what are the best deals you've ever negotiated?
$Zero
either in terms of greatest savings, greatest gains, least cost, most
satisfying, most interesting, whatever.
-$Zero...
Poliwood Wags The Fog
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Mark
I'd say it's a tie between:
a. convincing the chairman of the bank and head of the
Georgia Republican party to fly to Washington, D.C.
and within 3 days bring me a Small Business Admin.
check for 350 thousand dollars, (a lot of money in 1984)
or probably my favorite deal:
b. when I located the multiple, out-of-state, owners of adjoining
properties and convinced them all to sell me their tracts of
land for a value which I assigned, and then upon agreement,
found a local buyer to pay me 5 times what they were going
to sell it to me for.
Now here's the best part, then, once I'd gotten full committment
from all parties, I actually told the land owners that I was going
to sell a fraction of the land as soon as it was mine, and I told
the new buyer that I actually didn't own all the land yet and he
said no problem...
So then upon talking to each partie's attorneys, I was advised that
we should just make it a JOIN CLOSING for everyone, and even
better, to transfer a portion of the property directly from the
original
owners to my new buyer, thereby I avoided any tax liability. So,
at closing time:
1. I didn't have an attorney, but the other 2 parties did, and they
paid for the closing.
2. The new buyer submitted a fat check to the property owners
at closing time, and received a fraction of the real estate, and
the remainder of the land was transferred to me for free, along
with another check.
This lake property is now worth approximately 900 thousand dollars.
I basically got it for free.
---
Mark
Creative Genius
$Zero
> On Nov 11, 11:14 am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > what are the best deals you've ever negotiated?
>
> > either in terms of greatest savings, greatest gains, least cost,
> > most satisfying, most interesting, whatever.
>
> > -$Zero...
>
> > Poliwood Wags The Fog
> > http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/50b2f0625cfbef36
>
> I'd say it's a tie between:
>
> a. convincing the chairman of the bank and head of the
> Georgia Republican party to fly to Washington, D.C.
> and within 3 days bring me a Small Business Admin.
> check for 350 thousand dollars, (a lot of money in 1984)
i've gotten more with much less.
> or probably my favorite deal:
>
> b. when I located the multiple, out-of-state, owners of adjoining
> properties and convinced them all to sell me their tracts of
> land for a value which I assigned, and then upon agreement,
> found a local buyer to pay me 5 times what they were going
> to sell it to me for.
>
> Now here's the best part, then, once I'd gotten full committment
> from all parties, I actually told the land owners that I was going
> to sell a fraction of the land as soon as it was mine, and I told
> the new buyer that I actually didn't own all the land yet and he
> said no problem...
>
> So then upon talking to each partie's attorneys, I was advised that
> we should just make it a JOIN CLOSING for everyone, and even
> better, to transfer a portion of the property directly from the
> original owners to my new buyer, thereby I avoided any tax liability.
> So, at closing time:
>
> 1. I didn't have an attorney, but the other 2 parties did, and they
> paid for the closing.
>
> 2. The new buyer submitted a fat check to the property owners
> at closing time, and received a fraction of the real estate, and
> the remainder of the land was transferred to me for free, along
> with another check.
>
> This lake property is now worth approximately 900 thousand dollars.
>
> I basically got it for free.
nice going.
> ---
> Mark
> Creative Genius
what did you create?
nothing.
you played a real estate shell game, genius.
-$Zero...
post the first things that come to your mind.
then give it some thought and answer again.
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Mark
It wasn't a shell game. I recognized what I wanted, and how
to provide a service to others. There were hundreds of hours
of clever conversations to make this happen. It wasn't easy.
If it was, everyone could do it.
Oh, that's not what makes me a creative genius.
Although it was very creative.
Nor was it when I founded a school of the arts in my
name, with dance, drama, music and fine arts, which
included ballet, modern dance, pointe, piano, guitar,
violin, acting, oil painting and graphic art. Yes the
Academy was an act of genius, and also made me
bundle.
But what makes me a creative genius, is this;
First the teachers picked up on it, and I became a
matter of academic discussion. Then they submitted
me to a battery of testing. I was asked to submit samples
of my artwork and my writings were passed around and
examined. At some point I had passed the county and
district levels, and eventually my parents took me to the
state capital, whereby I went through further interviews.
Finally a large envelope came to my home informing my
family that I was a state winner, beating out thousands
of other students, and would live on a college campus
for the summer in an accelerated program for gifted
people.
Later when I asked our school counselor if I was really
different, she said, Yes, "You're a creative genius."
That was when the notion was first suggested to me.
I am currently shopping for a new airplane.
So, who told you?
----
Mark
$Zero
that's exactly what it was.
just another game of hide the pea.
> I recognized what I wanted,
no doubt.
> and how to provide a service to others.
the marks.
service provided?
"hey, you finally get the pea!"
> There were hundreds of hours of clever
> conversations to make this happen.
also known as shuffling the shells around the table.
> It wasn't easy.
practice makes perfect.
> If it was, everyone could do it.
almost everyone _could_ do it.
provided they were privy to the existence of the various peas.
and that they had enough shells to shuffle around the table in front
of the various marks.
and they were willing to invest the time on such speculation.
> Oh, that's not what makes me a creative genius.
> Although it was very creative.
it may have included some "creative" thinking, and it might have
included some "creative" shell-shuffling, but you didn't _create_
anything.
except marks with empty wallets, that is.
> Nor was it when I founded a school of the arts
> in my name,
"in my name"
indicative.
> with dance, drama, music and fine arts, which
> included ballet, modern dance, pointe, piano, guitar,
> violin, acting, oil painting and graphic art.
kudos for spreading the arts around, Dude.
> Yes the Academy was an act of genius,
mmmmmmm, no.
> and also made me bundle.
only by accident, surely.
> But what makes me a creative genius, is this;
>
> First the teachers picked up on it, and I became a
> matter of academic discussion. Then they submitted
> me to a battery of testing. I was asked to submit samples
> of my artwork and my writings were passed around and
> examined.
sketches of real estate shell games, no doubt.
> At some point I had passed the county and
> district levels, and eventually my parents took me to the
> state capital, whereby I went through further interviews.
oh boy. too bad those interviews aren't available on youtube.
i'm sure they'd be quite the hoot.
> Finally a large envelope came to my home informing my
> family that I was a state winner, beating out thousands
> of other students, and would live on a college campus
> for the summer in an accelerated program for gifted
> people.
"gifted people"
> Later when I asked our school counselor if I was really
> different, she said, Yes, "You're a creative genius."
naturally.
> That was when the notion was first suggested to me.
did you then look it up in the dictionary?
> I am currently shopping for a new airplane.
what kind of wheels?
> So, who told you?
nearly everyone.
teachers, friends, family, giddy investors rubbing their hands
together over the prospect of getting a piece of me, etc..
but none of that convinced me in the least bit.
in fact, all of that was pretty much irrelevant.
what convinces me is my endless creative genius output.
-$Zero...
yeppers. not greedy at all.
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Grand Mal
"$Zero" <zero...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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"gifted people"
naturally.
what kind of wheels?
> So, who told you?
nearly everyone.
-$Zero...
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You have to understand that where he is the 'gifted people' are the ones
with no spelling errors on their mailboxes.