by Terry Moore, CCIM | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
When the applause, and recognition come, are you arrogant or humble? There are times in life when you will choose well. Your effective, faithful, and wise actions will produce great success. Then what? We hear a lot about being a “good loser,” but what about being a...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Feb 20, 2020 | Building Wealth
Dr. Richard Wiseman is a professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. For over a decade he conducted interviews and experiments to determine why some people seem luckier than others. Here’s what he found. The findings have...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Feb 13, 2020 | Apartment Investing
Should you “Just win, baby?” America is a competitive culture. Libraries have been written about how to gain and maintain competitive advantage. How you gain competitive advantage matters. This post shares five reflections on the consequences of how you gain that...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Feb 6, 2020 | Apartment Investing
I’ve been reading Adam Grant’s marvelous book, Give and Take, Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. The book is worth your time, and its conclusions have pleasantly surprised millions of readers. Adam Grant contends that some people are naturally takers. They’re the...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jan 30, 2020 | Apartment Investing
Is there a recession coming? Of course. Good times are always followed by hard times. The more important question is “When will the next recession come?” That, my friend, is a matter of prediction. Human beings, even experts, are very bad at prediction. You don’t have...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jan 23, 2020 | Apartment Investing
Rental ownership is face-to-face capitalism. It’s hands-on. When you own shares in a large corporation, you don’t get a say in how that company is run. When you own rental property, you make decisions that affect your income stream and the value of your asset. Good...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jan 10, 2020 | Apartment Investing
“What I find so striking today is not that people dismiss expertise, but that they do so with such frequency, on so many issues, and with such anger.” ~ Tom Nichols writing in The Death of Expertise That sentiment scares me. In the public sphere, experts...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jan 2, 2020 | Apartment Investing
Many people love New Year’s. Many write out resolutions and set goals. Most of us hope for a better future. Since many people are talking about the new and the future at this time of year, you need to pause for a minute. Dr. Michael LeBoeuf reminds us that, “The great...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Dec 19, 2019 | Apartment Investing
When you were a newly minted high school graduate, you didn’t know what all the work possibilities and realities were. During college, you may have changed your major more than once as you learned more about yourself and the possibilities. When you got into the work...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Dec 12, 2019 | Apartment Investing
Do you prefer steak or pizza? Don’t answer too quickly. You probably don’t always prefer steak to pizza or vice versa. If you’re having friends over on Sunday afternoon to watch football, pizza might be the choice. You probably wouldn’t choose it for an important...
