Thread by @JWurzak

Are you open or are you closed? In evaluating risk vs upside I decided early on to be open to relationships, open to share ideas and open to learn from others. Some thoughts for #retwit 👇🏻

I believe in karma and my approach is to learn, support, share and most importantly not be an ego filled asshole. In some real estate circles, believe it or not, this is actually contrarian.

Some of the best deals of my career have come from relationships - actually almost all of them. In Business, you just never know who you are going to meet that might have a profound impact on your life - financially or strategically.

What is guaranteed, is that if you aren’t open to let these connections happen and if you have a bad reputation for being a jerk they most certainly won’t.

I have met countless folks in RE including PE RE that have been total assholes - incredibly guarded and likely untrustworthy. Don’t be that person - you will miss out on far too much.

Real estate is about the long game, wealth and success are not built overnight. You may be concerned about “exposing” your secret sauce or a secret deal your chasing. However in my view the opportunities in doing so far outweigh the potential risks of not.

Meaning, what’s the worst that happens - someone screws you on one deal or one idea. What’s the best that happens - you do something that changes your life and leads to fifty deals.

In the former example you just move on cut your losses and never interact with that person again. In the latter example you totally crush it and surpass your wildest dreams.

This is not a zero sum game. When you figure that out your flow compounds and you win.

#retwit