i have decided to start posting about my everyday investing activities including the good and bad. It is currently Sept 13, 06 and so far this month i have bought 4 houses. I wont get into those at this point but will discuss what is going on in a particular day. i am starting to coach steven and karen kowalski from the nashville, tn area and they will be posting here as well.

i dont invest full time but do probably spend close to 30 hours a week or more working my real estate investing business. today as i had many other things to do, i only went and looked at one house and my seller no showed. i will get back with them another day. realtors contacted me about foreclosed houses they had so sell so i am doing some research on a couple of specific properties. one was for sale above retail value as a foreclosure.

i had my closing attorney call and he was doing a closing for house on delano street in the memphis frayser area the had a 45 days to close set up and the sellers wanted us to pay their last mortgage payment with was $406. i agreed to pay $200 and the house closed today. late in the day a realtor showing my home for sale on sea isle discovered it had been broken into so i have sent a maintenance guy over to check it out and someone had kicked in the back door and tried to steal the air conditioning system. vacant houses are open targets in memphis and this sort of thing can be an ongoing problem.

i have an assistant who contacts my leads and sets appointments and helps work short sales. i gave her six new leads to work on today.

i also sent my nashville students 2 online leads i got today for their area.