Quite a lot of it… and every now & then feel compelled to share what’s working and what’s not. Lessons from my last $20mm 👇
When you’re buying stocks & companies you’re betting on the management team & the R&D… you’re making this bet:
“This company will out-innovate and out-hustle everyone else…”
It’s a fool’s errand unless you know how hedging works… with REAL ESTATE — you’re betting on this:
🏆 20 years from now, people will like to sleep with a roof over their heads.
Generally speaking, ppl don’t LIKE being homeless. Although EVERYTHING incurs a measure of risk, the ‘risks’ in real estate come from almost exclusively from VALUE/PRICE.
- become good at “goodbye,” many ppl come in and out of your life and you want to treat them well on the EXIT, not just the ENTRANCE
- smile at people, especially service workers (baristas, waitresses, grocery store workers) - their lives are harder than yours and a smile goes a long way
- don’t trade success at home for success at work, it’s a bad trade...
- that doesn’t mean you can only have one or the other, just that you know where your real priorities are
- give money to those less fortunate, EVEN when you *are* the “less fortunate”
A day will come when the one thing you will wish for above anything else is the opportunity to go back and do it different.
You will crave, with every fiber of your soul, for the impossible chance to go back & to change things.
You'll dream what it could've been like to be stronger.. what it could've felt like to have courage, to risk something for a worthy cause.
You'll fight off feelings of regret from wasting years of the only life you will ever have while other people went for it.
You will remember ALL the memories, of when you swore you were doing what was "safe" and "prudent" but really you were weak and simply afraid of losing.
In your attempt to never lose you will ensure your greatest loss of all time: having never actually lived...
Person A makes $1,000,000 per year and keeps $750k in cash.
Person B makes $1,000,000 per year, spends $250k and dumps $750k in asset base.
Apply leverage @ 75% LTV = $3M assets.
Over first 12 months here’s what happens:
- $3M turns into $3.2M conservative.
- Debt structured correctly reduces $2.25M to $2.1M
- $200k bump on assets has no debt, pure net worth
- Cash flow created @ 8% on $750k = $60k bump
All in first 12 months = $385k+ and $750k protected against assets.
Off $750k that’s 51% growth rate.
Compound over 5 yrs and you will hate yourself for hoarding cash while players strategically DEPLOY cash.