1/29/12

Wow, it's been so long since I posted that I almost forgot how.
I could give you all a whole bunch of excuses why I haven't posted but the truth is, I'm still not 100% from my bronchitis episode so I have a tremendous lack of energy. As I sit here typing this, I am still hacking away so I've been avoiding taking phone calls or skyping anyone (Mark K ) It sucks to be old and sick. I'd prefer to just be one, either one!
Ok, enough crying!

Here's what little I have been doing:
I have been checking this site daily.
I contacted another DGer about FL property.
I forwarded an opportunity to a fellow DGer (just today) to give her either a great opportunity or a chance to get some real world practice doing a deal.
I've been cultivating an idea in respect to doing a deal with another DGer. (I'm still waiting for their response.)
I have been advising another DGer about a potential client I bird dogged to her. We're waiting to hear about a package of about 6 houses from him.
My CO partner has been sending me inquiries from other investors about FL properties.
MM told me he has a contract with EM on one of our CO properties so now I'm just waiting for the closing (in about 2 weeks.)
Researched some FL properties for MM until about 1:30 AM last night.
Reread Dean's newest book and recharged my interest in being a bit more forceful in finding an agent and power team.
Just keeping adding more sticks into the fire. One of them has to catch fire. I just hope it's soon!!!!!

Most importantly, I haven't made 1 fishing lure so I am really in hot water financially. Every penny in all of my accounts will just barely miss covering all my bills so I need to suck it up and get back to work. There is no rest for the weary.

I am being persistent because I want to make this work. I know the good my being a success would do. Not just for me but for all those I touch. Not to sound Godly or anything but I have been called a good light by some of the people I've helped in the past.

I recently joined an Aquarium Advice website to help fulfill my other passion of Tropical Fish keeping. I was reading through some of the threads there and saw soooooooooo many people giving bad and wrong advice. I just had to set them straight because I know what they don't from my training and many years of being in the business. My friends tell me that the hobby has changed so much that it's no longer fun and that's just wrong. For me, it's still fun and I want to make it fun for as many people as I can. Just like in RE, knowledge is what makes it easy therefore making it fun as well. I would love to take my RE proceeds and set up a place where I could mentor a budding Tropical Fish breeder. I was trained by a certified Ichthyologist at the tender age of 7 years old. To this day (some 47 years later) I can still remember the very first pair of fish he showed me how to sex and breed. That was the impact he had on me. He didn't live long enough to see me reach my pinnacle but I'm sure he would have been impressed at my accomplishments. I would love to honor him by passing along the knowledge I got from him as well as my own experiences to someone else.

So I've been at this long enough to cough up a lung and blow through all my tissues so I'm signing off for now.

Till next time...