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Lou Gimbutis, Metrolina REIA

Recent Articles from Lou Gimbutis, Metrolina REIA

Investor's Corner March 17, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: When you take away Free Markets, you create Black Markets

The above is a quote from Winston Churchill, and is every bit as true today as it was well over half a century ago when he said it.  Please allow […]

Investor's Corner March 16, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Power or Indignation

Indignant is not a very strong adjective. True, it hits much harder than its perfumed and delicate cousin petulance, but carries nowhere near the weight of its 3 elder brothers- […]

Investor's Corner February 12, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: Don’t Squander Your Most Precious Resource

As Real Estate Investors, we are largely independent of the direction and supervision most employees receive, and thus the temptation to misuse time until such misuse has become a habit […]

Investor's Corner February 4, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: That’s Not Funny!

Did you ever notice that some of the very funniest things we have as memories and to tell stories about were not the least bit funny at the time the […]

Investor's Corner January 16, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Power or Indignation

Indignant is not a very strong adjective.  True, it hits much harder than its perfumed and delicate cousin petulance, but carries nowhere near the weight of its 3 elder brothers- […]

Investor's Corner January 13, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: Best Day of the Year to Buy a Home

Many of us have vague notions (mostly secondhand, or worse, so dislocated from the source that we cannot begin to gauge their authenticity) of the best time of year to […]

Investor's Corner January 6, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: Be A “Don’t-Wanter” of the Deal

I’ve been involved in a lot of negotiations, and read a lot of books on the subject.  There is a basic principal of negotiation that is fundamental- that is- below […]

Investor's Corner January 2, 2020

INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Vocabulary of Real Estate Investing: Part 3

Here are two more words instrumental to a sound grasp of the principles that will speed you along your journey to success in Real Estate Investing: Equity– most of us […]

Investor's Corner December 26, 2019

INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Vocabulary of Real Estate Investing

Much as with any highly specialized field of endeavor, R/E investing has a language of its own.  A firm grounding in some of the more important terms can help you […]

Investor's Corner December 9, 2019

INVESTORS’ CORNER: On the Shoulders of Giants

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”.  Sir Isaac Newton The Charlotte Real community has suffered a great loss with the passing of […]

Investor's Corner November 12, 2019

INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Funniest Thing a Tenant Ever did to Me

Have you ever noticed that the very funniest stories that we have to tell were not in the least bit funny at the time the events occurred.  It seems that […]

Investor's Corner November 6, 2019

INVESTORS’ CORNER: Mexican Boy Glues Self to Bed to Avoid School

But what, you may ask; does this recalcitrant youth’s behavior have to do with real estate investing? Nothing in some ways, and in some ways- everything.  (By the way, to […]

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