Merry Christmas
Friday, December 25
So after a decent Christmas meal offshore, we are back to work. I am still waking up every few hours for welds so I haven't had much time for real estate. I have begun reading The Book on Flipping Houses by J Scott so I am doing something. I also plan on reading What Every Real Estate Investor Ne...
Not Much Sleep But Got A Lot Done
Thursday, December 24
So after 2 days of no sleep, driving back and forth to site for 24 hour coverage, I decided to move to the vessel so I can actually sleep between welds. I'm working on a spool vessel and they are spooling both reels. The welds are coming staggered so sometimes there's an hour between welds, somet...
A Mindless, But Good Weekend
Monday, December 21
I spent all day Friday working on my real estate course. I read and filled out about a dozen contracts, so after my postcards and stamps arrived, I decided to spend all day Saturday lounging, watching TV shows and movies and addressing and stamping postcards.Aside from three trips out of my hotel...
Business Plan Done
Friday, December 18
I decided to take a break from my real estate course last night. I wasn't planning on doing anything real estate related, but I felt guilty not working on it so I broke down and wrote my simple 2 page business plan. While writing the plan, I ended up learning more about NOI, ROI, Cap Rate, CoC, ...
Preparing for Offshore
Thursday, December 17
So yesterday I found out I will be leaving to go offshore by the end of next week. Because I still plan to do my postcard mailers this weekend, I wanted to make sure I could get calls. I have a Google Voice number that forwards to my iPhone, but I didn't know if I could get calls with no cell pho...
It Really Doesn't Need to Cost a Lot
Wednesday, December 16
Being a previous business owner, I have gone the expensive route in starting my wholesaling and real estate investing career. I did it this way because I want to have things in place so I'm not playing catch-up later. Thinking about all the money I have spent since I started this blog, I could ha...