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Our Divinity Now
Date: 05/04/2008 / Category: Inspirational
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Current Grade A-
Humanity grows more and more intelligent, yet there is clearly more trouble and less happiness daily.
How can this be so?
It is because intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
When a society misuses partial intelligence and ignores holistic wisdom, its people forget the benefits of a plain and natural life.
Seduced by their desires, emotions, and egos, they become slaves to bodily demands, to luxuries, to power and unbalanced religion and psychological excuses.
Then the reign of calamity and confusion begins.
Nonetheless, superior people can awaken during times of turmoil to lead others... continue reading >>
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Humanity grows more and more intelligent, yet there is clearly more trouble and less happiness daily.
How can this be so?
It is because intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
When a society misuses partial intelligence and ignores holistic wisdom, its people forget the benefits of a plain and natural life.
Seduced by their desires, emotions, and egos, they become slaves to bodily demands, to luxuries, to power and unbalanced religion and psychological excuses.
Then the reign of calamity and confusion begins.
Nonetheless, superior people can awaken during times of turmoil to lead others... continue reading >>
Driving for Dollars
Date: 05/03/2008 / Category: Rehabbing Fun
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Current Grade A+
This is an amusing little story on how to find $25,000 just driving a community!
Back a couple of years, my wife and I were driving a low end neighborhood in Orlando, FL near one of our rental properties, and we noticed an small abandoned house with no sign on it just a car jacked up in the carport.
We went online checked out the owners of record, looked up the phone number online again and gave them a call. Another call was made a week later. After a few calls, I figured that the house... continue reading >>
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This is an amusing little story on how to find $25,000 just driving a community!
Back a couple of years, my wife and I were driving a low end neighborhood in Orlando, FL near one of our rental properties, and we noticed an small abandoned house with no sign on it just a car jacked up in the carport.
We went online checked out the owners of record, looked up the phone number online again and gave them a call. Another call was made a week later. After a few calls, I figured that the house... continue reading >>
I Create Miracles
Date: 04/30/2008 / Category: Inspirational
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Current Grade A-
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Everyone needs to have a fun or interesting first real estate deal, and mine is magical. When I was 24 (in 1974) I had just started work as and electrician in the SF Bay Area, CA in the suburbs to the east. My wife and I were expecting a child in about 7 months and we were living in what I would call a "rat hole" of a rental. This hovel was a 2/1/1 whose only redeeming feature was that it backed up to open ranch land with great vistas and sunsets. As a matter of course I went to... continue reading >>
Multiple Purchase Cash Flow Machine
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A few years ago, I was surfing ebay and stumbled on a Tampa, FL realtor/broker that was connected with the VA auction system. At the time it was so simple, a single $500 deposit for any number of bids on properties all over the state of Florida, which took place every 2 weeks. Make a bid, if you win you get to choose if want to purchase, then get your financing together and purchase the property.
A big feature of this broker was that he included in the listing a very extensive and powerful... continue reading >>