Fragrances: I thought my “professional looking” fragrance website would be up and running by now, but it’s not. I believe part of the problem is that I picked a bad shopping cart software package, then I selected a vendor who has revealed (after starting the project), that he’s never installed this particular shopping cart before. He just created a sample for me to see that he could at least do the basics. The problem with that is my project requires more than the basics. The only thing working is the Paypal module. I can’t import products or categories, and I can’t insert them manually either. Which has now given me great pause. While the site I created myself wasn’t the prettiest, it worked perfectly, and was easy to update. Now I’m thinking that I should’ve just left my creation in place, and hire someone to make it beautiful instead of hiring someone to do the opposite.

Real estate investing: One of my wholesale deals has run into a snag. I already knew it would have issues with liens, but the title report reveals that the liens are A LOT bigger than what the seller said (big surprise). There’s a tax lien of $16K, and a water bill lien of $25K (no, that’s not a typo). I’ve emailed the seller with no response so I’ll call her today. Thank goodness I have three more in the pipeline, because I have a feeling this one won’t work out.

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