I just wanted to share with the rest of the investors on the site who may think it doesn't work. Well fear can dog our every way and we just have to have faith in a higher power and then ourselves. After reading your books this is now a full time job..it feels so good knowing that I can roll out of bed and begin working.

Colonel Sanders went to more than 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found an interested buyer. The fact that we can buy Kentucky Fried Chicken today attests to his perseverance. Thomas Edison tried almost 10,000 times before he succeeded in creating the electric light. If he had given up, you would be reading this in the dark!

The original business plan for what was to become Federal Express was given a failing grade on Fred Smith¹s college exam. And, in the early days, their employees would cash their paychecks at retail stores, rather than banks. This meant it would take longer for the money to clear, thereby giving Fed Ex more time to cover their payroll.

Who says that the real estate market is down. My venture into the duplex fell through due to rent control and current tenants did not cover the mortgage, ROI way too low.

Since last year, I have been trying to get into another place but no luck. The cash investors are buying up the properties in my area, rehabbing and "trying" to resale tremendously over market.

So I need cash, the assignment deals are not working for me, I can't seem to assemble a good team, these agents don't want to bother unless they can come out ahead on commissions.

They say you have to set goals. Well this is one of mines to blog make me hold myself accountable. putting it out there and reading it daily. I can successed taking one step at a time but always pushing forward. I saying this every morning when I get up. go me