Lessons learned

“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney, as quoted in the movie “Meet the Robinsons“ I have often spoken of the time when I was unable to get a [...]

I attended the Quezon City real property tax foreclosure auction sale yesterday and although I was only able to make it to the last forty minutes of the auction, I was still able to learn a lot and I would like to share these lessons here.

Last week, I felt disappointed because I found out that all of the small condo units (22 sqm) in the upcoming UCPB auction were already sold out, even if the auction was still 3 weeks away. It turns out that Century Properties Management Inc. (CPMI), the one handling the auction for UCPB, had accepted pre-auction [...]

My wife and I along with fellow real estate investor friends attended a Tax Foreclosure Auction in Marikina City last November 13, 2008. Although I did not win the bidding for any of the Marikina tax delinquent properties that I was interested in, the time was well worth it as I had learned so much [...]