I just tried to express to him, that my heart is in a different place now, that I am ready to move forward with something else and REI has always been a passion of mine and something I have wanted to do for the past 10 years, just never had the confidence to do it & now I do!

I am absolutely impressed with the response given by Jon and I could not agree more, nor could have expressed it so perfectly.

One lady even put together a whole package and express mailed it to me.

This has been a great discussion with a number of different yet totally valid viewpoints expressed.

There is a long term tenant inside now paying $650/month who has expressed to stay.

@Lear Riojas Fax, eMail or express mail can be used to sign a purchase contract or docs to settle a property.

They expressed interest by e-mail in renewing back in June.

I came to him expressing that I was interested in working for him to learn the business.

@Ellis San Jose Yes, one of my favorite expressions: "Trust but Verify"

My earliest and best advice was from my Grandad (in his 80s at the time), who passed along the old English expression, when I was six:"Look after the pence and the pounds will look after themselves"Early advice aside, I've always had a philosophically complicated relationship with accrual of wealth, our hypocritical financial system - though have made piece with the fact that I need to be on the pointy end of it, broken or not.