Ive been driving my neighborhoods for sometime now. I’m getting a much better feel for street qualities and areas with problems. I’m finding vacant properties and I’m recording the addresses. I’m looking up the owners of those homes. For some reason, I haven’t gotten a letter out.

Fear is a damned thing. I’m not afraid of phone calls, making offers, buying or selling houses. Its a fear of not knowing every bend in front of me. I am a very analytical person. I need to know all the facts. Try going to a museum with me, it takes me 2 hours to get out of the front lobby. Of all the facts out there, the one I should concentrate on is the fact that there is and will always be unknown elements. I simply need to push the ball down the hill. This is my self ass kicking to get it going. Keep moving forward! Mush!

Thats out of the way. I have gotten a bunch done. I viewed a few more MLS properties. Making an offer tomorrow on one tomorrow. 30k below list. We’ll see how they respond. The other property agent told me not to bother offering below 60k. 53k is as high as I’ll go, so I’ll wait them out. I have my vacant house letter and tracking sheet ready. My coach and I had a good call this week covering a variety of topics, I took care of an old tax issue (I hope, bloody IRS better not lose the paperwork for the 4th time), and I nearly completed my landscaping on my home. Pictures coming.

My big goal for the next week is to use those errant 15 minute blocks to my advantage. I will be in hurry up and wait mode all week as we do final wedding preps. The wedding preps take absolute priority, but there will be plenty of downtime I can get things done. I will have 25 letters prepped and ready for mail when I get back from the honeymoon. I do not want to get calls these next two weeks. That is the reason for the delay. I don’t want any distractions and my phone will be off. Nothing in real estate is that damn important.

I shall leave you with a quote that I have posted next to my computer.

“This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I will. I can waste it… or use it for good. But what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it. I want it to be a gain, and not a loss; good and not evil; success and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price i have paid for it.” — Author unknown.