All Forum Posts by: Daniel Fitzroy

 Thanks Chris, 

I would like to chat sometime I will be in touch thank you! I appreciate the advice and I completely understand. Especially since I don't offer snow removal, and don't plan to. So I've got a few things stacked against me. however I will figure it all out and iron out the kinks. For now I'm just thrilled to be working for myself. I"m trying to replace my old 9-5 income and get back to 30-40k a year. I've only done 10k ish or so my first year. It's hard becuase I am limited as to how much I can actually work given the fact that I have two kids. So my girlfriend and I alternate schedules and I can only work a few day's a week. 

 Thank you! I will take your advice. much appreciated. 

 Thank you for your feedback I appreciate it. I do still want the business to run on it's own even when I begin my real estate investing. So I think for me building a business that can someone run on it's own will be great. The skills and knowledge needed for that to happen will surely help me when I transition into real estate as I plan to brrrr properties. 

This is good food for thought. I'm still figuring it all out as I go. I went to local real estate investor meetups in ny and even after reading brandon turners book on creative financing I still don't have an understanding of how to begin investing without money. So I'm hammering down on the income side of things by learning how to run a successful business either way and then begin pouring that cash flow into my first small multi family. This may take me a while to get going on the first one but I'm so excited. Winters are for real estate as I'll be done with the lawn care season. 

 Thank you so much I appreciate it. I"ll read that book i've heard of it and actually just listened to robert kyosiki rich dad poor dad agian and cash flow quadrant. I'm looking for the next book to study so I'll read that one! 

Hi everyone,

I haven't been on this forum in about 3 years or at least it seems. I want to thank you guys for answering some questions I had and just share the good news that I fired my boss and stopped being a typical 9-5 employee for a company or companies that don't care about me. I was fed up with dealing with being treated like crap by coworkers who for some reason looked down on me. They also complained about the job and chose never to leave or do anything other than bring me down. for 3 years I struggled at dead end jobs and was burnt out and getting sick from all the drama. At one point I almost got in a fight with a guy who was ragging on me for no reason. I would stay an hour late past closing by myself to fix other lazy coworkers messes and straighten up and put tires away and clean up, then show up two minutes late the next day and get screamed at for it even after pointing out all the help I did the night before. I can't deal with this. Not to mention how they gave me crap jobs and always promised more pay but never would.I could't even pay my bills so I had nothing to lose if starting my own business. I quit and it's been tough but I am now the owner of a small solo lawn care landscaping company Called Top Notch Property Service LLC. I started my business last year and have learned so much. I dream of someday having the business produce enough that I can get into real estate during the off season/winter months and start burring houses to rent out. I've learned so much being my own boss and for me its perfect. I still work my tail off and need to eventually hire help before I burn out but it's amazing. I work with great clients, I am constantly busy and I am so excited I don't have to be talked down to by anyone ever agian. I"m free to work when I choose. however much I choose. I am studying podcasts while I work when I used to literally get screamed at for doing so at my job. It's a great feeling. I also used to install the mulch at the place I worked and it took me all day. I"de earn like maybe $100 or less as a mechanic at a tire shop. So I just did my first mulch job this year (similar sized job but working for myself now) while listening to my headphones studying and earned $500. for about 8 hours worth of work. The Freedom is amazing. To heck with working for a bad boss and negative co workers. Hope you all are doing well so excited to be back on here.

I almost forgot to mention that my real estate investing plan is the same as yours! I want to start out house hacking a 2-4 unit house and or live in flip to get started. 

Thats amazing man, I'm glad you're already so successful! You're way ahead of me still. im almost 30. I too am an automotive technician. I went to school for Toyota T-10. I love cars. Now instead of working at a shop that does repairs I work as an auto body tech. I like learning new trades. I've done a bit of everything. I'm very curious about flipping cars on the side as well as I currently am. but very very slowly. like two cars in two years haha. right now I have a 2009 nissan versa I bought from a relative for $500. I knew they sell for $2,000 and I could buy an engine for $500 or less and throw it in. so the spread on that would be about $1000. I would like to figure out which cars would make more sense to flip. some would be a better spread than others. I also thought about renting a garage and worried I wouldnt be able to pay for the rent while trying to flip. What other idea's or thoughts have you had about this? unfortionalty for me I'm struggling to save money for my first duplex. I have adhd, impulse, get bored and blow any savings I have on, you guessed it. cars. bummer. does anybody have any good books that could help a guy with this problem? 

Anyway keep saving and learning! keep us updated on your progress as you will surely be successful! Start networking at local meet ups too that has helped me find agents, and hard money lenders. Also don't be afraid to join local facebook real estate investing groups. I found my realtor by asking for local bank recommendations and a guy who lurks on there recommended a bunch and also offered to help me find a house(hes a realtor!) and now we go to meetups and chat and are super fired up about it. so you never know who's out there just start networking. 

sorry for the long post these are just my thoughts!

great job! I like that you're willing to improvise and were able to find a solution. That looks like my dads Kabota L4400 tractor or maybe even a tad bigger?