Comments on: Happy With How Your Retirement Is Shaping Up?

By: Benn

Benn — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:24:50 +0000

Careful Jeff, you need to be able to fit my head into the car/room when we’re together in Austin in December!

By: BawldGuy

BawldGuy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:19:45 +0000

Benn — Thank you so much. I’m genuinely both humbled and honored by your post.

Without Brian Brady, our team would have faired far worse.

Without you, Benn, we wouldn’t have been given the opportunity to overcome the challenge in the first place.

Click on agentgenius readers — Benn Rosales is one of the brightest players on the real estate stage these days. Put his blog on your reader, and make him a habit. You won’t regret it, I promise.

By: The True Defination of Value - Good vs Great - I’ve Seen it : agentgenius.com

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:13:23 +0000

[...] For the better part of 60 days, I have worked with two of the country’s all stars in real estate, one in the mortgage industry, and the other in the investment brokerage business on a mega investment deal. During those 60 days, a certain development and developer fell into our laps- literally and figuratively. Now, the price was incredible, the location is impeccable, and the builder was right for a conversation about liquidity versus a hardline stance on their profit. Needless to say, we looked at the big picture and decided to take it head on- not every pick is perfect when the equity proposition is beyond your wildest return dreams- it must be molded and shaped into a cash flowing masterpiece. Now for those of you who are thinking you could have closed this sort of deal with the problems we’ve had in a shorter period, let me correct you now- it simply could not have been done because you simply do not know what we now know about this project. Meaning, I’m imagining that had it been a team of anyone else, you probably would have walked away 72 hours into the project based on the sheer magnitude against the odds of success- I’m sparing you the gory details- and those details have nothing to do with the A Class property investors we’ve had the pleasure of serving. [...]

By: Sean Carr

Sean Carr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:07:23 +0000

It’s been pretty easy to get caught on negativity bandwagon this year even if you’ve made some proper hedge positions. It’s never a bad idea to regain focus on the larger issue of purposeful planning.

Liked the Emmy award the other day as well.

By: Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:32:50 +0000

Lani — It’s worth it just to have made you laugh.

Default will become a concept seen here often, as what you say is, sadly, too true.

Folks — click on Lani’s name, you’ll be glad you did.

By: Lani Anglin-Rosales

Lani Anglin-Rosales — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:16:23 +0000

OMG THAT CAT IS HILARIOUS! I jumped off the feed reader to physically come to your site- behold the power of stupid photos!

In seriousness, a word that you used stood out to me- “default.” I believe that MOST people rely on some default SS plan or 401k plan to carry them to their rest home. Too bad those people haven’t met you yet! There should NEVER be a “default” retirement- it should be PURPOSEFULly PLANned.