JOEL BAUER HUGGING JOHN & LAURA HOLBROOK AT PASSION TO PROFIT SEMINAR IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

John Holbrook, Joel Bauer, and Laura Holbrook enoying a friendly hug at the Passion to Profit seminar in Los Angeles, California.

John gave Laura a ticket to the Passion to Profit seminar as a birthday gift. When Laura found out what her present was, she was apprehensive about it at first. Her concerns evaporated within a short time into the seminar. She became quickly aware that Joel Bauer is a presenter who truly wants to help others become great and successful.

What an amazing seminar!

Everybody should attend a Joel Bauer Seminar!

Joel Bauer inspires people to make immediate improvements in their lives. By the end of the first day of the seminar both John and Laura had learned how to dress in a way to more possitively influence people. They went to a store after the first day ended and purchased a few clothing items (seen in the picture) to begin their positive improvements.

Both John and Laura feel like they have had new ideas infused into their lives and business and are anxious to continue to impliment the improvements.

Listened to a Dave Lindahl conference call today and really enjoyed it. It's important to keep learning and improving our skills. We would like to buy some storage units like he suggested.

Mike and Cindy Martell: HAPPY BUYERS of Country Lane, Sweet Home OR

Biggies House

Wow, selling Biggie's house is becoming more of a challenge than we thought. First, it was the home of Laura's late mother, so the emotional aspect is greater than the business side of selling property. We have sold and bought a lot of property, but there is a difference when dealing with an estate. Progress is being made, which we are grateful for.

BIGGIE'S HOUSE DELAYED...

The buyers for BIGGIE'S HOUSE have a big delay in their financing. Two months ago they withdrew all of their money from their bank account and put it a safety deposit box, because they were worried about the banking system. Turns out, in this case, the mortgage lender doesn't want cash from a safety deposit box as a down payment, they want the funds to be in a bank account for 60 days, or at least this particular lender does. So ... the 30 day closing is much longer than 30 days now.
LESSON: Before making a creative money move, check with a professional banker or lender to make sure you are not creating unnecessary challenges.

Joseph and Crystal buying a house tomorrow

Joseph and Crystal are getting ready to close on a house in Hawaii. Their mortgage loan will have a 4.5 interest rate ... yeah!
Interest rates keep going up, today they were in the 6% range, we want to buy while they are relatively low and prices low too!

Biggie's House Sells: Brownsville, Oregon

Biggie, the cat, lives in this 3 bedroom, 1 bath, single car garage, established yard with shade trees, roses and herbs, hot tub, cat condo, wood stove, gas and electric heat, air conditioned, property that sold last week. We listed it with a realtor, Sheri Gregory with Heritage Northwest Realty, Sweet Home, Oregon. We like working with Sheri and her assistant Jaida, they are a great team. We were pleased with their advertising as well as the attention they gave each prospective buyer. Advertising does payoff! As does a clean property in a nice neighborhood, as well as being able to greatly discount the price. The offer was $112,000.00, (asking price was $122,000.00, purchase price 7 years ago was $115, 000.00...loan balance is $78,405.00) which we accepted. The buyer also wanted us to throw in the refrigerator, washer and dryer ...

Biggie agreed to throw in the appliances, he said, "What does a cat need those things for anyway?"

Sounds like a low offer? It is, but it's also the only offer we have had in the five months it has been listed.

"A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush," my mother used to say.

We added two addendum's: 1. We use the title company of our choice (Amerititle in Albany, Oregon) 2. We make no claims or guarantees that the hot tub is operational. What we learned.... always check the lot lines before listing, buying or selling property. (Something we already knew, but needed a refresher on.) As it turned out, the fence was about 5 feet on to the adjacent lot, which added expense and time on our part, because a fence, hot tub and deck had to be moved. If we would have done our homework a little better, and not just listened to neighbors who claimed they knew where the lot lines were, we would have found out where the pins were in the ground for the lot lines. Since we also were selling the lot next doors (it sold before the house) we could have done a lot line adjustment, prior to selling the lot, costing us some money in fees, but saving us time and more money and headaches. We are always learning and re-learning lessons.

PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT!