UDW makes front page, Cat becomes famous!

We got off the plane in Detroit (returing from the Las Vegas Conference, turned our phones on and they exploded! (with messages and texts….not like a bomb). I thought this was all a joke.
We went to the newsstand that there we were …..on the FRONT PAGE of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. Yeah! The facts and numbers, as usual with journalism pieces, are not quite right but the spirit and overall message is! The picture…well that is a different story. The photographer was quite a bit early and I was not dressed yet. Of course the one picture she took in the 45 seconds I was downstairs before going up to out on my sweater is the one that makes the front page. Blah! Oh, well – I have seen better and worse days. I have a PDF of the article but it is too big to put here...below is the email we sent out to almost everyone with a link to the article online……Yes – our cat made the paper but our UDW partner Jared did not. Hmmm……

Urban Detroit Wholesalers makes front page,
Cat becomes famous!

For those who don't know or who happened to miss this Mondays Detroit Free Press, we made the front page! This was a pleasant surprise and we thought the article did justice to the city of Detroit and our business. They didn't get the numbers exactly right but
the spirit of the story was very positive. For those of you who missed it, click on the link below and read the full story. You will see the my cat, Athena, is now famous
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803310318

My wife and I just got back from the annual Creative Real Estate Online conference in Las Vegas. We met some great people and as always we came away with some fabulous ideas. Every month we travel somewhere to learn something new and promote our business. It is always interesting how people react when they hear about what we are doing in the city of Detroit. There is a very negative impression about what is going on in the city. Most think we were lucky to make it out alive! These myths are not easily dispelled. Events that happened thirty years ago are still dictating most
peoples conscious thoughts about Detroit. I challenge everyone to go to our website at www.WholesaleMi.com and look at the pictures and video walk throughs of the houses we are buying. Do they look like war zones to you? Do you see anyone with an uzi or an ak47 shooting at us? Of course not. What you will see are great looking houses in great neighborhoods. I would say that most of the houses are nicer than the home you are currently living in! No joke! Look at our latest purchase on Woodingham St.

It truly is amazing the quality of the house you can buy here and how cheap you can buy it. Before the 1970's, Detroit was one of the richest cities in the world. The housing stock built in this city was built for the rich and very well to do middle class. These are very well built houses with a replacement cost in the low $100,000 range. I am quoted as saying these houses are “diamonds” and I truly mean it. These houses are bargains and you can buy them at a 70 percent discount to their current value. Compared to their replacement cost, you getting an even bigger discount. Sometimes it takes an outsider to bump your brain in a different direction and see things from a different perspective.

I'm driving through a field of diamonds shoveling them into the back of my truck. Come join me and get your diamonds. Having started as an out of state investor, I have a unique perspective.

Motivational Quote
“I’m not successful because I’m great. I just fail faster than everyone else!”
Rachel Young

I know there are a lot of people out there who are to afraid to start because they might fail. I'm here to tell you that you will fail regardless of how hard you try not to. I'm also here to tell you that there is nothing wrong with failing. You should fail as much as you possibly can. Because if you are failing and learning from your mistakes each time, you will be successful. The people who are the most successful didn't make the least amount of mistakes, they are the ones that got back up after the mistakes were made

Happy Investing,
Jeremy Burgess
www.WholesaleMi.com
www.DetroitInvestmentSecrets.com
www.UrbanDetroitOnline.com

So lets talk about facts.... To read more, go to our weekly blog at http://www.urbandetroitonline.com/

Consumer Report Break on Spirit Air

NEVER EVER TAKE SPIRIT AIR – Bad, Bad, Bad:

They charge you $20 to check EACH of your bags:

• I find out at the ticket counter with 3 bags: my clothes, Jeremy's, marketing materal,
• I had no cash and they do no tlike to take Credit because of the paperwork
• I had to wait FOREVER since all I had was a credit card

They do not serve drinks or food on the flight, but will SELL you some for extremely high prices:

• $2 for a Dixie cup of soda or water,
• $3 for stale cookie
• Take Cash - gruble loudly at Credit since the charges are so small
• Did not know of charging ahead of time or I woudl have brought something

There is NO service while on the flight BUT

• They are going for the friendliest staff
• Al a cart services so you pay for only what you use to keep prices low
• The planes ARE new
• The seats are even closer together than normal

This system works ONLY for the business commuter flights (1.5 hour or less like Seattle –Spokane, Detroit-Chicago) because you don’t need a drink, to check bags, etc. For a 5 hour flight – I want water or ginger ale and due to times, I NEED a snack. My short little legs did not fit – I have to spread my legs to avoid the chair in front with my knees - not comfy that long.

You DO NOT save money:

• Southwest: $300 roundtrip each.
• Spirit: $313 at least roundtrip each. [$255 Ticket + $40 bags + $8 (water & soda I go through min.) + $10 (snacks usually provided)]

The flight is still late, more cramped, you CAN NOT check in electronically if checking bags – so a VERY long line, etc. Not worth it. They did assign seats though so I could board last and not en mass cattle like.

Public rant, I mean public announcement over now…

Viva Las Vegas!

Conference time again! This time we are hitting up the CRE Online Conference in Las Vegas. We are in a newer hotel. South Point, on the south end of the strip – way down - supposed to be the next “new” area for hotels. I was very impressed with check in, the room, the services, etc. They could have installed better air filtration – it was a bit stale and the restaurants were not fabulous. Can’t tell you anything about gambling – didn’t participate. The conference kept us busy from 6am to Midnight every day – they even provided breakfast and lunch so we would network and talk. Great conference! Yes – the presentations were to sell courses BUT the presenters gave lots of useful information during the presentations so we all took golden nuggets home! Yeah!

My favorite part, as usual, is making personal connections with other conference goers….we met several really COOL people that we are still in contact with after a whole month! One even bought two properties from us – YOU GO GIRL! Mind you, these are not pretty looking houses but MAN the numbers are good – they are going to CASH-FLOW for her (and they are in a great neighborhood).

Down side – I got really – I mean REALLY sick on the second day and had to stay in the room (bathroom actually). Sweaty, dizzy, hot, weak, blah for 36 hours and then I was back in action! Jeremy took really good care of me – he brought me water and ginger when he checked in on me every few hours.

Since I was a little off my game, I forgot to take any pictures. Bad Jeanna –There was even a formal dinner and I looked great – but did I take a picture, no. Dad Burges drove out from LA to visit and see the strip the last day. We went EVERYWHERE. I walked them through most all of the hotels to see the sites (he had never been) and did I remember to take a picture – not a single one! AHHH!

We did have a surprise when we got home: the tree that used to stand next to the corner of our house was across our driveway. No problem – get out the saw. Here are pictures:




We had a few other surprises on this trip too:
See Consumer Report Break on Spirit Air ...for flight info
See UDW makes front page, Cat becomes famous!

Easter Escaped

Where did Easter go? It is supposed to be in April and yet I found it in March. Not prepared - AHHHH! I decorate in GREEN for March with plethora of Sister type items (since Andrea's B-day is in March – no she is not a frog…she gave me a lot of my frogs although there are a few from others too! Can you count how many there are?) and I decorate April in pastels, Easter things, etc.

Well - Easter stuff did not go up since I was all green and I was at such a loss as to what to put up for April that the green stayed. Here are a few beautiful pictures:





As you can see the flowers are coming out slowly – they are beautiful! I will post more pictures as the world around be becomes warmer and prettier.

Well -Happy Easter anyway.