If you live anywhere along the I-15 corridor in Utah, specifically in Salt Lake and Utah counties, you’ve likely seen all the signs along the highway popping up touting the ability to sell your home without broker commissions, potentially saving tens of thousands of dollars by going around the traditional process of listing your home…
Article Summary This article discusses my experience with real estate agents and the way they typically do marketing, most often online. More importantly, I present a checklist of items any real estate agent can do to build an online pipeline of client leads to grow a business helping people buy and sell homes. Here is…
Paying taxes is close to the top of the least favorite things for people who work hard to earn a living. As of 2018, the average American pays over $10,000 in taxes on wages earned, including over $8,000 in federal income tax and over $2,000 in state and local income taxes. Tack onto those income…
I recently moved from Utah to Tennessee, and I found out several months ago (while looking at getting a cashier’s check from a Chase Bank location close to Nashville) about my banking situation that I hadn’t considered. It took me by surprise. Chase Bank doesn’t have any branches here in Tennessee, including the Nashville area….
The landscape of ecommerce has changed drastically since I started my first online business about 20 years ago. When I first began selling drop-shipped products on websites or sourcing products to sell on eBay, it was seen as normal to require the customer to pay shipping costs. In fact, many sellers on the various online…
I really don’t want any of my children to be a coder for a living. But I’m teaching all of them to write code. Here’s why. My Own Software Development Experience There was a time in my life when I thought I would spend my next thirty or so years employed in a career, from…
Over the past few months, I have been wading into real estate investing by purchasing a couple of nightly rental condos in the Saint George, Utah area. Because this is my first experience with nightly rentals, and due to the fact that I already have more things on my schedule than I currently have time…
Several years ago, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who was struggling with his career, his finances, and other elements of his life. As we drove home from a meeting we had attended together with a non-profit organization, he vented about all of the issues he had been having. He told almost…
One of the resources I’ve begun using as I’ve waded into the waters of real estate investing is an organization called BiggerPockets, which was created to encourage real estate investment by building a community and disseminating educational and other information about how to go about real estate investment. Probably the biggest hurdle (outside of having…
The past 20 years of my career (pretty much my entire career) have been spent primarily building online businesses, including projects like this website. I’ve had more success earning money than I could have ever imagined when I started close 20 years ago, but I have had this nagging feeling throughout the last 10-15 years…