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  1. Learner Guy

    Bought a huge house with a 3 car garage and a pool!

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    Congratulations! Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
  2. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Great, please point me at it when you get around to writing it!
  3. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Even if you're not going to post the question that's still unresolved, maybe you could post a bit about how you've gotten to the stage you have? I for one would be interested to read!
  4. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    iAmTrade, is there any need for such rudeness? Maybe you've seen a pattern with kelvinleang's posts, but if not, your post is unnecessarily obnoxious. kelvinleang, you will only be able to charge a premium price if you're delivering a premium service and can demonstrate that to your prospects...
  5. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Thanks ICK, that's thought provoking... I will see how I can arrange that. Although I have the ballpark income and net worth of a likely customer for this business, I'm not the target market in the sense that if I had landscaping work to do (which I do, in the next month or two) I'd hire a guy...
  6. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Thanks jazb, it's a good question. To my mind, it gets me $200K of assets (the price I could realise selling locally over the next month), plus a 1-2 year headstart on profits of $150K (which might not materialise at all for a startup).
  7. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Thanks for the feedback. This is a business with a good name in my town. I received and read Tony Bass' E-myth landscape contractor book yesterday. If I can invest $500K and make changes that mean that after six months I can take out $150K pre-tax every year, I'm happy. I'm just not quite sure I...
  8. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Thanks IGP. There is some variability in the profits year to year. It may be an unanswerable question, but I was hoping ICK would be able to give me an idea or two that would help me get a better handle on the likely impact of the improvements I'm making, rather than asking his opinion about...
  9. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    ICK, I am looking at a landscaping business to buy, and would really appreciate your thoughts. It's doing $2m in sales (only $150K as monthly maintenance - mostly one-time projects), $100-150K in pre-tax cashflow, and the owner is willing to stay in for up to 2 years. I'd use the first year to...
  10. Learner Guy

    Apartments Liquidated...

    REAL ESTATE 
    Congratulations... What are you going to put your money and energies into, instead?
  11. Learner Guy

    The habits you should have to live the good life

    MINDSET 
    In one go, or in sets? The first is close to impossible, the second still very challenging!
  12. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks, sounds great - where do I find the ebooks to buy?
  13. Learner Guy

    [Progress] #AndyTalks

    NOTABLE! 
    Perry Marshall is pretty impressive. All the best...
  14. Learner Guy

    How to go out of business

    Yep, I saw it being done to a disgusting degree when I was looking at shipping consolidation (for end users) a while ago.
  15. Learner Guy

    Bought a huge house with a 3 car garage and a pool!

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    LeftBench, Good on you for coming here and handling some pretty harsh criticisms. I think that says a lot about you. My take on what people are trying to get across is that you don't sound to have mastered your present situation, and so trying to magically leapfrog it... won't work. I've read...
  16. Learner Guy

    Is There Any Way To Change a Family Members Beliefs?

    PEOPLE 
    I don't get your meaning, Harti. I am not even the woman's son and I would definitely be 'afraid' (not quite the right word) of that set of circumstances. Longo, I don't have any good ideas for you I'm afraid. I suspect Matthew is right and there's not much you can do other than do keep your...
  17. Learner Guy

    How to go out of business

    Sad to see a fellow entrepreneur go bust, though. I must say I'd hate to be in a business where I could be slammed like this with online reviews, whether or not the dissatisfaction was warranted (I am not making a comment about yours, Clayton).
  18. Learner Guy

    Bouncing between ideas - Fear of success?

    IDEA MINDSET RANT 
    Crissco, you need to introduce some discipline and start a process that will help you brainstorm ideas and then pick one and then EXECUTE it. The Fastlane book is, of course, an ideal starting point and crystallises a lot of the best things I've learned from I hate to think how many other books...
  19. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    You've created a machine to influence the weather! There are people making money in landscaping, of course, like almost any field. I take your points about the non-Fastlane aspect, thanks. I may live to regret it, but I'm progressing things and will see if I can make a deal for it. Thanks...
  20. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    Yep, but at what rate of return? A few percent in a bank or similar is not enough to really move things along, and I've got my long-term picture fairly sorted. If I can get 20% on an investment of this size, I'll be pretty happy and the non-financial benefits are significant to me (can get some...
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