Posts Tagged ‘Experienced Investors’

New EPA Lead Paint Laws Effect Remodeling Projects

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has new lead paint laws going into effect on April 22, 2010. The new lead paint laws require any renovation work performed on houses built before 1978 to be performed by a certified contractor. Obviously his new law is causing some serious moans and groans from both home owners and contractors. Contractors will be required to provide home owners the Renovate Right Brochure which contains useful information about the new law.

How Much Are You Really Worth?

We’ve all heard of the time-value of money, but have you ever thought about the time-value of you? If I could sell you an hour of your own time, would it be worth $5.00? The real question is, what is your time really worth? What’s the time-value of you? To earn $100,000 a year you need to earn about $50 an hour, assuming a 40 hour work week. That means anything you do that is worth less than $50, or that someone else could have done it for less that $50, is costing you money! The most common challenge I hear from entrepreneurs and small business owners today is that their task list seems to grow and grow. They feel stressed and overwhelmed. That’s where a trained Virtual Assistant comes in.

Good Questions Beget Good Responses

Working with two of my PACT coaching (future real estate investor) clients recently, we were discussing why they were having difficulty getting their offers accepted. As we began to explore the situation, we discovered that although these students had become very good at information gathering, they still needed to “peel the onion” a bit more. [...]