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Renovation Progress Part 2

2009-07-15T09:54:00.006-05:00

Ok, so its been close to 3 months since my last blog post. I know, I know its been too long. Well so much of LIFE has been happening so here I am now : ) I wanted to give an update on my grandfathers renovation progress. To date it has been completed 100%. This video was taken in June and I'm just now posting it! The contractors did any excellent job and you can't tell this is a 40 year old home!

The den, living area, kitchen, hallway and bathroom floors received a facelift! It's so fun to see before and after pictures of a home once it has been rehabbed or renovated. I can't wait to do half of the things to my home that he has done. My grandfather asked if I would put the contractors information on my blog to give them some exposure (he is so thoughtful). Andrews Construction, owner is Jeremy Andrews phone number (903) 806-0257. The company is in Henderson, TX but they will travel to the Dallas, Fort Worth area for jobs.

Check out the Part 2 after video! If you can't remember the before video scroll down and view the video from April......

What This 72 Year Old Man Has to Say About Maintaining a Home

2009-04-27T08:23:00.010-05:00

So I took a trip to visit my family last week, my mom and grandparents. My grandfather is in the middle of a major renovation and I had a chance to talk with him about it. Now you have to understand my grandfather he is a retired, active, healthy 77 year old that hasn't slowed down since he retired. He is a very sharp carpenter, electrician, welder, builder...lol. I mean he can pretty much do anything, STILL! I had a chance to meet the contractor and his crew hired to do the job but you better believe my grandfather is not just standing by watching them have all the fun!

He truly takes pride in making sure his home is in great shape, safe, looks good and updated. I have to admit when I leave East Texas I am motivated to make some changes or upgrades to my house and/or landscaping. I'm still working on him to create and draw plans for my patio deck I'm having built next spring, keep your fingers crossed!

What Does Wrestling and RE Investing Have In Common?

2009-04-05T16:59:00.007-05:00

So I'm sitting in the American Airlines Center with my friend Tom who invited me out to the WWE. As I'm sitting there enjoying the "Show" I started asking why are people so excited about huge hercules looking men (and woman) that live in the gym, dress up to act out and fly around the ring to land on each other. So I asked myself what does wrestling and real estate investing have in common?

1. Action and excitement
2. Opportunity
3. Alot of people involved
4. BIG BUCKS!!

#3 stands out because in RE Investing alot of people involved have yet to do there 1st deal, make any money or understand no cash no credit investing. Here is a great article on RE Investing No Cash No Credit.

Check out my WWE experience, happy investing : )

Pulling my hair out from the same email!

2009-03-21T13:34:00.006-05:00

I'm here at Starbucks reflecting over the past week. Overall it was a good productive week. I have been doing everything from reviewing deals to learning more about blogging and different ways to share information and resources with you : ) I ran across one blogger who is an investor also and she hit on something that caught my attention concerning emails from different Real Estate Gurus promoting the same product. (Like she read my mind or something)

Lately I've received a ton of emails from probably the same Real Estate Gurus. Seriously every other email is about this one product....lol. I was tired of hitting the "delete" button. Not to say the material isn't good but you (maybe a new investor) want to make sure the material is good for you. There are several ways you can find out:

1. Ask other investors you trust or know about the material.
2. If they would recommend the material.
3. If the material is out dated or not.
4. Do some research on that Guru

The real estate game has changed ALOT over the last couple of years so Carlton "what's his name" strategies may be impossible to use. (Nothing against him just making a point).

Don't forget this is a GREAT time to be in the Real Estate Investing world! Here is a great source to get information.

To Your Success....

Twitter Me This Twitter Me That

2009-03-15T21:11:00.005-05:00

For those of you that have been following me for a while I'm sure your saying "Thank God she finally updated and changed her blog"...lol. Well I do agree it has been long overdue. I have been busy with deals, marketing and training new partners.

I must admit I have become a Twitter junkie. For those of you that haven't heard of twitter are "old school internet users" (I had a friend of mine tell me that a few months ago). So what is Twitter? Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Do you see how powerful this is? More exposure more opportunities to link with quality people, network and do business.

I have only been on Twitter for about 3 weeks and generated 500 followers and over 350 following me. Now for some twitter pros this is nothing but I have recently focused more time on how twitter works and resources to help me attract more followers. I have discovered a tool that will allow me to get thousands of new followers in days. I will keep you posted throughout the process.

I started using TweetLater about a week ago and its a great tool to automate your tweets and I'm all about automation!

If you don't Twitter, beware you may get hooked.

My Partner Closed His First Real Estate Deal

2009-03-14T16:36:00.007-05:00

I'm really excited for one of my partners Chris. He closed his 1st wholesale deal and made $7000. I must say this 20 something year old young man is a true example of someone who is self motivated and determined to be a successful real estate investor. I first met Chris several months ago through another partner and from that meeting I loved his energy, attitude and willingness to learn.

After searching Craigslist, placing bandit signs and searching several online lead sights Chris was able to get a HOT motivated seller (from the bandit signs) interested in selling their property. The owner was 70 something years old and he had 2 brothers that inherited the property.

The are many different ways to obtain leads and it doesn't hurt to be a little creative with how you get them, as long as its legal of course : )

Need more leads? Click here to get FREE leads for 30 Days. Please share and report if you get any deals from the source. I would love to know if you closed any deals.

My dogs are pooped from New Years...

2009-01-02T12:13:00.005-06:00

Happy New Year to you! Wow what a 2008 it was my dogs Dexter and Ceily are pooped! We partied like a rock star New Years Eve!! Not really we enjoyed a quiet evening at home watched TV, played music and danced with Dexter and Ceily : ) This picture was taken around 2am New Years Day.

We have some exciting things happening in 2009. One is my live "Makin it with Lo Radio Show" and additional up to date and powerful information and resources about Real Estate Investing, Entrepreneurship, Network Marketing and Creating Streams of Income I will share with you to make your 2009 more prosperous and productive as ever.

Keep in mind that 94% of people dwell on the negative. 6% see an opportunity in nearly everything that comes their way.

I'm looking forward to 2009. I'm convinced it will be a year of great opportunity, as it will also be a year of great change.

The best advice I can give is to "prepare for change". Keep a level head, work-out what is working and what is NOT working, mix this with an opportunity, and change accordingly. If your horse is dead, get off it and find another (I'm into riding several horses at a time). If your horse is wounded, then decide if you are going to fix it or shoot it – BUT whatever you do – DO SOMETHING - take action

To Your Success,
Lo

A Beautiful Thing When You Help People...

2008-12-10T09:06:00.006-06:00

This is me and one of my clients, the Trevino's. I did a Sub 2 deal for Martin's mom's house several months ago and we stayed in touch. He expressed he wanted a nice home for his family before Christmas in a certain area of Dallas so I went online, made a few calls and found another investor that had the perfect house (rent to own). I told Martin and his wife to go see the house, they loved it! So after 3 days we all (Me, Martin and his family and the Investor) met at the house, closed the deal and I received a NICE Marketing Fee!! Not only did I help find the house for the Trevino's, it only took a few phone calls, some searching on the internet and BAM, I got paid! Gotta love this business : )

10 Reasons You Aren't Rich

2008-11-17T13:56:00.006-06:00

This is a great article and I wanted to share it. I hope it gets you fired up like it did me : )

Lolita "aka" Lo

By Jeffrey Strain, Special to TheStreet.com

The reason why you aren't a millionaire (or on your way to becoming one) is really quite simple. You probably assume it's because you aren't earning enough money, but the truth is that for most people, whether or not you become a millionaire has very little to do with the amount of money you make. It's the way that you treat money in your daily life.
Here are 10 possible reasons you aren't a millionaire:

1. You Care What Your Neighbors Think: If you're competing against them and their material possessions, you're wasting your hard-earned money on toys to impress them instead of building your wealth.

2. You Aren't Patient: Until the era of credit cards, it was difficult to spend more than you had. That is not the case today. If you have credit card debt because you couldn't wait until you had enough money to purchase something in cash, you are making others wealthy while keeping yourself in debt.

3. You Have Bad Habits: Whether it's smoking, drinking, gambling or some other bad habit, the habit is using up a lot of money that could go toward building wealth. Most people don't realize that the cost of their bad habits extends far beyond the immediate cost. Take smoking, for example: It costs a lot more than the pack of cigarettes purchased. It also negatively affects your wealth in the form of higher insurance rates and decreased value of your home.

4. You Have No Goals: It's difficult to build wealth if you haven't taken the time to know what you want. If you haven't set wealth goals, you aren't likely to attain them. You need to do more than state, "I want to be a millionaire." You need to take the time to set saving and investing goals on a yearly basis and come up with a plan for how to achieve those goals.

5. You Haven't Prepared: Bad things happen to the best of people from time to time, and if you haven't prepared for such a thing to happen to you through insurance, any wealth that you might have built can be gone in an instant.

6. You Try to Make a Quick Buck: For the vast majority of us, wealth doesn't come instantly. You may believe that people winning the lottery are a dime a dozen, but the truth is you're far more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery. This desire to get rich quickly likely extends into the way you invest, with similar results.

7. You Rely on Others to Take Care of Your Money: You believe that others have more knowledge about money matters, and you rely exclusively on their judgment when deciding where you should invest your money. Unfortunately, most people want to make money themselves, and this is their primary objective when they tell you how to invest your money. Listen to other people's advice to get new ideas, but in the end you should know enough to make your own investing decisions.

8. You Invest in Things You Don't Understand: Your hear that Bob has made a lot of money doing it, and you want to get in on the gravy train. If Bob really did make money, he did so because he understood how the investment worked. Throwing in your money because someone else has made money without fully understanding how the investment works will keep you from being wealthy.

9. You're Financially Afraid: You are so scared of risk that you keep all your money in a savings account that is actually losing money when inflation is put into the equation, yet you refuse to move it to a place where higher rates of return are possible because you're afraid that you will lose money.

10. You Ignore Your Finances: You take the attitude that if you make enough, the finances will take care of themselves. If you currently have debt, it will somehow resolve itself in the future. Unfortunately, it takes planning to become wealthy. It doesn't magically happen to the vast majority of people.

In reality, it is probably not just one of the above bad habits that has kept you from becoming a millionaire, but a combination of a few of them. Take a hard look at the list, and do some reflecting. If you want to be a millionaire, it's well within your power, but you'll have to face the issues that are currently keeping you from creating that wealth before you will have a chance to call yourself one.

Recession, What Recession???

2008-06-08T02:13:00.087-05:00

What a Meeting!!!

A few of my partners and I started having meetings every Thursday here in the Dallas Fort Worth area and they have been very successful. For those of you that are out of state, sorry you are missing out on the coolest and most X-rated bash ever!! LOL, I am kidding but seriously people that are interested in Real Estate Investing and additional business opportunities to generate passive income have been showing up by the herds...........

Now is the time for "CHANGE"

So what about 1.2 Million people losing their jobs, SO FAR, this year? Well it is a sad case and I was actually a Countrywide lay off casualty back in June but guess what...... I had a plan B. I was a real estate investor on the "DOWN LOW" while working at Countrywide for almost 2 years. I knew that the time was going to come for the BIG AX so I prepared myself by buying books, cd's and going to seminars to educate myself and joined real estate investing and entrepreneur groups to network and pick the brains of the veterans to do business, build my credibility, name and here I am TODAY ; )

My Passion is Real Estate Investing but I strongly believe in generating Passive Income and having multiple streams of income through network marketing and team building. Think about it in this economy we really don't have a choice.

Did you know that more people are in Direct Sales and Network marketing opportunities than ever before? So what is holding you back from your goals, dreams or things you would like to "CHANGE" in your finances and life?

Click here to read about, "Network Marketing and Team Building"

Fun with Friends, 14 of us Took a 7 Day Cruise in October and had a blast!! Check how I almost killed myself trying to film and drive!!!! (No I had not been drinking)