Aprils best practices after tax season

As April comes to an end along with the Tax Season, it is best to put in place the best practices and close the tax year, get ready for the next one by reconciling your accounts, preparing your inconsistencies fix etc.

March in Tax Season

March is here and it means it is Tax season’s last month.

The first two months are usually the busiest months with clients rushing to get their income taxes done for various reasons. From my own experience the clients that rush to file their tax returns are individuals that need the refund.

 While the clients that wait are the ones that have a more structured and organized financial life and they tend to take their own time to file their personal and business tax returns.

I always will suggest my clients and everybody else of the best use of a tax return refund is to pay debt, credit cards, auto loans, student loans and mortgages. If you have no debt at all, then go ahead and save that refund for a rainy day, and then enjoy a portion of that tax refund.

It always make me sad to see a clients messy financial situation, some individuals can’t help, and they just but keep on getting on more and more debt and spending on every single penny that lands on their hands, including the tax refund. It saddens me even more when that messy tax payer have children.

In the bright side of March we have our loyal clients for over the past few years, but this year with our new office location in Culver City we are getting the locals and bystanders too, new clients and their tax situation always get us excited.

New office, new dreams, new challenges...

I am glad to share our new OREM office is busy with our Income tax Services and with the new services such as Immigration services, Credit repair, Bankruptcy, Marriage services, Divorce services, Business bookkeeping services, Business sep up services, and more.

The current Tax Season is in full swing and we are swamped with tax clients work at the office and a wedding, we keep on doing our best to help our loyal clients and new ones too.

I have to confess that the demand for our services make me realize that our marketing efforts are seeing the way we plan it.

Business is steady with our loyal clients and as we take on the services challenge we can only imagine that in a few years we should be growing beyond our first goals when we started this organization.

I am very grateful to have on board the right individuals that help us grow our organization.

OREM office fully operational

OREM office front

2015 is here and so is the new OREM office fully operational, with our colorful Japanese pop paintings all over the office, our cable TV in every office and lobby, our lighting sing, led dynamic sign, phone lines. And lets not forget about our community business board and our free Wi Fi for our visitors.

My office

I like a lot the gardens and flowers on both sides of our office entrance, right across street of the biggest Banking company of America and a busy gas station too. Their

 customers wont miss our light sign and our LED dynamic sign.

 Certainly is was fun moving furniture and arranging all the computer equipment, running cables in

Waiting area

the attic and setting up the security cameras and take them to online world.

My office view

We have had some friends and clients checking the office out in the past few days. We already helped a few clients in the pre season. Keep in mind this Tax Season starts on January 20^th, the IRS will start accepting them the same day too.

Here are some pictures of  us working hard to make our dream come true,

Robert's office

Come on and visit us and enjoy a cup of coffee and our free Wi FI.

Waiting area view

Brick and mortar office ready for business in 2015...

December is finely here and we are pretty excited for 2015, we have our brick and mortar office almost ready for business, we are also having these last inspections and office arrangements to get fully ready for our current clients and the new ones too.

 I’m also excited because we had grown with more business associates, Tax Preparers, Tax Agents and Networking Partners.

There is a lot of work to do in a location, this is not the first time that we have an office but this time it seem to be a lot more work to do than before. Everything is going great, having neighbor stores and other business owners around is a quite different experience.

Come and visit us at 12331 w Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, 90066.

LeapFrog Project in full Swing in Manila, the Philippines

November is here and the Leapfrog Project will be in full swing tomorrow for the next few days in the city of Manila in the Philippines, The LeapFrog Project is a project of the Nonprofit side of the OREM Organization.

LeapFrog Project

I’m Enrique Otarola, the CEO of the OREM Corporation and Executive Director of the OREM Foundation, I regret not being able to join all this personalities in Manila, at this moment I am attending an IRS National Association of Enrolled Agents in Orlando Florida.

I’m glad to introduce some of the Personalities participating at the LeapFrog Project Symposium.

Enrique Otarola Video Invitation.

Lira Luis, AIA, RIBA, CeM, LEED AP BD+C. the LeapFrog Project President and founder member, RBA_USA Board trustee, AIA Practice management knowledge community advisory group, AIA diversity council, Chief collaboration Architect at ALLL Atelier Lira Luis LLC,

Iilya Azaroff, AIA Associate professor, New York City College of technology CUNY, AIA NY design for risk and reconstruction founding Cp-chair + Lab Director of design.

James Karl Fisher, RIBA, AIA, PhD, RIBA-USA President, RIBA Overseas council, The Zoological Lighting institute board director, Zoological Lighting services owner, Architectural Association PhD.

Dr Christine E Bruckner, FAIA, HKIUD, LEED AP, BEAM, AIA International region president, CE Bruckner principal/Architect/ Sustainability consultant, Calexian director energy efficiency solutions, AIA Chairman, ICAG/Sec Int Region/IPP AIA Hong Kong.

Jose Emmanuel H Jalandoni, Ayala Land-Hotels & Resorts President, Ayala Land inc, Senior Vice President Ayala Land Inc, Capital and Hotels Group head.

Carelle Mangaliag, Communications and Change Coach, NPL Master Practitioner, Certified NPL Trainer, PResidnet and Ceo of Translation Manila/Hong Kong/Singapore, Philippine TV Personality/Actor/Singer.

Melissa Sterry, Design Scientist, Futurologist, Writer and Cross Disciplinary designer, developing Bionic City, PhD researcher at Avatar laboratory.

And other personalities such:

Scott Countryman,

Denise Everson,

Gina Lopez,

Rene Meily,

Jose Luis Oquinena,

Eva Mari Salvador

 Please join us in:

 LeapFrog in Facebook 

LeapFrog in Linkedin

LeapFrog in Twitter

The OREM Corporation New Head Quarters...

Looking for the right place for the OREM Corporation has been challenging in the past few months.

There are lots of   considerations, distance from other businesses, location, first floor, second floor, visibility, driving distance from home, weekend availability, parking for clients, etc.

I’ve considered the shared spaces for the economical prices and the convenience for neighbor businesses too.

We also considered a big location right in a busy street in Culver City, but the monthly budget is not at the point yet.

There is even a store front right across the street of a gas station that could drive traffic to the office. The only down side of this location was the fact that this office didn’t have the interior office partitions required for our organization, which is an office for the Accounting company, another one for the Real Estate and the  Foundation. This last location also needed too much money to be invested in the partition walls and electrical for the offices, not a good option after all.

We searched farther away and found some suitable places and very good looking offices and front stores, unfortunately the budget always came as too far away.

There is a saying, sometimes the solution of your problem is right in front of you but you don’t realize it.

One Saturday night, after having dinner at my favorite Chinese restaurant I got a fortune cookie that told me something like, you found your fortune place.

The same night while walking back home from this Chinese restaurant I saw this Store front with two big windows to a very busy street, with a brick and mortar facade, right in front of a bank branch of the biggest bank chain of America, also right across the street of a busy gas station and surrounded by local businesses, in front on two us stops and with its own parking.

The words that immediately pop in my head was Location, location, location!! And certainly one only can wonder where can I find a better office store front than this one? walking distance from my own home? What else can I desire?

The price range was right at our budget level, so after contacting the owner and having coordinated a visit, and after doing some more research, running more numbers and a smooth negotiation, we signed the lease for this unbeatable location.

So after years of searching we finely found out office for the OREM Corporation. We’ll have more good news to share soon.

This past weeks we were in the process of moving and improving some details of our new Head Quarters.