Gregg's Blog

Brick Walls are there for a Reason - Earlier this summer I traveled to Tampa for a meeting with the other franchise owners for Engel and Voelkers. We all had dinner just down the street from the Tampa Engel and Voelkers Shop. It was motivational for me to be around other like minded entrepreneurs...

Sometimes we think we are stepping towards a goal - but we are just dancing to a tune. I was sitting in a crowded doctor's waiting room on Monday. There was not a seat to be had. I was sitting with my back to the wall, facing the receptionist window.  The receptionist was starting to be approache...

The Informational Salesman  I have been shopping for a car lately. What an education! And I don't mean about cars, I mean about car salesmen. It certainly is not easy finding a knowledgeable salesman; a salesman that knows his product as well as the competition.   I want my job of shopping for a ...

Find Your Own Cat Pee Years ago, when I first started looking for homes to renovate and either rent out or resell, I would tell my agent to find me homes that had cat pee on the carpet. You see, I liked homes that smelled bad, were closed up and hot, and had lots of garbage all over the place. I ...

Last week one of my clients told me that he would like to raise some cash to pay his impending federal tax bill. He owns quite a few properties - most are income producing, some land, some warehouses, some offices - and all very marketable.  This gentleman is a very logical seller (and logical bu...

Love is the Killer App   A while ago I was given a gift by Madeline Denison, a Naples Realtor with  Amerivest.  She sent me the book, LOVE IS THE KILLER APP by Tim Sanders, and thanked me for sharing information in my column over the last three years.  Tim Sanders is very inspirational. I read hi...

  Summer is supposed to be slow;   at least in Fort Myers. It's hot and humid and I can't even bend over and tie my shoes without dripping sweat on the laces.  Floridians head to North Carolina or other places cooler up north, but  the tourists head to the beach and are easily recognized by the l...

I had dinner the other night with about a dozen real estate investors, builders, speculators, and otherwise smart men. We try to get together every few months to network, compare strategies, and have a few laughs.  Most of us were not laughing last week.  Business, in a word, is terrible.  Most o...

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX I have heard the term for years. I am sure you have too. It's one of those catch phrases that consultants use. To me the expression means to look at something from outside your current realm of influence. For the past hour, before I started writing this missive, I went Yahoo...

Projects in Downtown Fort Myers Feb 2008 Last night Gail and I joined my brother and his wife Dot in downtown Fort Myers for drinks at the Sky Bar overlooking the Eddie Money Concert at Saturdays' Light up the Town Block Party. We started at The Bar Association, had an appetizer of Drunk Shrimp, ...