What? No one is going to send me to the NAR convention? Their loss — and the losses are but beginning.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I need a partner. I’ve been thinking about this for months, but I don’t know that it’s something I can actually do anything about.<\/p>\n
Here’s where I am, at this stage of my life:<\/p>\n
I am swarming with ideas that can make boatloads of money.<\/p>\n
And:<\/p>\n
I am broke — not all the time, but frequently.<\/p>\n
Being broke is temporary. The cure for that is just hard work and a little luck.<\/p>\n
But the ideas are driving me insane, because I can see how much better things can be done, but I’m not able to accomplish even ten percent of what I can envision.<\/p>\n
I need people behind me. And for that I need money behind me. And for that I need a partner, someone who can bring or attract investment capital — and manage it.<\/p>\n
This is some of what I have going:<\/p>\n
Ascende.me is as sexy as four-day weekend in Vegas<\/a>, and there’s a lot more real-estate-porn power still to come. I’m building versions of Ascende for Realtors around the country<\/a>, but I can see ways to turn it into a cash-and-carry money machine.<\/p>\n As Sean Purcell pointed out yesterday<\/a>, the BloodhoundRealty.com real estate listing praxis is a fearsome competitor<\/a>. Phoenix is not a great listing market right now — but Phoenix is not the only city on earth.<\/p>\n We’re also building a property management business<\/a>, which is poised to explode. My rental homes lease fast and stay leased, yielding maximum profits for our landlords. I personally sell a lot of rental properties, which we then manage, and I am ready to start recruiting landlords who already own their rentals. As icing on that cake, I have killer ideas for taking a VOW feed and using it to build a virtual Point-of-Purchase for out-of-state investors.<\/p>\n Away from real estate, SplendorQuest.com<\/a> is a forest in its seed stage. There is a big marketing business in there — conferences, books, magazines, web sites, etc. It’s a content play, so there is no limit to the profit centers it can throw off.<\/p>\n My Get <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What? No one is going to send me to the NAR convention? Their loss — and the losses are but beginning. Meanwhile, I need a partner. I’ve been thinking about this for months, but I don’t know that it’s something I can actually do anything about. 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