Investing In Foreclosed Property

February 16, 2010 by EnnisP · 2 Comments
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I just spent the last two weeks searching and arranging details for my first home purchase. It was a time consuming process but I learned a lot and hope to share some of that learning with you. I haven’t closed on the property yet and will post information as we proceed but I wanted to write about some of the initial stages while it is still fresh.

Because this was my first purchase I proceeded very cautiously and I recommend that approach for every new home buyer. It can be a complicated process and mistakes in the early stages could create pressure in the latter stages. You can get into trouble if you aren’t sufficiently prepared or knowledgeable. The large number of foreclosures on the market is evidence of that. I have been planning for this transaction for a few years and the planning involved several key issues three of which I will address here. Read more

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E-Monsters In The Home

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January 29, 2010 by EnnisP · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Christian Living, Making Money

How much money are you willing to throw away during the course of a day?

Not give away or spend or share or lose to a bad investment? I’m talking about money you pull out of your pocket, throw on the ground and walk away from. Maybe we should call that “money left on the ground” or better yet “leaked.” It isn’t misspent or frivolously used, like when you make a bad financial decision. It’s just not there, as if you never had it to begin with.

So, how much of your hard earned money are you willing to treat as if you never had it in the first place? Four or five dollars a day? Maybe just one? Most people, I’m sure, are thinking none but are you aware… Read more

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Dad Got One Thing Wrong

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January 8, 2010 by EnnisP · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Christian Living, Family, Making Money

Don’t misunderstand. I loved and respected my Dad very much. He had his faults, everyone does, but he was generally a reliable bread winner, cared about us, his family, and there were some things about Dad I admire to this day, one of which was his skill at gardening. He loved his gardening!

Unfortunately, there was one thing he got wrong. When I was a youngster, he said I too would develop a love for gardening one day – “growing things in the ground” was the way he put it. He repeated that sentiment many times and it was usually while I was grumbling about being forced to pull weeds, cut grass and rake leaves. I’m a married man of many years now with two grown sons and some grand kids of my own and I’m still waiting for that day. Read more

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Financial Growth Strategies

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December 22, 2009 by EnnisP · 2 Comments
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When it comes to Christian living, there are two areas that each believer must revisit regularly: financial growth and church growth. These things are hard to get right and require constant monitoring.

We weren’t born with a fully developed strategy for financial growth and we weren’t born AGAIN with a healthy concept of church growth and we don’t readily recognize the connection between the two. But they do connect.

One measures the health of your secular life; the other measures the health of your spiritual life.
Financial growth provides resources to fuel church growth and growing churches teach people principles for managing finances properly.

We must not neglect these two issues. This post will focus on financial health. Read more

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“The Future of Management” by Gary Hamel

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November 20, 2009 by EnnisP · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Book Reviews, Computing, Making Money

Normally, “management” wouldn’t be listed as one of the top ten most exciting topics to discuss on a blog but it deserves a hearing here because Gary Hamel does something revolutionary with the subject. He dismantles everything we have been taught on the issue and begins building again from the ground up (a perspective that really comes alive in the text).

His book, “The Future of Management,” is not about best business practices or the best use of traditional management styles – booooring. It is about being innovative and adaptable, instead of traditional, to keep pace with new technology and meet the changing demands of market morphings.

Gary’s writing is aimed mostly at commercial organizations but the principles are universal. They can be applied to any group of organized individuals: schools, government or even church, and the truth is, they all need to rethink how they operate.

Today’s world will be obsolete in a couple of years, at most, and for businesses to successfully survive the change – or anyone else for that matter - they will need to develop processes that are highly tuned to grass roots developments, in real time, and have the agility to respond as required. If these ideas leave you incredulous watch the video. Read more