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Work Is Just Great!
So, I just turned 60 years old. Yikes. I am supposed to be doing golf, and that cross-country trip, or taking my wife around the world, thinking about health issues. But — knock wood — I am so far in good health, so I can kind of do anything I want. I have been perplexed… Read more
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13 Marketing Tips For Successful Rainmaking (Part II)
To quell your marketing fears, here is the second half of my marketing tips for successful rainmaking. Follow-Up: If you don’t follow-up with the people you have met, then what was the point of “getting out and about” and being enthusiastic and talking about your Power Niche? You just wasted the chances you created. Your… Read more
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13 Marketing Tips For Successful Rainmaking (Part I)
It is Halloween time and there is certainly nothing scarier than worrying about how to be a successful rainmaker. So, in my next two articles — straddling Halloween — I will give you 13 tips to help you. I have written about a few of these before, but they are always worth repeating and remembering… Read more
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Opportunity Zones – Ignoring This Major Shift in the Real Estate World is a Big Mistake
I am writing to you about Opportunity Zones. Apologies if I am outspoken here, but there is a reasonable chance that this is the “biggest thing” to hit the real estate world in perhaps the past thirty or even more years. The Tax Reform Act of 2017 has made a mega-gift to the real estate… Read more
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Research Who You Are Meeting With Before You Meet
Whenever a law firm is contemplating hiring someone, it asks for a résumé and a cover letter. This is standard. This is because any law firm that is contemplating hiring anyone wants to know as much as possible about that person before the interview. At worst it saves time by potentially obviating the interview, and… Read more
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Anti-Fragility – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some of the greatest “thinkers” are often not afraid to get ideas from other people – and so it is for The Real Estate Philosopher. My thinking in this article comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his new book called Antifragile. I just finished his book and it is quite a read. He is so… Read more
Bruce Stachenfeld 