Part of the service you will be providing is to steer your clients into the appropriate financing package that will allow them to buy even when the market is soft and there isn”t much money around. A good agent will be able to help a buyer decide whether they want a 15 year mortgage or 30 year mortgage. You will need to be able to talk ‘finance’ as well as ‘real estate’.
Use a piece of tin or masonite for a cutout pattern; holes in it to mark places to drill. Work out a production schedule for steps that take time, such as glue setting and paint drying — where you take an item from the clamps, sand it lightly, lay it out for the painting phase and immediately place another item (or sets of items) the available glue clamps.
before ordering your initial supplies (other than samples to decide on what things you will carry); call on several merchants in your proposed route area to ‘test the waters.’
Take a look at the type of people that are at the meet. Talk to booth sellers and find out how much they sell. If others make a profit, you can too. What things sell best?
Photographs can also be copied to videotape in a similar way. By copying photographs to videotape, you cut your storage needs and you greatly increase the convenience of viewing the pictures. You can also make as many copies as you want, so that the loss of a tape isn”t a tragic loss of family history, as it might be with asingle photograph. A typical videotape can hold two hundred or more slides showing for five to ten seconds each. You can tailor the timing to the customer”s desires.
A genuine antique must be at least one hundred years old. But period pieces can be very valuable if you know how to recognize them. Get to know what things are worth. You have to be able to tell the difference between value and junk.
* Finding new clients for professionals, especially dentists, doctors and lawyers. Professionals compete heavily for clients in each specific region. If you can help your local doctor increase his patient load, you can collect a fee for each patient found.
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Some of the more fascinating — and potentially dangerous — real estate investments involve raw land and subdivision lots. Each has its potential for profit, but each also has pitfalls which can quickly sink any chance for a return on your money.
It”s important that you make regular rounds, calling on the same houses regularly. After about six months of this, you”ll be ready to open a local recycling depot.