Issue #2602
- WEALTHY: 4 reasons real estate investing is a must these days (Dean Graziosi)
- HEALTHY: You don’t need to be an expert to live healthy (Kelley Herring)
- WISE: Kahlil Gibran on knowledge
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- How the ETR archives are like cold pizza (Alex Mandossian)
- The incredible disappearing business (Jason Holland)
- It’s Fun to Know… about TV contact lenses
- Add “lapidary” to your vocabulary
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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
Kahlil Gibran
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Real Estate Market for Investors
Think now isn’t a good time to get into the real estate game? Think again. We’re seeing a fusion of factors that are creating once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for potential investors.
1. The “irrational” markets are over.
The wild appreciation in real estate values over the 10-year period that peaked in 2006 is history. There’s no argument from anyone on that point. Combine that with the failure of huge banks and home lenders, and you have a very tight money market restricting any short-term price growth.
2. Prices are flat or down just about everywhere.
This may sound ominous, but it’s far from negative. Never before have homes in great neighborhoods been available at such depressed prices. There are foreclosure bargains in every price range. And suggested government programs may subsidize the liquidation of these foreclosure properties at even lower prices. It’s a true buyer’s market.
3. Those who lost their homes must rent.
Rental demand is increasing, and should do so for years. Those who lost their homes to foreclosure must rebuild their credit. And before they’ll be able to purchase again, lenders will require them to make larger down payments and meet stricter requirements. So they’ll be renting for a long time to come.
Remember, a large percentage of those foreclosures happened because people made poor choices when they got their mortgages – not because of financial misfortune. Many foreclosure victims are still employed and can pay market rental rates, and they are likely going to rent something similar to their previous home.
4. Government initiatives are depressing interest rates and stimulating home sales.
Though requirements have tightened, those with good credit and a down payment can get mortgage rates lower than at any time in the last 20 years. And since the government has a strong stake in reviving the housing market, more help is on the way.
Even if you live and invest in an area where prices have merely stalled or grown by a tiny margin, the opportunity is the same. When the hardest-hit areas (the Southeast, the West Coast, and the Southwest) are just turning around, these less volatile areas will already be showing price appreciation.
From a purely economic supply/demand viewpoint, this is an amazing window in time for real estate investors. We have more demand for rentals, lower prices to purchase properties, lower rates to finance our purchases, and a government that’s using every avenue it can to stimulate the housing industry.
To take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity, you need to be poised to jump as soon as a good investment arises.
Investing in real estate, whether you’re new to the business or an old pro, doesn’t require a whole lot of skills. But it does require knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the better able you’ll be to spot the best deals.
One of the sayings I live by is “Knowledge plus action equals results.” To be a successful real estate investor, you need to be constantly adding to your knowledge base – especially when it comes to:
- Current national real estate sales and price trends
- Local trends that influence where people want to live
- Local employment, industrial, and job creation activities
- Neighborhood dynamics (whether the population is growing or declining)
- Resources for everything from loans to renovation
Knowledge comes from many sources and directions. Make sure you get your information from someone who is active in the current market – not someone stuck in the pre-bubble days.
Of course, as Robert Ringer and Michael Masterson have said many times, knowledge doesn’t do you a lick of good unless you get off your butt and do something with it. This means taking action – turning over every rock, investigating every real estate investment that sounds good, and moving on the best ones.
[Ed. Note: Dean Graziosi is a full-time investor who began his investing career over 20 years ago - during the last major recession! He's made millions of dollars with his real estate investments, and currently has more than 30 deals in the works. Discover his bestselling blueprint for making $10,000 in 30 days right here.
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Discover the Learning Power of “Content Diving”
I often enjoy cold pizza “the morning after” more than the piping hot version the night before.
What does the joy of devouring day-old pizza have to do with your success as an info-marketing entrepreneur?
Two things, actually…
1. Principle centered content never gets stale, it only gets better with age.
You can return to it again and again to see it with new eyes on YouTube, hear it with new ears on a teleseminar, or visualize it with a new mind when reading a blog post or an e-mail message like this one.
2. Deep diving into familiar content doesn’t breed contempt, it breeds more success!
Your one and only path to mastering anything is through the path of familiarity.
If you are an info marketer, the only way your prospects can acknowledge you as a trusted advisor on a topic they are unfamiliar with… is to first acknowledge you as a trusted advisor on a topic they are familiar with.
That makes a lot of sense, right?
As the French novelist Marcel Proust once said: “The true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” (That quote will remain framed and hung up on my home-office wall as long as I’m breathing.)
I know you won’t yet find a definition for “content diving” in Wikipedia or any online dictionary. Yet I also know that when your readers, listeners,orviewers decide to dive deep into your info-marketing content, you have already arrived in their minds as their trusted advisor.
How can you use content diving to make yourself more successful? Visit www.EarlytoRise.com right now. See the box on the upper-right of the home page? It says “Search” next to an empty white field.
That’s the content diving tool I want you to utilize more often when you visit Early to Rise (and any other site or blog that can help you achieve success more quickly).
Put your fingers on your keyboard and type a few keyword phrases into that Search box (just like you do at Google) to discover the hidden treasure you’ve been missing.
I can practically guarantee that you’ll accelerate your learning on the topics you’re interested in a lot faster and better, and with less effort.
[Ed. Note: Make sure you apply your new content diving skills to marketing master Alex Mandossian's blog here. And let us know which websites offer you the best and most useful content right here.]
Prevent Your Business From Being an “Open and Shut” Case
Chinese take-out is big business in South Florida. But “Chang’s” never had a chance.
They opened, added their name to the sign at the plaza entrance… and that was it. No ads in the local paper, no insert in the Penny Saver, not even a guy sticking flyers under windshield wipers in the parking lot.
Have you assumed this same “build it and they will come” attitude with your business? You may have built a website and created products. But have you taken steps to build up your e-mail marketing list or optimize your site for Google searches?
You need to “channelize” your business by marketing via as many different channels as possible. That means getting the word out about your products through search engine optimization, pay-per-click campaigns, forum posts, e-mail marketing, direct mail, print ads, TV ads … every marketing channel that’s appropriate for your market.
As Michael Masterson and MaryEllen Tribby write in Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Million for Your Business:
“Your best customers are those who are motivated, financially capable of buying from you, and prepared to buy. If you don’t locate and convert these customers through a multi-channel, direct-response advertising campaign, then you are leaving dollars – perhaps millions of dollars – on the table.”
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Why My Dad Is the Richest Man I Know
Hard to believe, but my father looks as young today – at 60 – as he did at 40. And though he may argue that he’s lost a bit more hair than he’d like, his face, his spirit, and his health seem to have been frozen in time.
While I’d like to think that I got his “good genes,” we all know genetics is only a small part of the equation. He passed on something even more valuable: an understanding of natural health.
I remember asking, when I was about eight years old, “Dad, why don’t we ever have white bread in the house?” Always a man of few words, he replied, “The whiter the bread, the quicker you’re dead.”
When I asked “why,” he explained: “White bread has been stripped of the good stuff. It’s just bad for you.”
As I ate my whole-wheat peanut butter sandwich and apple and drank my carton of whole milk, I watched my friends chow down on marshmallow fluff sandwiches on soft white bread accompanied by cheesy-flavored chips and sodas. And I watched them “grow” much faster than I did – horizontally, not vertically.
My father is no scientist. He can probably tell you a little bit about vitamin C and vitamin E. He loves blueberries (and knows they’re full of antioxidants). And he never overeats.
When I would come home ravenously hungry after skating or biking or dancing ballet for hours and head for the refrigerator, he would say, “Slow down. Your stomach needs time to catch up. If you’re still hungry in 20 minutes, you can eat more then.” I doubt he had any idea that what he was telling me was an ancient Japanese principle called Hara Hachi Bu – meaning “Eat until you’re 80 percent full. Then stop.”
My dad is proof that you don’t need to be a personal trainer or a doctor… nor do you need to have a nutritionist at your beck and call. Simply adhere to a few easy-to-follow guidelines when it comes to what you eat and how you exercise, and you can live a long, full life feeling (and looking!) younger than your years.
My father taught me that health is the ultimate wealth. I hope you will take his lessons to heart and make your own life better… starting today.
[Ed. Note: Ready to start feeling better and living healthier? You can get easy-to-follow guidelines for staying fit, eating better, and taking advantage of the latest breakthroughs. Just sign up for ETR's FREE natural health newsletter right here.
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It’s Fun to Know: TV Contact Lenses
With high-def flat screens, PCs, iPods, and all those other media devices, you might think the world has enough ways to watch television and movies.
Think again.
Based on recent technological advances, a British futurist foresees TVs in the form of contact lenses. This would allow viewers to “immerse” themselves in sports, action movies, and other programming. The lenses would be powered by body heat. Channels would be changed by voice command or hand motion.
Of course, you’ll want to take this “prediction” with a grain of salt. Futurists are the guys who envisioned bubble cities on the ocean floor, flying cars, and moon colonies.
(Source: The Daily Mail)
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Word to the Wise: Lapidary
“Lapidary” (LAP-uh-dare-ee) – from the Latin – refers to the art of cutting or engraving on stone. The word is also used to refer to a refined, terse style of writing (associated with inscriptions on monuments).
Example (as used by Michael Foley in Getting Used to Not Being Remarkable): “Here, disgusted by venality and intrigue, the retired courtier would come to compose lapidary maxims and wise but sympathetic letters to ardent youth.”
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