Archive for November, 2008

Happy Turkey Day!

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

No real post.  Heading to California for the weekend.  I hear its going to rain.  Looking forward to driving through the southern California desert in a rain storm.  BTW: One of my favorite shows "The Shield" aired its last episode last night.  It was a great, but definitely not a happy feel good show.  I ...

Remember SFH#1?

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Remember my single family house #1 which I sold last year?  Well I was doing my monthly real estate market check last week and I saw my old SFH#1 for sale.  It had been on the market for 20 days and was listed at $240,000 as a short sale. I sold the home ...

When does a product price get too high?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I am the type of guy who feels that his time is valuable.  I don't like to save a few pennies when it costs me some time.  I have always just went to Target and bought printer ink cartidges brand new.  I always bought the HP brand and went home ...

Short Update on Apartment #2

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Apartment #2 had a good October.  It's Net Operating Income increased by $6,000 from September to October.  This building is cashflowing nicely and at 96% occupancy.  There is really not much else to report on this property.  That's always a good thing!

Update on Houston Apartment #1

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

It's been 2 months since the hurricane in Houston and Apartment #1 has been repaired and it looks like its back on track again.  To recap on this apartment, this building is a 125 unit complex that was built in 1969.  The purchase price of the building was $4.8 million, we ...

SEO Investing

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Last month I spent over $1000 on PPC for Ebiz5.  While PPC is an excellent way to get targeted traffic, it's more of an instant ROI product.  If I spend $1000 and make $1300, I'm going to keep spending $1000/mo.  However, this should only be one portion of your marketing ...

Articles Update

Monday, November 17th, 2008

8 days ago I ordered a bunch of articles from people on digital point forums.  As I said in that post, I placed one order for $30 which gives me 15 articles of 250 words each.  I gave them a subject and keywords for each article. I placed a second order for ...