Category: General

How to write a business plan for real estate investors »

Have you ever gotten caught up in the hype of compiling a complicated business plan with detailed pie charts, excel spreadsheets etc?
I recently had a fellow investor ask me to finance his latest real estate business venture AND as a “selling point”, he told me he had put together a business plan! Excellent I said, [...]

The Big Fall in Indy »

Just a little update on my Indy adventures…
Combine melted snow, a vacant house and tile and you get a YouTube classic:

Quick Case Study: How I Lost A $100,000 Deal »

We had a saying when I was 10 year old playing outfield in baseball. Our coach, would gather us around with a blade of grass sticking out of his mouth like a toothpick and he would say,
“Men, when you snooze, you lose”.
Of course he was referring to one of us who was picking dandelions [...]

How to wholesale crappy houses »

Craig Fuhr, a successful investor in Baltimore, MD and I got together to check out some potential leads in Indianapolis. It became apparent after a couple hours that the properties we were investigating were in border line neighborhoods (i.e. crap real estate). Stuff was worth $1-5k at most. I encounter this everyday in Detroit but [...]

Welcome world! »

Welcome world! The BobNorton.com Blog is finally here. Before I share with you what this blog is going to be all about, I need to get something out in the open:

I am a house addict.
Well, maybe I’m not that type of “HOUSE” addict! (My brother loves this show and it would be safe to say [...]