Archive for Round Table Conversation

It All Starts Somewhere .. The Question Is When?

I recently had to teach my son how to drive. He has never driven a car before, and he has only sat in either the passenger seat, or in the back seat.  He has probably fantasized about being able to drive, and how and what it will be like when he is able to come [...]

Posted by: admin on Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Nothing Beats the McCoy

     In the business I have decided to master, there is a lot of talking, contemplating and analyzing going on before someone makes a decision to do anything. The average investor is paralyzed by fear well before anything good or bad can happen. In the world I live in, I hear those dreaded word “If”, [...]

Posted by: admin on Monday, May 5th, 2008

To Be Or Not To Be Is Truly Up To Me

I was asleep and this topic came to me, I was tossing and tuning and my wife was getting frustrated about me not being able to sleep. I told her I had something I needed to write down before I could rest well. Well it really just dawned on me, that my success and lack [...]

Posted by: admin on Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Why Should You Create Your Own Personal Economy?

So there is a 50 / 50 chance that the economy is going to be good or that it is going to be bad. For most people that is a really big problem. Because as the Nation’s economy goes so does their personal economy go. Up goes the economy, up goes their paycheck; down goes [...]

Posted by: admin on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

What’s Your Magic Number?

This is a difficult question for most to answer, why you might ask.  This is not a question you hear daily; it is almost taboo to ask someone what’s your magic number.    This would be a strange question from a perspective employer, or someone that you are not acquainted with, but should it be.  
We are [...]

Posted by: admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Be Afraid Be Very Afraid

Should you be afraid of the massive collapse of the 5th largest investment firms in the world? If I were you I would be, this is just the tip of the iceberg, now there are concerns about Lehman Bros (#4) it seems as if only the strong will survive.  This should be a wake-up call [...]

Posted by: dscruggs on Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Will Social Security be the Security Blanket our parents have?

I recently read an article about the dire straights of the current Social Security System, how does 11 Trillion dollars sound.  Well that is the consensus from our great leaders, George Bush and Dick Cheney both agree that “Social Security is headed toward Bankruptcy” that does not sound good to me. The $1,000,000.00 question is [...]

Posted by: admin on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The Power To Be Free - Darrick Scruggs, CEO - introduction

Introduction to www.thepowertobefree.com Michigan Based Commercial Real Estate Investment Club. Darrick Scruggs - one of the founders of The Power To Be Free , the real estate investor with over 10 years of experience in investing in SFH and apartment buildings gives a brief introduction about himself and the club.

Posted by: dscruggs on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

How Early Success can be the your downfall

        In life we usually take what is the easiest for granted, well your early success can be your greatest downfall.  If we are honest most people take what is easy for granted, I have heard it over and over again, man he seems like a natural or that was not that difficult for me [...]

Posted by: admin on Sunday, January 27th, 2008

An additional 24 hours to accomplish something in 2008!

A leap year is a year with one extra day inserted into February, the leap year is 366 days with 29 days in February as opposed to the normal 28 days. (There are a few past exceptions to this)

         A leap year is special, it only happens every 4 years and there are certain years [...]

Posted by: admin on Sunday, January 27th, 2008