If you are reading this and have not yet completed your business plan for 2011, STOP!

Stop everything you are doing this instant, and go and start you business plan now.  Don’t walk away from this planning exercise until you have finished it.  It is important to spend some focused time planning for the year ahead.  This is one of the most important tasks you can do….  Most successful people do this.  If you want to become successful, or become more successful than you currently are, you need to get into the habit of doing this

…Now that you have finished your business plan, let’s take a look at what happened at good ol First Rental Property this week!

Monday

Build a Real Estate Team You Can Be Proud Of

I thought that the graphic on this article might cause some controversy, as did the graphic on one of my posts at the myREINspace Forum.  Nevertheless, real estate teams in my opinion are what make or break an investor.  Check out how I draw multiple comparisons between Baseball and real estate in this creative post.

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Wednesday

67 Reasons Why You Should Have Subscribed To First Rental Property months ago

When I sat down to write this post, I didn’t think it could be done.  I sat and stared blankly at the headline of the post, which I had written first.  I always write my headlines first. My empty stare lasted for about 60 seconds and then the juices started to flow.  I had toyed with the idea of coming up with 93 reasons.  I guess I can always do a ‘Part Two‘.  Chris Davies referred to my post as an ‘epic list’.  It definitely was!

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Saturday (Christmas Day)

Why Every Real Estate Investor Should Celebrate Christmas

I thought twice about writing this post on Christmas Day.  Simply because I figured that a decreased number of people would be online and reading this blog.  Man, was I wrong!  The Internet never sleeps.  That is for sure.  Every real estate investor should celebrate Christmas or some form of it.  No IFs, ANDs or BUTs.  Period.

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How to Become Successful:  I thought that this article was great.  It was very well written, and it is a timely read especially at this time of the year, when we are planning for the upcoming year.  Kudos to Rita Putatunda for writing such a fantastic article.  Every real estate investor, whether experienced or novice can benefit from reading this article.

Best Regards,

Neil Uttamsingh.

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