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For real estate investors it has become critically important to differentiate between being an “investor” and a “dealer”, especially after the Clinton Tax Act. A commercial real estate developer who buys large tracts of land, subdivides them and sells individual lots would be considered a dealer in most cases.

If you are marked as a real estate dealer for tax purposes, you will be taxed (up to 39.6%) on the full gain on a piece of property up front when the property is sold. You also lose the tax advantages of the installment sale when you sell real estate.

As an investor, you could be taxed as little as 28% under the capital gain tax laws for the same transaction. Until recently the tax difference between being a dealer (31%) and an investor (28%) was minimal. The Clinton Tax Act changed all of that by increasing the possible spread to 11.6%.

An 11.6% additional tax on a $250,000 real estate transaction equates to $29,000 of extra tax on the same transaction, all because you’re considered a dealer. For the average real estate investor, the dilemma is how to avoid being marked as a real estate dealer by the IRS.

Real estate investors do (and should do) everything possible to avoid being tagged with dealer status. There are many schools of thought on what warrants a dealer in the eyes of the IRS and what type of deals triggers the IRS to call you a dealer. Unfortunately, there is no singe answer to the question of how to avoid dealer status.

If you routinely develop, subdivide, market and sell large tracks of land, you will likely be tagged as a dealer. The real debate lies with real estate investors who routinely flip houses. How many deals per year are too many to be considered an investor by the IRS?

If you’re flipping (buying and selling in 12 months or less) 1 to 5 houses per year you probably have little to worry about if you keep a low profile. Especially if you keep a few houses here and there as rentals so you can show rental income on your tax returns.

Once your real estate investing business progresses to the point where you’re flipping 20+ houses per year you’re in danger of being tagged with dealer status. It’s a good idea to keep a few properties every year as rentals or lease/options to show passive real estate income on your taxes. If the IRS sees huge capital gains from multiple deals with no passive rental income you will raise your visibility and increase the danger of acquiring dealer status.

If you have one business that flips a large quantity of houses or develops tracts of land, you may want to shelter it in another entity from your passive investment business. Being tagged as a real estate dealer is never beneficial and you want to do whatever’s possible to maintain your real estate investor status.

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As you get ready to start your own cleaning business there are literally hundreds of things you have to do - from buying supplies to figuring out your accounting system to finding customers. Your first year in business is full of excitement, but can also bring about a steep learning curve. You can be a step ahead of the game by avoiding these seven common business mistakes.

Mistake 1: Thinking all you need is energy and determination to succeed. You often hear that entrepreneurs need a “fire in the belly” to get a business off and running. It’s true, you’ll be much happier if you’re passionate about your business, but passion alone isn’t going to pay your bills. You need much more than that - you need a plan. Thoroughly research your market and write a business plan and marketing plan. It doesn’t have to be a huge, overwhelming project, but it forces you to take a good, hard look at your business and what you’re trying to accomplish. Consider it a road map for your business success.

Mistake 2: Under pricing your services. Many start-up business owners believe they can undercut their competitors and “steal” customers away. Pricing your services below market value only costs you money and eats away at your profits. Eventually you’ll resent the fact that you’re working so hard for very little income. Carefully calculate how you need to price your janitorial services so you cover all of your costs and still make a profit. And price your services based on the value you offer your customers.

Mistake 3: Living off adrenaline. Entrepreneurs tend to live off the rush they get from sweating out the details of how to make a business work. That’s not why you are starting your cleaning business. Your overall purpose is to make money. If you need a rush to get out of bed in the morning, make your coffee stronger.

Mistake 4: Not knowing anything about marketing. Many new business owners fail to budget or make any plans to market their services. Some business owners even confuse marketing with sales. Sales are deals you close during the day. Marketing is doing everything you can to get the word out about your cleaning business.

Mistake 5: Being your employee’s best friend instead of the boss. At the start of a business, everyone involved is working several different jobs and perhaps even working seven days a week. Many problems are fixed on the fly. Eventually things settle down and you develop a system for assigning jobs and taking care of problems. You can avoid this common mistake by making sure that you have employment policies set up before opening the doors to your cleaning business. This will avoid legal problems and low employee morale. Remember, you are the boss and you set the pace. Have a company handbook and make sure your employees follow the rules. If you don’t have any rules your business will suffer.

Mistake 6: Quickly spending your capital. Most business owners will underestimate the amount of money they need to get their business up and running. Your janitorial business needs more than just cleaning equipment and supplies. You’ll need office supplies, phone services, vehicles (or money for mileage expenses), uniforms, marketing materials (brochures, business cards, etc.), insurance, and professionals (lawyer, accountant) to get your business off on the right foot. As a cleaning business, you will most likely bill at the end of the month and on top of that, some customers may drag their feet when paying their invoice. That means that you’ll be providing cleaning services well before you receive any payment so you need to have cash on hand to pay the bills. Develop a personal and business budget that can sustain your company and then add at least 50 percent to cover unforeseen expenses.

Mistake 7: Forgetting about your family. A start up cleaning business can be very demanding. A new business owner might be working 60 hours or more a week. This can put a huge stress on your family. When you start a cleaning business, it is not only a commitment on your part, but also on your family and friends. Make sure that you find time in that hectic first year of business to show appreciation to your family and friends for the support they give you.

Copyright 2006 The Janitorial Store

Steve Hanson is co-founding member of TheJanitorialStore.com, an online community for owners and managers of cleaning companies who want to build a more profitable and successful cleaning business. Sign up for Trash Talk: Tip of the Week at http://www.TheJanitorialStore.com and receive a Free Gift. Read cleaning success stories from owners of cleaning companies at http://www.cleaning-success.com/ .

Overhead projectors are used to project transparencies. One contains a glass plate with a light source from below that reflects the image in the transparency through a lens on an arm to a screen. Transparencies are polyester films of a standard A4 paper size that allows light to pass through.

Overhead projectors are simple to use and they were the first ones to be used for business and classroom presentations. This was before the arrival of data and video projectors. The projector can be set up in 10 seconds, the arm can be bent for easy portability and weighs approximately 14 lbs. The resolution can be in the range of 4000 lumens. The OHP comes with accessories such as a portable stand so that projector can be placed in the middle of the classroom, a collapsible screen, extension cords with different lengths, and sockets.

The rental rates usually vary from $30 to $50 daily, $100 for a week and $200 for a month. Most of the university classrooms have OHPs installed. The advances in data projection for CD, DVD and laptops have reduced the demand for OHP.

Use of overhead projectors has declined with the flashy presentations of PowerPoint. Still they are occasionally used in universities, in classrooms for lectures, and job training. They are preferred over data projectors as they are simple and don’t require computers for input. The transparencies can be modified during the lecture itself, which makes it versatile. The disadvantage is that OHP is fragile and bulky. Also, care should be taken to ensure that the transparencies are clear. For instance, photocopied text book pages will look bad on the screen.

Some of the important branded overhead projectors are 3M, Bell & Howell, Dukane, and High Lumens. Specific features such as built-in lamps and image magnifiers add to the higher rental rates.

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What is the number one way to prevent failure in business? Take a minute to really think about your answer. What comes to mind? Increasing patients or customers served? … Effective marketing? … Location, location, location? … Improving patient or customer care? … Being the best in your industry?

Although these are all essential aspects of business, the answer isn’t any of the above. The number one way to prevent business failure is to properly manage your working capital.

To ensure that we’re all on the same page, working capital is simply defined as the difference between your current assets and current liabilities. If this figure is positive, you have working capital available. This working capital may exist as inventory, accounts receivable, or cash on hand.

Working capital management is a critical management issue for growing businesses or medical practices. Take the example of a growing doctor’s office: As expenses rise with patient-load increases, you accrue more outstanding cash, particularly before receiving reimbursement from the health insurance payors. At this point, your incoming cash does not nearly offset your costs going out. This may be manageable while you work with payments for past services; however, eventually the time lag may become a significant stress-point for your business.

By adopting a few working capital management strategies, you can make your assets work for you, without becoming beholden to banks.

Strategy #1: Get Paid Now

Let’s take a look at the most obvious area: accounts receivable. What do your receivables do for you when they are not being paid? While your profit margins may look stellar if you have a lot of orders, you have essentially loaned all of your clients the amounts of your invoices-until they decide to pay you. Doctors, in particular, know the pain of this situation. Insurance payors are particularly adept at prolonging the time for payment; they realize that the longer they take to pay, the greater their profit margins.

Is this just another cost of doing business? Well, not necessarily. Eighty percent of small business owners, medical practitioners, and small hospitals are completely unaware of a resource Fortune 500 companies have used for decades: accounts receivable funding.

Banks often measure accounts receivable at as low as 50 percent of their overall value as collateral for a traditional loan. In accounts receivable funding, however, accounts receivable are calculated at full value. Plus, you accrue no debt for this financing, as you essentially sell your accounts receivable for payment against the full value.

Perhaps the idea of selling your revenue stream makes you nervous. But consider this: You usually receive 80 percent of the entire amount of the invoice within one or two days-at least 28 to 118 days sooner than usual. This cash injection allows you to make capital improvements for your business to generate more revenue, leverage the cash for discounts on your inventory, cover operating costs, or provide bonuses to your employees, for instance.

As your invoices are paid, your funder will repay the other 20 percent, minus the negotiated fee (average four to five percent of the invoiced amount). Don’t get hung up on the ‘cost’ of the funding. With proper management of those funds, you will more than make up for fees by the investments made in your business. Your day-to-day business costs may stay the same, but the tremendous increase in incoming cash will enable you to rest easy.

Homework: Review your accounts receivable aging report. Note the average payment time from one of your best clients or insurance payors. Assuming payment of 80 percent of the invoice value in 48 hours, make a list of ways to use that money for your business:

• Cash discounts on inventory (estimate in dollar amounts).

• Buying or leasing new equipment (anticipated return in additional sales).

• New marketing campaign (anticipated additional revenue).

After you total the increased income generated by implementing this strategy, you can easily see the real benefit.

Strategy #2: Shorten Your Operating Cycle

Your operating cycle starts when you take cash out of your account to begin work for a client, and ends the day the client pays you. If you complete a project on Tuesday, for instance, but do not invoice until the following Friday-or even the end of the month-you lose days of income. Since you need the cash in your account-not just in your profit margins-you must minimize the time between service rendered and service invoiced.

Homework: Review how long you usually take to invoice a client. If that period of time exceeds a week, have your staff shorten that time. This adjustment will decrease the payment time by as much as 25 percent.

Strategy #3: Collect Past Due Accounts

Do you have a significant number of invoices out more than 60 days? If so, is your staff doing anything to shorten this timeframe? Call the clients whose invoices have been out 30 days and inquire about the invoice. Devoting a few hours a week to completing this task is money well spent if it ensures that even half of your outstanding invoices are paid a couple of weeks earlier.

Some delays in the healthcare industry, for example, are intentional. Prolonging the turnaround for payment controls costs. In these cases, you don’t have any recourse. As any doctor can tell you, calling the insurance company to inquire about a claim can be a fruitless task.

Homework: Review your collections procedures and tighten up your ship, if needed. Assign one person to follow up on invoices outstanding for more than 30 days. Realize, though, that collections results fluctuate with your clients’ priorities. Don’t count on this as your only means of improving your cash flow.

Strategy #4: Turn Existing Equipment Into Cash

As we know, keeping current with technology improvements are constant and necessary to remain competitive. Leasing is a way to stay up-to-date without incurring the charges of frequently buying new equipment.

But have you ever considered leasing equipment that you already own? One option is selling your equipment to a leasing company, and leasing it back from them. This way, you generate some cash for your business. You will, of course, incur the lease payments.

Homework: Take stock of what you own. If you need capital, contact a few leasing companies and gauge their interest in purchasing equipment for you to lease back. Alternatively, a Certified Cash Flow Consultant will shop for you. Since they are independent consultants paid by the leasing companies, you will avoid any additional charges.

Strategy #5: When In Doubt, Outsource

Outsourcing certain support areas of your business, in which you are not an expert, is an excellent way to reduce payroll and insurance costs. You will spend a higher dollar per hour for importing experts, but the reduced costs (no health or workers’ compensation insurance) usually compensate for the cost variance.

Be sure to hire these experts with as much diligence as you would any in-house employee. As you’ll typically retain this type of assistance through specialty staffing houses, interview the individuals to be assigned. As integral members of your team, they must be as reliable as any employee on your payroll.

Homework: Contact area firms that provide the kind of staffing you need. Compare the cost of those contracts against the cost of keeping these staff on payroll. Be careful: Consultants can get expensive, so be sure to build cost controls (i.e., fixed fee for a weekly basis or hourly with a ‘not to exceed’ clause) into your contract. Be clear on their scope of work, to whom they report, and how you define satisfactory performance. In addition, you must directly approve any staff changes.

Strategy #6: Inventory When You Need It

Inventory that sits in the warehouse, not being sold for income, eats away at your available cash flow. It is an asset, sure, but it should not become a liability because it is not quickly converted to cash. Over-ordering of inventory gets many businesses into trouble.

Review your inventory forecast all the time, and be aggressive. Know your options in times when you have shortfalls. Fulfilling customer orders on time is a number one priority, so don’t take unnecessary risks. If you simply hoard inventory to offset any chance of being caught off-guard, you lose the potential profits made by managing it more aggressively.

Homework: Review your current and projected inventory for the coming months. Do you need to make changes, or is it all under control? Make any necessary calls to your suppliers to negotiate better terms or better understand their supply controls.

Make Your Working Capital Work for You

Working capital management is a key element to business success and the number one way to prevent business failure. By implementing strategies such as accounts receivable funding, outsourcing, or inventory management, your business can optimize the return on assets it already possesses. Your company will then be well positioned to handle future growth or economic downturns.

*Reprinted from Create the Business Breakthrough You Want:

Secrets and Strategies from the World*s Greatest Mentors

© 2004 Mission Publishing, a division of The Mission Marketing

Mentors, Inc., http://www.missionpublishing.net, or

http://www.missionmarketingmentors.com

About The Author

Ms. Anindya Kar, Certified Cash Flow Consultant, specializes in helping small businesses and medical providers with business financing. Her company, AKSF Funding Group (http://www.aksffunding.com), is based in Oakland, California, and works with clients nationwide. You may contact her for more information at 800.406.1399 or mailto:akar@aksffunding.com.

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When I started title repping in 2002, I was coming off being a geeky computer software trainer, with very little experience on the outside in sales. In Southern CA, title sales is mostly about reputation, first impression, and long-term relationships. I had none of these things. So, my boss sat me down and said, “I broke my sales territory in 6 months, and this is what I did. You can, too, if you do as I say.”

1. Wear business shoes and shine them daily.

2. Keep hair cut and groomed.

3. Look fresh and crisp. Shower every morning before work and wash hair.

4. Be physically fit. Trim and energetic is attractive.

5. Wear a dress shirt only one time before washing and ironing.

6. Wear only white dress shirts.

7. Wear coats into offices.

8. Don’t talk politics, religion, or sex.

9. Don’t monologue. Ask leading questions and listen and remember.

10. Talk you, me, and us. It’s a one-on-one relationship business.

11. Always encourage, recognize, and compliment.

12. Don’t overstay your visit. Get in, get your response, and get out! Repetition has greater value.

13. Make 30 calls a day.

14. Know who directs the business; the manager, loan rep, or processor.

15. Always look for an opportunity to present.

16. Do your presentation in their conference room.

17. Give a well-prepared, rehearsed presentation on your company, your service, and yourself.

18. Ask for the order without hesitation, confidently yet politely.

19. Use the four steps to selling - A) rapport, B) interview, C) presentation, and D) close.

20. Don’t offer things they don’t want.

21. Ask them - A) who they use; B) how long have they used them; C) why do they use them; and D) what do they look for in a title company. Then, go into your presentation.

22. Use customer names frequently.

23. “Mr.” would apply to older gentlemen.

24. Maintain a route of A, B, and C accounts after about 75 offices have been found.

25. Go to A’s more than B’s. Go to B’s more than C’s.

26. Always leave marketing material.

27. At first, spend money to feed offices. Put your business card sticker on stuff. This is marketing.

28. Pizzas work well for taking lunch into offices.

29. By the third month, once you’re recognized in these offices, spend money on individuals.

30. Give people gifts occasionally as a token of appreciation. Blockbuster, Starbucks, movies, Barnes & Noble, etc.

31. Always write thank-you notes for business. NOT e-mails. NOT phone calls.

32. Keep an open and closed order book to reconcile business.

33. Maintain an updated list of things to do.

34. Take people to lunch to get to know them.

35. Carry a folder. When a customer has a request, write it down in front of them.

36. Don’t try to impress the customer with technology, only offer if they request.

37. Return phone calls in 10 minutes.

38. Answer phone as much as possible.

39. Always follow-up. Don’t expect something got done because you asked.

40. Keep notes about respective customers on the back of their business cards. Also, their description and discussion.

41. Do busy work at night. That is down time. See customers during daylight prime time.

42. Get time frames of expectations from customers on all requests. This will assist time management.

43. Always underpromise and overdeliver.

44. Never act like you know something if you don’t. This will cause a detriment to your credibility.

45. If you don’t know, say “I don’t know but I’ll find out and get right back to you.” Then do it.

46. If we screw up, never be defensive. Say “That shouldn’t happen - I’ll look into it,” and see that it doesn’t happen again.

47. A) If someone blasts your internal staff, listen to your customers, tak enotes in detail, and then, giving the benefit of the doubt to our fellow employee, ask them what happened. B) If it sounds like we have an internal problem, then bring it to me.

48. Your job is to be a “problem solver.”

49. Your desire to help will show well.

50. Believe in yourself.

51. Be yourself.

Chris Naaden is the sales representative of United Title Company in Long Beach, California. Chris has assisted customers since 2001 in both residential resale and refinance transactions. He may be reached for comments and service at cnaaden@unitedtitle.com.

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Generally, the low carb diet has various versions. There are several well-known versions of the low carb diet. Even though the diets differ in their recommendations, it is very nice to recognize that the low carb diet, as the general rule applies, is synonymous with a high-fat and moderate protein diet. With a low carb diet, you are given the opportunity to eat until you are full, as long as you eat only those foods that are allowed for your diet.

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The most popular loan type is a car loan. Car loans can come from many sources and are probably the easiest for someone with poor credit to get. The main purpose for a car loan is to buy a car. You borrow the amount to pay off the car and then make fixed payments for a fixed period of time. Interest charges and other fees may be applied depending on the lender.

Home loans or mortgages are used to buy a home or make repairs to a home. There are two types of home loans- conventional and government. Conventional loans follow certain terms and conditions set by the lender. They include interest rates and other fees. They can have a fixed or variable rate. Fixed rates mean your payments are the same amount for the life of the loan. Variable means your payments change with changes in the interest rate. Government loans include, FHA(Federal Housing Administration), VA(Veterans Affairs), and RHS (Rural Housing Service) loans and loans offered through state or local agencies. These loans are usually income based and can provide help with down payments and negotiating interest rates.

The next popular loan type are student loans. Student loans are used to pay for education. These loans can be private or federal. Private loans are credit based and come from conventional sources like banks. The Federal Stafford loan is a government type loan that has three different types. The subsided loan type is based on need, has a variable rate and is paid back starting six months after graduation. The unsubsidized loan type is not need based, has a variable rate and is paid back starting six months after graduation. The last type of Stafford loan is the PLUS or parent loan for undergraduate students. This loan is made to parents and they can borrow as much as needed. It is not based on need or income.

These three types of loans - car, home and student- are the most popular types of loans people obtain. They all are used for a specific purpose. While they vary in how to obtain them and how they work they all are examples of general loan types.

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