Who or what is your inspiration?

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Hello all,

I am curious to know who or what inspires you guys? It doesn't necessarily need to be real estate, it can be general also.

I will go first. I always get inspired when I hear about or meet unassuming people that you would have never thought had a lot of money, actually turn out to be very wealthy.

Curious to see other responses.

Sharad

Steve Babiak · Answer

Bigger Pockets :)

Chris K. · Answer

Life.

I am fully aware of how furtunate I am to be 1 in 54,676,453,776,235.3 to be given a chance to experience life as a human. I know I only get one shot at it and I want to make it count so I need to do what I enjoy doing while hopefully bringing joy to myself and those around me.

Jay C. · Answer

Ben Franklin

Peter Mckernan · Answer

In my eyes this question makes a person answering it dig deep. To breakdown this question I believe that there are a lot of motivating factors in life that inspire people in different ways. These ways are things that people believe will help them live a fruitful life. The factors that motivate me for a fruitful life are pursuit of happiness, safety, and passion; which are all encompassing.

While I don't believe money creates a happy life, I believe that being able to provide for a family and not have to stress over financial responsibilities is happiness. By pursuing a financially stable income stream reduces those financial stresses and helps a person enjoy life with their family. I see the benefit in investing real estate and the aspect that it could benefit my family and me in the long run in motivation.

Safety falls into making sure that a my family and possessions are secure. This can be found in a nice community with a low crime rate, good schools for your kids and prudent local laws. These can be reached by becoming successful in a profession and capture the income that can place my family and myself in these areas.

The last motivational factor is my passion for real estate. I have a full-time job that holds my main passion; however, I have a good amount of time off and can't seem to stop moving on my days off work. Throughout this extra time off I found another passion of mine, which is real estate. It is easy to get distracted by different things throughout life, but this is another true passion of mine that I have come to find out. This gives me discipline in my finances and has shown me that people can be very imaginative in their investing.

Thanks for your time and also thank you for asking the question!

@Sharad M.

Peter

Gerald Harris · Answer

Mom & God.   I would have to say My Fiance as well.

Have a great day!

Dell Schlabach · Answer

@Sharad M.  you would be inspired by a few people I have gotten to know.

One of my first private lenders, very unassuming older gentleman working at thrift store, loaned me 20,000 on a project, later asked if I needed more, another 30,000, few month later another 50,000 over a two year period was up to 180,000.

I asked him one day, how he made his money, if he ran a sucessful business amd had retired. Said no he always had a general labor job, never made more than 13.00 an hour.

He raised six children.

Said he always saved a little money from every paycheck and didnt spend money on things they didnt need,  said after 50 years it adds up.

My main private lender lives in a modest house, in a good neighborhood,  drives a clean well maintained 1998 pickup, dresses in jeans and tshirt typically, always seems to have coupons for any place we meet/eat including mcdonalds. Takes plenty of vacations to nice places, mostly paid with rewards points, including hotels and airlines. He currently has loans to us at a just under 1,000,000.

Learned a lot from these individuals.

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