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I W ish Someone Had

Told Me These Things

I don ’ t know how old you are, so it ’ s possible that you ’ ve never been to
a movie with an intermission. Gone With the Wind had one. During an
intermission, you would get up, stretch, and freshen up before sitting
down to finish the movie. Well, we ’ re taking a small intermission now,

because you look like you need it.
I ’ ve been grinding a lot of information into your head about the pre-
cise steps you should take to invest in commercial real estate the smart
way. Sometimes it ’ s possible to get so far into the details that you lose
track of some of the big - picture principles.
In this chapter I want to take you through a journey of some of the
lessons I have learned from many hundreds of real estate deals. I dis-
covered some of them in the nick of time. Others I learned the hard
way, and they cost me a great deal of money — in fact, more than a
four - year Ivy League education. You get them handed to you, you
lucky dog.

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