Disability Planning: Control Your Destiny

Mention estate planning and most people think of wills and trusts. But a good estate plan includes things to help you if you become disabled (Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, coma, vegetative state, critical illness, etc.). There are three documents to consider: an advance health care directive, a power of attorney for finances, and a trust. The first two are vital. The […]

Buy a property in Dubai

There are very few with a passing interest in overseas property who will not have read something about Dubai and its unique real estate market by now. It has only been open to foreign investors since 2003 and freehold ownership will not become an option until later this year. Dubai, which is the second largest of the seven emirates that […]

Are you covered, is your service contractor insured?

Okay all homeowners, here’s a question for you… Are you insured? Of course you are. Before even considering closing on a home, obtaining property insurance is required. What about the home improvement contractor, are they insured? Sometimes hiring a contractor to do work on your residence is a difficult task. Who do you hire? And how to find a trustworthy […]

Public speaking: create your own public speaking events

Take control of your writing and speaking events using all those business cards you’ve been collecting over the years, the ones you tossed in a drawer and forgot about. Wait before throwing them. Those business cards are a valuable professional resource for your writing and speaking business. Like most people, for many years I collected business cards from people that […]

Baseball glove care

The last quick baseball glove repair I did recently was just another case of glove negligence…probably from the beginning. Just a little care of the baseball glove right after it was purchased and a little more during the playing season would have prevented the tears he was now repairing. Of course, the breaks happened during the new high school season, […]

Marketing! The pulse of your real estate business

To be successful as a real estate investor or basically any other market, you need to know how to market. Marketing is the pulse of your business, without a pulse, you stay flat and DIE, no really, you’re dead, or you could be because you’re not doing anything in the business. You can be a novice investor or a seasoned […]