Happy Holidays Everyone!

Hey Everyone! I hope everyone is finding this season full of peace and tranquility! ~ Okay.. maybe if you live in a perfect world! LOL It seems that this time of the year brings out the best ~~~~ and worst in people.

I'm doing well, everything is going great at work I just got out of a 4hr Brain surgery on a Rat. I've never been exposed to neuropathology until now but it's pretty cool. So in case you're wondering what I did it's fairly complex but in lay terms: I injected a virus into a portion of the brain that is responsible for memory (the hippocampus) this virus knocks out the protein receptors in that portion of the brain so theoretically the rat will have memory problems. THEN after the rat recovers, I'm going to inject it with synthesized drugs we're creating and expose the rat to behavior studies to see how the drugs are effecting it. Hopefully, we'll see a increase in performance against controls, and other rats that are not getting the same drug. This will lead to us being able to move on in understanding and creating drug treatments with people with aging disease such as alzheimers and early onset dementia ( like in pro football players)

On another note, me and my GF recently got into mountain biking! We've always wanted to get into this but never had the time.. well I figure if we went out and got some nice bikes then we'll have to force ourselves to go. So we've been enjoying riding just about every weekend.

On to business..

Okay, so you know I got into mountain biking, I did a little research and and found there is a huge niche. I've found some good accessory items that are very promising. I've already got the website , logo OScommerce setup (Thanks to odesk.com) so now I'm just waiting on a few logisticla things. The site is www.rdsgear.com (Just black page with logo now.)

I have so much going on, I'm not totally sure when I will launch this I think around the beginning of 2010. I have 6 applications to grad schools about to be going out and that has been taking up my time..not to mention everything else.. so we'll see, I don't have a solid date, only a projected date but hopefully I can make things happen, I know the market is there, I have the supplier info and everything else, I just need the time to have a successful launch.

Shae! We were supposed to chat this week, things got a little hectic for me however early next week or anytime next week lets catch up

I hope everyone else is doing well!

Den

December 19th

Is my official date for the GRE! I've been studying rigorously. I was supposed to take it Nov 24th however a lot of things came up IE WORK lol so I had to push it back. I'm on a pretty solid schedule now so I'm able to have a good balance of study and work in.

Shae Bynes is my new best friend in FL! We finally got to chit chat and she's a great person.. I'm just mad when she said she like TSU better then A&T! (j/k)

I've been enjoying my Job, a lot of people ask me how I like working, I think they are looking for me to say.. it sucks.. but honestly, I've gotten used to the motion of waking up at 7 and getting to work by 9. I work in Acedemia so it's pretty laid back. Plus my job is great, I work on animals and with animals. I'm working on a project now that is in the middle phases of developing a new drug for alzheimers.. so that's cool.

That being said, I'm looking FWD to Tuesday because it's my last day off prior to the holiday! 5 day weekend sounds great to me!

Black friday anyone??

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1619285


Dennis

I'm still around!

Okay, so much has happened this last month. I visited Carolina mid September as you know I'm interested in getting my Masters in Health Administration. And they told me that based on my GPA and what not, if I score within the 50th percentile on the GRE I'll be golden. I should be able to do that. So hopefully next fall, I'll be at Carolina.


I ALSO recently got a J-O-B!! I work at Wake forest as a Principal Research Investigator in the Internal Medicine Department , I'm going to be conducting studies on lab rats and mice looking for causes if hippocampus degradation that leads to Aging diseases such as Alzheimer's and Dementia. I'm setting up some pretty cool cognitive behavioral experiments, some really neat stuff..I'll also be conducting brain surgeries to knock out various receptors in young rats which may simulate the same aging defects that older rats go through that show signs of aging diseases..I'm looking forward to that also...My nerdy side just came out :( Anyway, It's a very very lucrative position which is 40hours a week. I really can't complain at all...But the way I look at it, it's just another stream of income..

My First "OFFICIAL" Job Badge.. my picture sucks in it.. but i don't really care lol


September 16th I launched a ebay video course, it has over 2hours worth of video tutorial explaining how exactly i make money on ebay... www . auction cash cowboy.com (i use my pen name william leides) which is performing very well. (over $2k in sales since launch)
It's funny how you can see the "DIPS" over the weekend.. i guess people really don't buy stuff on the weekends! lol My ebay sales charts are similar



I also have a "Internet Marketing Video Course" out there at www. tai zejan. com which has slowed down a little just because I have been spending less tim marketing it, however, i launched this in july and have a little more then 150 members who paid atleast $12.97 or above... I'm in talks of selling this site with the video's sales page, everything to another marketer in the near future.

I'm still making money on ebay!!

I have 7 advertising Contracts that I don't spend much time on (no need to), but it pays me about a grand a month in fess and what not. I would like to get more, but i got so much going on there i just no time now.

AND GUESS WHAT

I may be buying my first house around the first of the year! (or atleast within 6months..i need time to look and analyze and do all the fund stuff) I am going to start looking through the MLS on what things are going for, I'm positive I can get a good house in my area now and put a little work in it then flip. I'm not going to be relying on other peoples financing anymore.. i'm just going to use my own lol but I would like to flip maybe 1 or 2 houses next year.. so yes.. in case anyone was wondering REI is deffinately in the wood works!

Well, I hope everyone is doing well! Steph, I just noticed your product launch! Congrats!! I hope it's been doing well! I hope you're building a list! If any of my readers (what's left of them) would like a copy of my ebay video course or my internet marketing course just email me @ ncataggie @ gmail.. i'll get you a copy to check out.

Talk to you soon!

Dennis

Cold calling is so much fun!

NOT! OMG , I don't know how telemarketers do it.. I can't take it much longer. I have about 20 more numbers, which isnt really a lot but gee whiz.. it's tough. I said I would stick to other marketing methods,but I wanted to keep my pipes full from all sorts of marketing.

I've contacted a few hundred people over the last 3 days via cold calls and I have 2 appointments, that's not really good numbers. I'm probably wasting my time cold calling, but I'll find out sooner or later.

I'm going to be meeting with my REI friends next week, hopefully they got some good news :)
now they are doing credit repair, they are doing well with that, so i'm not sure if they are even thinking about REI right now? we'll find out though.

Anyway, time to cook!

Den

2 More Contracts

Well, I've been focusing hard one two things. 1) Preparing for the GRE.. yes more school :( and 2) Continuing my marketing biz. I was able to pick up 2 contracts today. The first contract was from a biz owner who owns a mom and pop pizza shop, I'll be getting him setup with a basic 5 pager with a autoresponder and show him how ot maximize it to start making money soon. I had him so amped up about it that while I was in the office, he called one of his friends who just started a clothing store and told her that she needed my services (so he basically sold her for me) I wasnt expecting that, but I went over to her place right after meeting with him, she could afford to put down a huge chunk of change but we have her setup on a subscription service, so instead of paying $1500 down / $100 month , she's paying $250/month minimum 1 year. So that way over the course of a year, she will have covered the total cost of 1500down + 100 month.

Anyway, this was a pretty good day, got me amped up to get out there and hit it hard. So far I have $750 residual monthly income from my marketing company, I hope to get it to the $10,000 range within a few years if I stick with this.

Anyway, thanks for the kind words in regarding to my last post! Everything is ironing itself out!

Dennis

So how do you lose $10,000+ in 2 days?

Well... you crash 2 airplanes, that's how.

Rewind...

a few weeks ago we found out my dad had to get another surgery on his legs this time, last year he had sextuplet bypass surgery on his heart.. he's had surgeries on his legs before to clear up the veins and artery.. however now the femoral artery is pretty clogged and that needs to be cleaned. So this has been playing a burden on me.

Over the last 2 years my Mom's voice has increasingly gotten worse and worse and worse, to the point of it now being a whisper. The Dr's said shes horsed, they said she may have a bacterial infection, they said it could be a stomach thing.. over the past year she's been back and forth, well this week she was diagnosed with Spasmodic dysphonia which basically is a Neurological issue causing her brain to mess with her vocal chords. I miss hearing my mom's voice.. it sucks not being able to hear it. Well, there is no cure for this issue, however there is a treatment. They inject botox into the muscles of the vocal chords to "block out" the signal from the brain. After the treatments her voice will be back to 100% the only downside of this is, itls only temporary, she sould have to get treated every 3 months, once the botox runs out she will lose her voice again.

a Month ago, one of ym close lady friends found a lump on her breast, she was due to start veterinary school aug 9th, but she deferred just incase because she didnt want to be out of school for a while, in professional school you miss a day and your 2 weeks behind. Well, the test results came back - breast cancer :( I couldnt believe it.. someone who is younger then me! It was a scary time, shes giong to be starting chemo in september, she's been strong about it, but broke down a few times on the phone.. udnerstandably .. She caught it early on though, so they are pretty optimistic about it, which is a good thing.


I'm pretty big into RC planes, I have a number of planes that I just enjoy to fly. And after school let out, I literally went on a splurge and purchased 1 big plane that cost be about 3 gran, after I got that one I saw another one I wanted which was about 7.. Well over thepast 2 weeks, I've been a little stressed, and flying has been a pretty good stress reliever... well.. needsless to say I went down spectacularly..both planes.. gone. yesturday, the first of the "big planes" went down... I wwas flying it very hard and fast. I would come in from a dive (110mph) then pull up hard, putting a lot of g forces on the wing.. well, I pulled 1 2 many G's as I was pulling off the wings literally snapped off, they couldnt handle the pressue.. today I had a strange technical issue that cause my other plane to go down , fortunatly it missed a lake by about 50 feet.. so I'm able to salvage about $2000 worth of electronics and the engine.

That being said.. i'm just sooooo stressed and feeling some what bummed...i mean i know what I was getting into and I knew the risks..

I'm going to put the planes down for a little while, I'm not going to mess with them for 2-3 weeks as I just need to collect myself. Lately I've been really irritable and moody which really isnt me. Sometimes I just don't want to be bothered with anthing or anyone.. imagine someone poking you none stop.. after about 5 minutes you would get tired of it.. well that's how i've been feeling all day.. not the physical poking sensation.. but the frustration and iritation.. i struggle NOT to just flip out on someone, that's probably why i've been flying my planes so much.. cause it's just me and my planes.

wellllllllllll sorry for the debbie downer post! LOL I'll be back in a few weeks, back to my cheerful self (Except when it comes to REI!! haha)

Dennis

PS: Apple Cidar Vinegar is what i'm going to drink over the next few weeks.. it's supposed to lift and stablize your mood (or so they say, I'm going to give it a shot, literally)

Interesting Findings

I find that when I pitch potential clients "Save money on your current advertising" vs "Do you need a website" I get a much better response. I guess they already get a ton of website offers, but when they hear, would you like to save money while increasing revenue.

So far I have 3 clients lined up on $1500 plus $200 monthly. I have a potential 4th coming up but it's a hard 4th.

One other observation I find interesting.. is small business owners initially have a brick wall up, i guess they get pitched a bunch of products or services all the time.. but once you build a little repor they are very open and very cool to talk to, a lot of them have owned several different businesses and have a lot of insight on things.

untill next time!

D-NYCE!

Chamber of Commerce

I'm going to be heading to the chamber of commerce today, or tomorrow to see if I can setup some sort of small "free seminar" to local biz owners. My plan is to share with them how they can "Get online" and if they are online, to turn their website into a money generating machine for them vs just some shell billboard that's not doing much...then off them a consulting service (price point not set yet) then once I meet with them, offer them a unique blueprint solution for their company. So far I've received 3 calls biz related, but no appointments. Hoping something happens soon.

On another note, I was just charged 5 x for $498.37 on my debit card for some random websites.. i called Bank of America and the immediately said "We notice unusual activity" , i'm thinking they couldn't stop it while it was happening? Hell.. they stopped me from buying a TV a few months ago because they didn't think it was me.. anyway, they said the charged need to be "cleared" before they can fix it right now they are pending.. what a hassle..

Pz Out!

Got my first phone call!!

My biz line rang this morning early on, I was so excited like whoohooo, i missed the call though as I was still sleeping, anying the person left a message and it was awesome, they told me that I could be making 50,000 a month!All I had to do was call them back ~ Only if I was serious about making SERIOUS MONEY though :( ...Thanks Craigslist :-/

However, I am going to TRY* To make another 50-100 calls today..gosh cold calling businesses is a daunting task, but i'll get it done.. i think I'm giong to rely mostly on flyers and other marketing methods to get people to call ME back.

I should be getting some sort of calls from my alst mailings over the next few days though!

100 Cold Calls and 100 Flyer Sent.

Well, I'm starting things small. I want to work up to sending about 1000 flyers out advertising my webdev company, however I don't have a a system in place to handle it if I receive a bunch of calls.. so I'm building up slowly but surely.

Out of the 100 cold calls, I didnt get much GOOD responses, I did however manage to land to appointments next week, which I'm looking forward to. The mailers went out friday.. so I won't get any calls if any, until next week. 100 really isnt enough but I'm hopeing I get 1 or 2 appointments.

I know that if I meet with the owner I can close them... the product really sells itself if they truly want to increase their revenue.

I have a number of people that I will outsource the work to, so once I start getting in clients, I will be able to plug them in, so to say.. we will see how it goes!

Hope everyone enjoys their fourth of july.

Oh Ya. I'm taking a break from ebay :) I'm not going to work the eby biz all July.. I did pretty well the last few months, so I'm just gonig to take a lil vacation.

Hope this weeks goes well!

Hey everyone, after a few emails I thought it would be bessed to post a blog entry.

Well, I will just get str8 to the point. I don't want to let anyone down that's one reason why I havent really posted anything lately. However, some things have changed recently for me.

My local real estate market has been struggling a little, I have tried to put in a lot of leg work sincemy last blog entry in finding other good buyers, but I kept hitting a wall in which it didnt seem I could overcome. I am going to be on a "real estate biz sabbatical" for the next few months until things change a little.

That being said, I've since started another company.. yes another. This is a marketing company in which I'm able to help local biz owners decrease their marketing exepenses while increasing their profits. One thing I have gotten really good at over the pastyear is internet marketing. I find it enjoyable, and challenfing.

I was going to start up another blog that is my "accountability partner" for that business, mainly because I didnt want people to think I'm just giving up on RE, nor let some of my followers down that were reallypushing for me. However, my blog is about the road to freedom..

So I may change the tone of this blog from Real Estate to ,y new biz venture.. believe it or not, i do a lot of the same "logistial things" that i went through for my RE biz.. IE offline marketing, finding clients, marketing my services, presentations etc etc.

Just a heads up for anyone reading.

Thanks and talk to you all soon, i look forward to me starting to blog again!

Free as last, free at last... THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I'M FREE ATLAST!!!

Graduated Magna Cum Laude 3.47 GPA
Major: Laboratory Animal Sci. Concentration in Biology and Chemistry.
Honors and Awards:
- Golden Key National Honour Society.
- Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society
- Beta Kappa Chi National Science Honor Society.
- Gamma Sigma Delta National Agricultural Honor Society
- Alpha Lambda Delta - Freshman Honor society (for having above a 3.5 freshman year)
- Alpha Phi Omega - National Service Fraternity
- Deans list every semester (8).

I'm so happy I'm done with this.

What next? Well take a break for 6 months, I'm going to work on my biz stuff.

January, I'm going to start a masters program to get my Masters in Public Health. I really want to be a High ranking executive in a Medical Facility.

I walked REALLY slow across the stage and Waived to everyone like I was a superstar haha, I savored the moment!


This is me and My Favorite Professor!



Me and my Incredible boo!

Friday's meeting

I was scheduled to meet at the Office at 10:00, got there 5 mins early, as usual so i can get some cookies and juice lol..no really..;) open up the door and only one person was there. (there are usually 3) The guy that was there is a broker. One of the other girls, i guess left because "there was no work" , and the guy that was there said things are just going slow lol, like no shit.. you don't buy any hosues this is what happens. My buyer wasnt even there! I asked where he was, he said he stepped out for a minute.. but I left after waiting for 20 mins. (You want to know how to REALLY annoy the crap out of me, on the verge of pissing me off.. it's me waiting for you at a time you scheduled.. i can see 5-10 mins.. but anything more is just stupid..ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN'T TEXT ME TO TELL ME YOU WONT BE THERE!) lol.. ::rant-OFF:: ) The buyer is cool, but when it comes to stuff like this he's annoying. He won't call me EVER if he has to cancel.. he doesnt respond to emails or texts..he says they take up too much time (i know what you're thinking, he's prolly old.. NO.. he's 25!), so basically i'll just wait to pop up at the office some time this week.

I might employ some "creative and strategic buyer aquisition strategies" (sounds good right?) to get some more buyers.. Steph is off the hook cause at any given point she'll have 1 seemingly endless list of ACTIVE buyers..something i need to work on. I know what I gotta do, it's just lately (the past 2 months or so) i've been so unmotivated to get this REI stuff done.. time to suck it up and do something about it.

Went down to charlotte yesturday, it was SOO nice out, I just wanted to go cruise around, so we drove to charlotte, visited a few malls then drove home and i finally saw slumdog millionaire for the FIRST time! GREAT FREEKING MOVIE! wow..

My apartment is looking like a mess, i need to figure something out, i'm usually a pretty organized person, but lately it looks more like a warehouse then anything else. I had a lil get together on friday and I found myself just throwing crap in various closets to hide my "other life " lol (not to many people know i retail on ebay..people usually take it as a joke so I just never bring it up) I need either a bigger apartment, or figure out some sort of organizational system that keeps things more organized.

Well, that's about it for now!

Oh yea. Does anyone reading this (all 4 of you lol) have any expirience with the millitary ~~Navy? The navy has made a crazy offer to be a healthcare administrator (like a CEO of a health facility) after I get my MBA or MPH (masters in public health) ..and they will Pay for it ($60k value) .. the only thing is I would have to give back 3 years, to the Navy.. but the pay..is gooood. I'm just not sure..i hope someone can help me out here. Oh yea, and they will pay me as a "O1" while im in school..

Okay.. time to do laundry :(

i'm finding my self wanting to keep rambling.. because I know as soon as I close my screen i gotta do laundry, lol, so sorry if I'm just going on and on about nothing.. hmm what else can I think to talk about? Oh yea, my GF and I celebrated 3 years on friday :) Can't believe it's been so long sheesh! okay i gotta go, it sucks when you put off doing laundry for weeks! literally now i got SO MUCH TO DO! maybe i should invite steph (my GF) over for some wine, cheese and laundry folding later lol

Ahh, 3 more weeks!

Until I graduate!! I CAN'T WAIT!

I know I have not posted in a looonnnngg time.. it seems I always say that, but this has been the longest time since starting this blog that I have not posted.

One of the main reasons is because i'm about to graduate, and there has been exam after exam after exam it seems, i havent even had time to watch TV.. not that i'm missing anything I suppose.

Secondly, I havent really had anthing new and refreshing to post in regards to RE. This friday my origional buyer who bought everything wants me to come in, as he has something to tell me.. I REALLY hope it's good news :)

ebay is going great, still makeing money that route lol. I'm not making as much as I thoguht I would initially.. but i'm making pretty darn close to it, so i'm not really complainging.

hmm what else.. oh yea, MY DAD GOT FACEBOOK! ~ weird right? lol.. now I need to monitor the crazy pictures that my friends put up of me.

Well, i'm going to be sure to post some more later.. not much new and exciting going on, but hopefully friday will turn into a "DENNIS WE GOT FINANCING GO GET ME DEALS!" type of conversation lol

Talk to you soon!

D

Mexico , frustration , and $$$

Hey Everyone, it's been a lil bit since I've posted last. First week of march I was in Mexico (cruise to Cozumel) on my spring break with some friends, had a great time.. although it was some retarded cold front so it was pretty chilly, like 50deg, we went to keywest and everyone was like "This is the coldest it's been in 50 years" lol, kinda sucked for us, but we still made the best of it and had a great time.. i'll put up some pics. Oh yea,, i also learned that Happy hour in at south beach is not so happy.. I bought 4 drinks and it came upto $120 bucks! WTF! would I do a cruise again? Hmm maybe like an alaskan cruise, or world cruise or something, but not a cruise carribean. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but when we go on vacations me and my gf like to explore.. on the cruise we only had like 3 hours in KY and 8 hours in mexico.. and the rest of the time it was like staying in a hotel for 4 days without going anywhere. plus it was cold, so i personally didnt get in the pool or lay out.. but some crazies were. it was cool there, we had a bunch of friends with is

Well, the RE market in my area is about shitty right now, i've been hunting for cash buyers for some time, i put out home made signs on plastic (similar to tampastephs) ,i got some calls.. but most of the calls are from people who want to buy a house, or investors wondering if i had access to money ?? lol I managed to dump the house i had under contract to a local guy, who didn't want the house but wanted to help me out so that was nice of him, i made a whopping $500 on the deal, but time was running out, i had to get rid of it.

--warning, if you don't like to read depressing posts school past this paragraph--

I'm just really growing in frustration, i had huge plans at the beginning of the year, but now that financing has basically dried up, i don't know what to do. I honestly don't know. I can find the deals, that's not the problem, but i can't find buyers with money! Greensboro, NC is not really a hot spot for RE. There are not many people running to greensboro with a ton of cash to invest. I went to the REIA meeting last week, and the guy who i knew was buying everything.. isnt buying anything anymore.. He's one of the first guys a met in greensboro who was really out there buying up a lot of rentals and all that. He said he's just going to slow down for a little while...whatever that means. Ugh, just at a loss.. well, i hope something changes for us all soon
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Okay, ebay:
I'm really glad I have multiple streams of income. Right now, i have my first item closing that I have been working for the last 4 months on. I don't even have them on hand yet, but will have them on hand tomorrow. Basically, i was able to get manufactured this item that is selling today for $.80 cents!! You know what the current bid is?? $101!! I was thinking it would go up to $40-$50 but 101! Wow. This new venture has nearly cost me 10grand for the whole development process, but in about a month or 2 i'll make that back and everything will be gravy .. but now it's about to be gravy. I have some items that I know will sell for $300 that cost me about $5 to make. After it's all said an done, i've calculated (conservatively) I should be able to profit about $8000-$10,000) per month on these, this is on top of my current $3000-$4000 profit on my "old school" ebay biz. This is like 1 good real estate deal, but you know what lol $$$ is $$$


The Job situation:
Last week, I called and denied the offer. :) Reason being, I can get paid much more then 77k if I get an industry job not related with the government. 2) i like working for myself..so this is my plan. After I graduate, I'm going to take a year break from school (i've been in higher ed since 2001) I'm going to work on my business's and really hit it hard.. if a year goes by and i'm broke then I'll get in the job market, heck my Environmental Analytical Chemist license lasts for 3 years so finding a job a year from now shouldn't be hard. So thats what my plan is..

Oh yeah,
i'll upload a few pics (read the captions :)

Den

PS: before i finished uploading the pics , i checked out the auction and it's upto $127 with 2 hours left..i'm simply amazed


This is what it looked like in greensboro NC when we left. All seeason, we asked for snow.. well we finally got it at the worst time... to make a LOOONG story short it took as 6hours to get to the airport which is 45mins away.



this was during the "captains ball"




my and my good mate greg


This is the REAL spong BOB..found him in key west


This was the bar in cozumel where we spent a conciderable amount of time at.. :)



we don't have one of these where i'm from



ignore steph's hair..she been swimmin all day lol


My friend, who we now call scube steve haha


our boat is on the right.. i never knew how big these things were


i have never seen manicans with breast implants lol, only at south beach i guess??



some friends we met, they were on rollar blades , they showed us all the hot spots


i was mad that my GF's drink was bigger then mine haha yes.. these were the $30 drinks (i guess i should have listened to my inner self "Den, there are no prices on the drinks.. they will cost you a pretty penny" lol


These are some of the friends we went with. See the white guy with the sport coat on? I beat him in the ping pong competition :) he was pretty good to i knew he was gonna beat me, but i was more consistent then him, but his slams were crazy i couldnt keep up lol, so really he beat himself but hey, his loss :)

Job Offers and Crazy Deals :-x

Alright, i've been so busy on the road back and forth lately. Well, to make a long story short, I applied to a job with the EPA as a Analytical Chemist back in December, last week I went out to the EPA for my last interview.. and today I got the phone call.. I got the job :) $77k , full benefits all that good stuff, the position is upto 115k so it's pretty on paper.. the only bad thing is, i'm SCARED, i don't want to settle for mediocrity.. 77k is okay, but i want more then that.. i'm worried that i will end up and settle for the 9-5grind.. I know I can make more then 77k between my companies if i just hussle fulltime (once i graduate) so i'm at a cross roads..

gotta figure some things out..

REI Deal goin crazy.

Well.. I got This house under contract.. remember the buyer who wants to buy a ton of houses? I tested him out.. and he backed out..said he didnt want the house.. the crazy thing is this is a CRAZY deal like, if i had the cash i would buy it type of deal.. and i called my number one buyer to see where he's at.. if you remember he's having some financing issues.. and guess what.. he still is having finance issues.

So, I have 30 days to find a buyer, well now its like 25..so i hope i do, otherwise i may just finance it myself..if i can LOL!

anyway, my thoughts are kinda scattered now, sorry for the incoherent post. Thanks everyone for wishing me well.. Steph, the soup helped ;) I got better AFTER i gave it to my girlfriend and my mom :( oops!

anyway, got school work to do, LATA!

Dennis

Totally Sick man :(

Last weekend I started to work out (spring break coming up soon) , and you know how after you work out hard you feel kinda sore? Well Monday I was feeling it.. but Monday night the soreness was turning into full blown achiness and a headache.. I went to bed early in an attempt to sleep it off.. well Tuesday morning, I could barely move.. i was so stiff, cold sweating just really bad.. so I called my GF after laying there helpless for hours to have her take me to the Dr.. I went to the dr and they did a throat swab on me (that crap made me puke) and nose swab.. but it all came up okay. I didn't have TOO much congestion, just a little because my sinuses are going crazy now..anyway after about 3 hours at the Dr office they told me i had some crazy virus infection. The Dr wrote me a note to be absent from school the whole week..you may be thinking that's awesome.. but really that means I need to make up a weekend worth of work and hardly have the time as it is.. so anyway, my energy is coming back a little I'm still really achy and go through spurts of being REALLY cold, last night i was so cold i started to tern blue..the dr said there wasn't much medicine he could give me for it, just fluids, rest, and Tylenol to manage the fever.

I checked my phone a little bit ago (this is literally the first time I've been on my laptop since Tuesday night) and I have a number of missed calls.. damn I hope I don't loose a deal over this. I can't really talk now my voice sounds really crazy :(

Well, i think i gotta go lay back down im startig to get cold again lol

Dennis

Yay :)

Good news comin up.. can't type much now got this crazy lab report to do but i did manage to get a deal out of those 17..and i have 2 possibles that are a weak possible.. but you never know.

I did the grossest necropsy (autopsy) on a 80lb German Shepherd today..it ate rat poison (anti coagulant..prevents blood from clottin)..poor dog basically drown internally.. moral of the story DON'T LET YOUR DOG GET TO RAT POISON!

hoLLa i'll be back tomorrow or next day with the good news :)

Dennis

6 Counters hopefully 1 approval and ..no buyer??

Okay, so from all the offers I sent out last week, I managed to get a few counters and one is looking like it will be accepted so far. However..

The buyer situation:

All week, part of me has been scared to think about what if i get one accepted because i don't really have a buyer who is willing to buy a lot of houses right now -- or so i thought.

So a few days ago, i got my first counter it was from a listing agent who i've done a deal with before, we're close enough to where i can tell him some some things.. anyway, i was telling him my situation and how i have a number of offers out there with no buyer and how i was scared to get one accepted. He told me of a guy..(don't you love those) who is buying a lot of properties in the area under the radar. He talked to the guy for me, then the next day i got a phone call from him. He's a guy who has a lot of cash and is buying up properties in greensboro and in winston salem (neighboring city) anyway, so we chatted for a little and I told him about the deals that I have been able to pick up and about the offers i have out there, we'll he claims that he wants to buy 2 a week (which if i increase my production i'm sure i can supply ;)) but after reading tampasteph's blog you never know some of these self proclaimed big shots are worth a dime..but i may test him out with the first property i get accepted.

So-that's the new guy.

I just got back from meeting with my all time favorite buyer, he is very close to have more financing power lined up, he said he will have more then he had a few weeks ago, he was pretty excited, and that passed down to me :) so i'm not so sccared about the 17 offers out there floating around.

I'm going to amp up my "finding a buyer" activity, just in case.. cause' it's a scary feeling.. it seems like the world is crashing down around you when you run out of people to buy stuff from you.

That's about it for this week.

Outsourcing: my ebay biz being outsourced is like, the greatest thing since friend rice.. although it's not on autorun , it's getting closer to it, my efficiency is raising, i may be able to pick up more and more products. As long as I can oversea the operation, that's good enough.

PS: I'm thinking about starting up a small mastermind group in my area.. not necessarily real estate only related but any business. There are a lot of young people in various businesses in my area I talk to regularly and we always have good information to share.. so if i can get us all together for lunch and just discuss business..

Well, sorry for the long post!

laTa!

Dennis

17 Confirmed offers sent and some trouble over the horizon

Okay first things first. I was able to get 17 offers sent out! I can't believe it.. it took me about 3 hours to write everything up (prolly a lil less) but i was able to get it done, they didnt go out friday, they went out Saturday.

Hopefully I will see some action this week :) Surprised, my phone didnt ring today.. but I know it will ring tomorrow :)

I had a meeting on friday with my favorite buyer! The guy that buys everything, literally.. and well not so good news :( He said that one of his local banks is basically failing, they are no longer funding RE investors, he had a $500k line with them, then ANOTHER one of his banks called him up with similar news. only he had about a million dollars through them (that sounds so weird to write lol) but it sucks, because now he is left with about 500k through another source, and 250 of it is being used. So he's desparatly trying to find more outlets.. he has assets and good credit :) so if anyone reading has about 2mil to lend let me know i know the perfect person :) / shameless add .. anyway, yea so that was a blow, he's trying to get his one line of 500k upto about a million, they may be able to.. but we will see.

This is kinda a blow to me, i've been so lazy in terms of finding more buyers because this guy was so reliable.. but you know what they say, can't put all your eggs in 1 basket. It's scary now though, i hope you can find some more outlets. There are not a whole heap of people buying stuff in greensboro right now, and the ones that are want to buy so cheap , they will get mad if I make more then $1000 on a deal, jerks. Well that's about it.. I have another meeting with him this week, hopefully he will have better news!

If I get one, or some of these offers approved..then i better get rollin finding buyers.. oh yea, my girl who is making my lists for me just sent me another list that about doubles last weeks! There is so many properties on the market that are waiting to get scooped up, damn i wish i had a lot of cash.

I NEED TO FIND BUYERS!!!!!!! arg

Sunday, I lost a classmate of mine unexpectedly so that was kinda rough. My heart and prayers are going out to his family....a genuinely good guy, and we shared the same name.

Dennis