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This might seem counterintuitive, but when your business is growing and you are finding new clients, that’s the best time to start dabbling in a new side hustle apart from appraisal. In some cases, when you find appraisers moonlighting (having a second job), there’s a correlation to their current jo...
As an entrepreneur in your business, you are wired to seek and get excited about opportunities. New people, new options, a new environment, or a new place all present a wide variety of possibilities. You want to take advantage of the things that will help your business excel and leave by the waysid...
You may have heard that you can’t have opinions about the color of a room or shaggy carpet as you’re doing your job and walking through homes… that’s dead wrong. If orange shag carpet can make a difference in value and you can support that in the marketplace, you not only can, but you have an obliga...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, my daughter was doing some volunteer work in South America, helping people who have been rescued from the human trafficking industry. She was down there for about a year, and my wife and I had traveled down to visit her. Just as we were leaving, the pandemic went ...
A little over a year ago, I went on a vacation with my family to Glacier National Park. While we were there, we took everyone on a hike to St. Mary’s Falls. St Mary’s is a gorgeous waterfall in Glacier, formed by glacial runoff. About halfway into the hike, there’s a bridge that crosses the river. O...
A couple years ago, I went out and bought a new camping trailer. This trailer, like many other recreational 5th wheels, has a battery that powers it. But this battery isn’t like the battery that you would find in a car, motorcycle, snowmobile, or even a flashlight. This battery is called a deep-cycl...