Financial Freedom One House At A Time
I am, I change Today, I would like to revisit a topic that I’ve written about before. It resurfaced recently. Once upon a time I invited you into a night ritual that I had with my then 3-year-old daughter. She’s now 6. The ritual went like this: I’d lay her on my chest while we sang songs and prayed. Before I’d lay her down, I’d ask…
They think differently than we do Ashley and I were out knocking the pre-foreclosure doors in Whitfield county yesterday. While we were there, we had an interesting experience that I would like to tell you about. The first couple of houses we went to were your normal $125-140k house in nice neighborhoods. I say “normal” because that’s the price range that the average person lives in in our…
It’s a family business I’ve got something on my heart that I really want to talk to you about. It has to do with a statistic I heard at a recent seminar. I heard that real estate investors, and entrepreneurs in general, get divorced from their spouses at a rate of 35%. That means at least one out of every three people I see at a seminar is…
FOCUS like a lion Ashley and I just got back from a mastermind meeting in Dallas, Texas. It was made up of real estate investors from all over the U.S. who are seeking to build better businesses by developing their systems and processes. Ya’ll, it was phenomenal! Each investor gaves a 15-minute presentation where they told a little about themselves and their company. Next, they told the…
Believe There was recently an all-day Star Warsathone on TNT. Google says it takes at least 15 hours to watch all seven movies. I wasn’t prepared to spend 15 hours in front of the TV, but periodically, I’d switch it on to see what the Skywalkers were up to. I found one scene during “The Empire Strikes Back” very insightful for this time of year. It was…
Keep your eyes on your goal The normal bedtime routine for the English house starts with the telling of a story. Most of the time, I contrive some sort of imaginative situation where a little boy or girl goes off and does something spectacular. The story ends after a grand adventure with the little one feeling so tired that they “go home, get in their bed and go to…
Only rejoicing I’m writing this during the Feast of Tabernacles, which is the fall feast mentioned in Leviticus Chapter 23. The feast brings with it two purposes. The first is a remembrance for the Children of Israel of how Yahweh made them to dwell in booths for the 40 years they were in the wilderness prior to entering the Promised Land. During those years the Children of Israel were…
I had an opportunity this week to evaluate some qualities one needs in order to be successful as a full-time investor or real estate professional. It started Monday morning as I was heading to the office for our weekly staff meeting. The project at forefront of my mind was completion of the rehab on a flip that was about to sell. We were running behind on it and…
So, I had an epic fail this week … in front of everybody. We have a praise day at my congregation a couple of times a year. The praise offerings range from the reading of psalms and other verses that have spoken to the reader to recitations of poems — and then, of course, music. I had planned to sing and play a special song on my…
As I was going through the TSA checkpoint at Hartsfield International Airport, I got an opportunity to practice some principles I learned from Dale Carnegie in his book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” As we waited in the crazy long line at the security check, I noticed some of the TSA agents didn’t look thrilled to be at work. I decided to interfere with…