What is up with all the young people walking around with their shirts out? I see it every time I travel on a plane, youngsters dressing as if they are on a bus instead of a plane. While I see professionals in button downs, with coats and BELTS, (Any Gen-Y or Z folks know what a BELT is - No its not what your daddy used on you when you were bad, it is part of the dress code) I still see too many men with an untucked shirt and looking like a slob. Maybe Animal House has a rebirth in today's culture, because the new class of leaders look like slobs, everywhere you look. If you want to have your elders and peers look down on, keep on looking like you came from a Spring Break party at PC Beach. I would never hire someone who looked like a train wreck, their residence probably looks worse. Jack

What is up with generation Y complaining? I mean really, I was in generation X, and I came out of college during the recession of 1992. Without receiving ANY job interviews with my flattering 2.2 GPA, I knew I had to do something different from the norm. Anyone coming out of college is not guaranteed a job, get over it, and realize that if "It is to be, Its Up to Me". I worked in computers at Deloitte Touche for 15 months before my graduation, I worked to setup PCs and laptops, this lead to a job at Coca-Cola working in their Workstation Support group. Had I never been exposed to computers, I never would have found my 1st job. It lead to other great IT jobs and I was able to transition into Real Estate and Sales before the bubble burst in 2001. Generation Y, grab yourself by the bootstraps and rise up. Get into what your generation is about, social media and taking care of boomers and find a way to become successful with the hand life has dealt you. Our country needs successful people, not whiners! Jack

Systems: Why is it that McDonald's sells more burgers than yourself? We all know your burger is better tasting and has more good toppings, but the difference is that McDonald's has a system, that they work and repeat and repeat and repeat, they keep pounding on what works. It is a great solution for them to sell everything from ice cream to fish bites. Their stock references it as well. Real estate is the same process. Build a system and follow it and become an expert in real estate. Very cool and you can rock it out! Jack

Collect the rents

Amazing how people can think they can skip out on rent. We have 9 rental properties and most people start out thinking they will pay the rent, then as time goes by, rent falls behind JEA and Cable, until pedicures are more important than rent.

Bull poop, rent is the most important thing, as my friend Paul Howard and Bill Gray have taught me. Pay it or I send your stuff to the street and I send you packing AND I send the rent owed to the three collection agencies.

Someone said being a landlord would get us ahead. It sure does not feel like it.

Happy Monday! Jack

Signs - are they really a problem?

Signs signs signs, everywhere are signs. So what? Are they really the devil as some in the City of Jacksonville claim, or do these government employees just need more to do? I think they are good to show people where local businesses are located. After all don't we as a society have more to worry about like teens on their cell phone while driving....anyway these kids are not our target market anyway. But really $250 for a first offense? Is the city that much of a pain to money? Guess so. But signs do work, otherwise people would not put them out. So do it and try it and see what happens in real estate. Jack