John Ropp's (johnropp) Blog

I am sure most of you have had the pleasure of reading the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" sometime in your life/career. I have just finished the book and came away with many new perspectives on investing, personal finances, assets and liabilities, and minding my own business. Here is a short bit from c...

I receive the Broker Agent News every week via email and read most of the headline articles. This one is very interesting, especially because I am an active Broker and real estate is my livelyhood. This can potentially hit home for most of us in the bsuiness. Along with the way the mortgage indus...

I had a great friend in the industry forward this interesting article to me today. It hits home with the way the current mortgage situation is right now. It is straight from the pages of CNN Money.com. I hope you take the time to read it. If you have any questions please call me anytime. John Rop...

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I was reading an interesting article today on Realtors who hold the GRI designation. This article can be found on the National Association of Realtors website. I find this interesting because I am in the process of earning my GRI designation and wanted to provide valuable information to the publi...

I read an interesting article today that I wanted to share with my friends and others in the general public.  It talks about the real estate designation GRI which stands for graduate of the real estate institute.  You see, I am in the process of gaining this designation, I should have it by Novem...

Well we made it in the August 2007 issue of Outside magazine's best towns of 2007! Bend, Oregon with a population close to 80,000 actual, Outside gave us 67,152. An average commute time of just 16 minutes, my commute is more like 5 minutes. A median income of $29,853 and median home price of $351...

Have you ever had the need to get into the great outdoors?  Well for most of us the answer is yes!  Especially for those of us with professional-esque jobs, looking out the window of our cubicles and yearning for the clock to hit 5pm.  Well here in Central Oregon we are blessed with one of the be...

The purpose of this article is to give a friendly whack upside the head to people who own rental property.  You probably made a good investment when you first bought the property.  But have you owned it too long?Depending on how long you've held your property, it might not be a good investment an...

Realtors are not only the least understood, but also quite possibly the least sane of all professionals.  What other professional would work for months, sometimes years with no guarantee of receiving a paycheck?  Sounds a little crazy doesn't it?  What are the chances that you'd be willing to do ...