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[Elias Twitchell]

I am in St Louis for at least half the year. I've tried to flip before but couldn't get financing. I started as an Americorps/Habitat for Humanity crew leader under the site manager, then I worked for a house flipper, and now I run Trimline Builders(A high end remodeling company).

I tried to buy my first flip or live in rental when I was working for the house flipper but couldn't get any loans because it was only my second year of being "self employed". I tried hard but didn't know the right things to do and just ended up thinking that you had to have money to make money and I gave up for a while and eventually just focused on my friend and I's new company.

We started our company because we saw a lot of short cuts with the flipper and didn't feel like what was happening was ethical so we wanted to do better work and be proud of it. Starting a business is way harder than I could have imagined but five years later we are still around and looking to expand intelligently. 

I'm headed to New England in the next few days for a few months of projects we are taking down an old barn to reclaim the lumber, and a few other projects. We are planning to be back in St. Louis around November so I will be trying to get to some rea groups and hopefully find a way to start investing in my future and learning from the school of hard knocks.

Hope to get to know everyone,

Elias Twitchell