A Personal Real Estate Story (Life Lesson Early On)

[Grant Cardone]

As long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with real estate. I have been drawn to it for my entire life; and for the last 30 years I have been buying apartments. It didn’t matter whether it was a piece of land, a house, or a store front, I have always had an affinity for real estate and I also had some basic understanding that real estate was valuable.

I remember my Dad would drive my Mom and us five kids around on the weekends looking at real estate. My Dad owned three homes during his lifetime, and each one represented the fact that he was going somewhere, succeeding with each move. Just a few years before my Dad died he bought his dream house and he told Mom, “We’ve made it.” It was almost two acres, on the waterfront, had lots of big trees, and was in a neighborhood filled with doctors and lawyers and people who belonged to the local Country Club.

When he died, my Mom had to immediately sell the dream house because it was too much for her to manage. That was a huge lesson that I would not fully understand until I started investing in real estate myself, many years later, and one you must understand if you are going to create financial freedom using real estate.

-GC