Chapter
19
Mistakes
7 of
our most costly and crucial mistakes. 7 mistakes you don’t
want to make.
"MISTAKES
WE MADE AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT THEM.
Well, not to sound like a smart ass, but if you read this book
from front to back your going to prevent about 1000 mistakes.
Money saving mistakes, time saving mistakes, financing mistakes,
etc. That’s right, you name the category and we made the
mistake! It’s not that we were two idiots, its just that
we didn’t have any experience. That’s what this book
is all about, an experience in the world of Section Eight Housing.
Nick and I lived it..."
"I’ve
heard people in this field say the experience of being a section
8 landlord is something you can’t prepare for, you have
to figure out and solve the problems as they come at you. My answer
to that comment would be, “Bullshit”! Had I bought
a copy of
this book about 8 years ago I would have saved myself hundreds
of thousands of dollars, about 10,000 hours of time and at least
1 million headaches!..."
"We
learned by trial and error. At the time, there was no other way.
We asked a ton of questions and came up with a ton of great ideas.
If an idea worked, we added it to our repertoire and repeated
it as much as possible. If it didn’t, we scrapped it and
tried something else. Never after trying something that didn’t
work did we think we failed. We went by Ben Franklin’s motto,
“I never failed, I just found 10,000 ways that didn’t
work.”..."
"They
say you learn from your mistakes, but be smart, learn from someone
else’s mistakes, Mike and Nick’s! Eight years worth
of mistakes wrapped up in one book..."
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