I often get asked about mailing the attorney if you don’t have the PR’s address.

In my opinion, mailing the attorney is a waste of time. Many years ago, I mailed them but I noticed I never (that means exactly 0 times) I never got a any response.

Since a good friend of mine is an attorney, I asked him one day why I wasn’t getting any answers from the PR’s that I mailed c/o the attorney.

He laughed and told me it was NOT to the attorneys advantage to forward my letter as it had the possibility of me solving one of the PR’s problems and that was the attorney’s job.

So here’s what I suggest instead.

Mail to the PR at the deceased address. Chances are the PR will be either picking up the mail or will be having it forwarded. Either way, they get the letter.

That takes care of that.

Ron

Sometimes I get the darndest questions!

Someone wrote the me other day and asked my where
I got the complimentary closing I use on many of
my emails.

Just in case you don’t recall, it says

“Be Happy, Take Chances, Live Life Fully!”

Well, Jim, I didn’t get it anywhere, I just
kinda “thunk it up” one day while I was daydreaming.

Jim went on to ask me about the “Be Happy” part.

He said that was easy for me to be happy because I
had the “stuff” that makes people happy…a great
marriage, good friends, a successful business, a nice
house, a new car and on and on.

When I wrote back to Jim, here’s what I had to say.

“I am happy because I choose to be happy!”

Yep, I believe happiness is a choice that each
of us makes daily.

I believe when you get up each morning you can
elect to dwell on your life challenges or you
can focus on the good stuff.

Either way, you get to choose.

You also get to choose your attitude for that
day……some choose happy, some choose not happy.

You see, I believe it’s not your circumstances that
make you happy or unhappy but merely how you elect
to react to those circumstances.

I’ll bet there’s not one of you reading this mail
that has not encountered a person with some sort
challenge, physical or mental, that appears very,
very happy….and you have silently wondered…..

“How can they be so happy?”

Let me give you an example of why I feel happiness
is a choice.

The other night, The Darling Bride, Sharon and I were
watching a TV show called “The Biggest Loser”.

Since I am pretty sure most of you know the premise,
I’ll not go into it.

At the end where they weigh to chart their progress,
one of the women lost 4 pounds for the week and she
decided to show her unhappiness at her…..

FABULOUS PROGRESS!

Now any of you who battles the bulge like I do,
knows that losing 4 pounds in one week is

FABULOUS PROGRESS!!!

But this lady elected to show anger instead of
gratitude.

Heck, I’d have been doing back flips over two pounds.

So why did this woman elect to be unhappy?

Because she was measuring her progress against a
preconceived notion or against someone else’s results.

She didn’t measure up to someone else’s standards.

Someone else thought she should have lost 10 pounds
so her measly 4 wasn’t good enough.

INCREDIBLE!

But you and I do the same thing all the time.

One of my friends, Kevin has a huge, huge online
business.

He makes more in one month that most families
make in two years.

Every once in a while, I’ll catch my self talk thinking
enviously about his business.

Then I slap my own face and remind myself I’m pretty
well off.

Stop whining Ronbo!

So what does this have to do with Real Estate
investing?

I think it has EVERYTHING to do with your long
term success or failure.

Here’s my thinking.

Each and everyone of you who have purchased some of
my materials has got the very same thing.

Most of you have read what you have received. (notice
I said “most”).

Some of you have gone back and read the material again.

Some of you have actually gone to the court house and
discovered what I told you is 100% correct.

Then some of those have actually started mailing letters
and following up with phone calls……and visiting PR’s
…..and making offers…. and buying houses…..and
finally

MAKING MONEY.

But some of you fell by the wayside somewhere along
the way. You gave up….maybe at step 1….maybe
at step 6. As a matter of fact, let’s change the word
“some” to “many”.

So for those of you who have abandoned this proven
strategy, I want you to ask yourself one question.

“Have I done this before?”

“Am I repeating a pattern?”

Have you started something before that you quickly gave
up on?

Does this look familiar?….Are you unhappy because
you didn’t achieve in the manner you (or someone else)
thought you should?

Are you electing to be unhappy because you have mailed
200 letters and you still don’t have a deal?

Who said 200 letters was the magic number?

That may be someone else’s idea not yours.

So let’s close this lengthy email before I have to
start labeling chapters. Ask you self one easy
question…..

How much would I be wiling to work in 2010 to make an
extra say,$10,000….how about $20,000 or even
$100,000 as one of my students did his first year.

But don’t measure yourself against anyone else.

If you made $40,000 last year, an extra $10K would be
a pretty big bonus, don’t you think?

Do you realize, if you only worked part time of 10 hours
per week and made $10K for the year, that would be a
heckofa part time job!

So I say again

“Be Happy, Take Chances, Live Life Fully!”

Now if I remember correctly, there’ a fancy
treadmill in the garage.

Guess I need one of them “Jillian’s” to yell
and berate me like she does on TV.

Maybe not, I don’t do so good with yellin’!

One of the best things about working in Probate
Real Estate is it’s simplicity. Probate is really,
really simple compared to other investing strategies
I know about.

http://BuyProbateProperty.com

Have you ever tried to put together a short sale?

What is that screaming sound I hear coming out of
Nancy in Florida?

She KNOWS what I’m talking about.

It may be called a “short sale” but trust me it’s
a “long, long list” of things you have to do to get
one done.

Probate doesn’t have loss mitigators.

It doesn’t require bpo’s.

We don’t have to have a stacking order.

All these are just parts of a short sale…..

and this is just the “short” list.

However, Probate does have one unique aspect.

You do have to keep track of the files and all
the letters you mail out.

When you get a call back from a PR saying, “You
still wanna buy my house?” and you don’t have a
clue as to who he is much less the estate he
represents, you could be in trouble.

Now some of you probably have a photographic
memory that remembers every PR you have ever mailed
to but for those of you who are like me and need
to consult your drivers license for the correct
spelling of your last name, you need to have some
way to find his file quickly.

” Hey Bubba, can I call you back tomorrow after I
search through the 147 files I’ve got here on my
desk?”

is not a professional response.

Trust me on this one, I speak from personal
experience.

So when I committed to provide you with
one tool per month to help you prosper with
your Probate RE investing career, creating a
data base for tracking cases was one of my ideas.

Unfortunately, I had one big hurdle to jump.

I can barely spell “data base” much less write one
…….thank you Mr. Gates or whoever, for spell
check!

And as some of you have astutely pointed out in
emails to me, sometimes I ain’t even the World’s
greatest speller!!!

So for me, creating a tracking system is right up
there with creating good tasting fat free pizza…..
way beyond my skill set.

But as I always do, I wrote down my goal of creating
a tracking system and as so often happens in Ron’s
world, the universe answered.

We’re almost done…..

or rather I should say, Chad’s almost done.

He and I have been sending emails back and forth now
for about a month, he creates and I comment from
the cheap seats….what a team!

Hopefully, we will have a working edition ready for
beta testing later this week or early next.

And guess who are going to be my testers?

Remember those seven who attended here in Portland
my first Probate Mastery Course two weeks ago?

Here’s an unadvertised bonus they’re going to
receive.

They’re all going to get a free copy of this new
product to test and keep.

And once we get all the bugs worked out, they’ll
get the “debugged” version also.

So just an extra little benefit that I plan on
giving to all of the attendees who’ve shown their
total commitment to their Probate investing.

Once it’s all said and done, I’ll let everyone
else know how you can get your very own copy.

Speaking of the Mastery Conference, this past
Saturday, I announced the details for our second
one.

If you missed the call, here’s how you can listen
to the replay.

Click on the link below. When the page opens,
you will see a box on the lower right hand side,
“Listen to Recordings”.

Click on that box and fill out the four lines.
When you are asked the conference code, fill in
171942.

The recording you want to listen to is Mastery
Conference #2.

http://Freeconferencecalling.com

And yes, you still can get the airfare credit,
just call The Darling Bride, Sharon and she’ll
fix you up.

503.746.5837

Got to go!

I’m lookin for my drivers license so I can sign
this mail…can’t seem to remember whether Mead
has an e on the end or not!

Oh well, just Ron will do!