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One of the big topics of late in the real estate appraisal and lending industries is the proliferation of appraisal waivers and the recent announcement that there are likely to be more loans eligible for waivers in the future as they’re increasing the loan to value eligibility...
Times are tough for many. Headlines are filled with negativity and foreboding. Things are changing at a pace never before seen in almost every industry and many are struggling to cope with that change. It doesn’t seem to matter if you’re in the tech industry, a middle manager for...
Are you a generalist or a specialist? Do you do what everyone else in your industry does, maybe just with a little different flair, or so you think, or are you someone who truly stands out in a crowded and noisy marketplace because of who you are, the unique set of problems you’ve chosen...
I have some questions for you:
Do you consider yourself to be an expert? If so, how did you become an expert? How long did it take you and what did it cost you? Not just in actual dollars, but how much did it cost you in time and effort on your way to becoming an expert? How would you define...
Results! That’s the standard the world uses to judge almost everything. In business, especially, the only thing that really matters is how much money ends up in the coffers after all the bills are paid. Of course, you and I know that's not ALL that matters, but the results of our...
Say the word ‘success’, and what comes to your mind? We all have our own ideas about and definitions of success. Yes, there is a definition in the dictionary (the accomplishment of an aim or a principle), but we all think slightly differently about the word success and it is...
If I told you that you every business only has four things that need to be focused on for it to be successful, I’m assuming every reasonable person would want to know what those four things are. We’ve talked many times on this show about all four of these things in great detail and...
If someone had told me 20 years ago to start branding myself and that the payoff would be exponentially greater than any branding I might do for my business, I’m not sure I would’ve bought in. However, 20 years later, not only do I get it completely, I’m all in and hoping I...
If a stranger had walked up to me on the street when I was 19 or 20 years old and said, “Blaine, these are the only 5 questions you’ll ever need to ask and answer for yourself if you want to lead a fulfilling and meaningful life”, I’m not exactly sure what I...
One of the most valuable lessons I ever learned in life is that the quality of your questions determines the quality of the answers and outcomes. There is most definitely a correlation between asking good questions and getting better answers, and there is also a correlation between asking the...
You know what they say about opinions; they’re like (insert body part), everybody’s got one. And it’s true, unless the middle part of your brain has been damaged or removed, we all have opinions about certain things. Opinions are good, they’re healthy, until, of course,...
Since around the age of 16, I have been something of a collector. No, not comic books, not trinkets, not baubles, not those silly plates from boardwalk tourist shops. No, what I started collecting almost 36 years ago was advice. Advice that I thought was the best advice for a young kid who...
