The majority of my previous two posts have focused on home loans and how the game isn't in our favor while most of the population is tuned out. Guess what? It's the same in the commercial arena and no one notices it there either.
Read MoreWhen I was forty years-old, a friend asked if I wanted to invest in a commercial real estate deal. He was assembling a partnership to purchase a small retail building. At the time, I was a property manager, and my friend was a broker.
Investing in commercial real estate had been a goal, but my finances were a mess. Unfortunately, I had to wait. I couldn’t admit my poor financial situation, so I simply asked my friend to think about me for the next deal.
That embarrassing moment ignited a desire to be in a real estate deal. But to achieve that dream, there was one thing I needed to do—grow up.
Read MoreI was recently talking with a colleague who said he was close to retiring. Gil (not his real name) is in his early fifties and slightly quirky. He’s the type of guy who marches to the beat of his own drummer. Although he works for a large, corporate-think company, he sports a long beard and tattoos. He’ll freely talk about politics and other matters that most folks would shy away from. With his wife, he lives in the country – far away from the hustle and bustle of society.
Read MoreWhen most people learn that I formerly was a police officer, they raise their eyebrows and will usually say something like, “Really? Why would you quit?”
Read MoreI read the most astounding paragraph in the June 19th, 2018 edition of USA Today. In Wealth of Millionaires Surges 10.6% to top $70 Trillion for the First Time, David Carrig was reporting on the World Wealth Report 2018 recently released from global consulting firm Capgemini. It was the third paragraph of the article that really caught my attention,
Read MoreI read an article recently wherein the writer stated that all debt is bad. I paused on his stance and reflected for a bit. It seemed extremely militant. I’m not saying the author can’t take that position, it’s just that I don’t agree with him.
Read MoreMy lunch box makes one house payment for me every year. It wasn’t always that way, though.
Up until a couple of years ago, I ate lunch out every day.
Read MoreI would like to think I was smart when I was 27 years-old. I had already served four years in the military, earned a degree from a state university and had just entered the real estate world as an executive assistant earning a whopping $20,000 / annually. Okay, I didn’t blow the doors off with my starting salary, but I was excited to be learning the real estate game.
Read MoreA blog focusing on growing wealth through commercial real estate investing and developing along with aggressive savings and personal responsibility.
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