Great post Doug…really great post Doug… - Posted by Brad N
Posted by Brad N on September 23, 2003 at 20:25:09:
Back in 2001, I repsonded to the post of yours below. You can check out the archives. It is great to see that you still have the same disdain for Realtors that you had when you claimed you didn’t know squat - just two years ago. My guess is that you still don’t know squat, and you probably haven’t done squat in terms of deals.
My advice to newbies is this - there is a ton of great, informative posts on this site from folks who know what they are talking about. Take what everyone says with a healthy grain of salt. Egging on adversarial relationships with anyone is a sign of amateurism.
Good luck to everyone. And congrats to JP for continuing to have a great site. I hadn’t been here in a long while, and with the exception of Doug’s posts, it still looks great.
Thanks,
Brad N
Eastern Pa
As many of the seasoned investors here have no doubt realized, along with anyone who I’ve told the truth to, know. I’m a total fraud, scamp, loser and yes, a$$hole too.
I’ve studied real estate investing for 4 years (give or take) and in all that time I’ve never succeeded in doing even one lousy deal. Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, I did manage to arrange a lease/option agreement between my dad and a guy that owed him money (who happened to have a 3br condo he couldn’t afford.) But I made no money from that deal. Oh, and there was that other house that my dad bought, thanks to my encouragement, but nothing more. In all honesty, I didn’t really have anything to do with it beyond looking at some places with him in that particular town.
What else? OH… all the ‘advice’ I’ve handed out to newbies and experienced alike, has been no more than the best I understood of what OTHER people were doing. I have no real experience, beyond being jeered at by sellers, agents, lawyers and so on.
Ummm, well. I don’t know what else to say, I mean the above pretty much says it all doesn’t it? I’m a liar, I’m full of s***, and you have every right to tell me so to my face.
I’d like to apologize to Steve Cook and Ed Copp in particular, for running RE agents down while the two of you successfully work with them and are one of them, respectively.
I also apologize to all of the newbies for the comments and suggestions I’ve made to MANY of you. You’d probably do well not to listen to any of it.
And I apologize to JP for bringing a mockery to her site. You’ve obviously worked long and hard to develop the premier CREI site on the internet, and you deserve not to have beatniks prancing around your forums.
I’m sorry to everyone for speaking beyond my experience, and lying about who and what I am.
Despite all of this, I’m not going to scurry off into the darkness, and I’m not going to give up, because that would just prove that I’m as worthless as I have acted and I refuse to believe that I can’t change.
Well, ahh, thanks for listening.
Doug
PS: I’d just like to confirm that this really IS Doug Pretorius/Doug (ON). JP can probably authenticate that fact with the IP log