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Buy dirt - they aren’t making any more of it.
Seriously, does anyone think buying real estate - commercial/industrial especially in the Puget Sound area is a bad idea? Please me know why. I just don’t see it. We are expected to welcome an additional 1.7 million people to this area in the next 30 years. THE best article I have ever read about Seattle appears in September issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Truly, you will understand the appeal of this corner of the world after reading it.
There is going to have to be some imaginative financing/seller financing/trades going on for awhile - but it really will be good to get back to old fashioned basics. There are tremendous value now - instead of “pie in the sky” value - real honest to goodness value here in the Northwest.
This whole mess with the financial institutions vaporizing and the trickle-down affect it will have, reminds me of a scene from Dr. Zhivago when Geraldine Chaplin’s character thought of her life of affluence and then how a dozen families were living in their former home and said: “It is much more fair”. Get ready for a lot of “fair”.
What is a Print Broker? by Anna Castle
Just what does a printing broker do? Well, if you have have ever had a large, complex project to have printed and you spent a week learning the printing business, another week getting bids only to discover that the prices for different printers were considerably different for the same job. Now what? Printer #1 […]
MASTERMIND GROUPS
Some of these ideas came to me via NJ Shelsby. NJ is a fellow Rotarian, Tower Club member and friend. In fact NJ and H fell in love at my beach house in Pacific Beach! Here are some of the tips NJ shares for starting a Mastermind group.
The group should provide the structure, accountability […]
Impulsive - are you or aren’t you?
Do you tend ot be impulsive? If so, and if your job involves handling people, better slow down. Don’t make decisions hastily that involve other people. Take your time and look the situation over from all angles first.
Chances are, when you act impulsively, you’ve only considered one point of view - your own. Take […]
Do you blog?
There is a buzz out in the business world in general regarding blogging. New people are starting to blog everyday. An example would be me. I have been an active reader of blogs - but until now I have had no push to really start one myself. But it is a good idea. From […]
The new business model: a virtual office and club membership | networking without walls:
I remember when I used to start my businesses on the day after the new yellow pages hit the street, because I did not want to have negative cash flow until then. When was the last time you used the yellow pages? I have put them in front of my kids, opened to the correct page, […]
