Road to Realty

Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”  That is quite a bold statement, but it holds true to many households.  This is one of the key reasons my wife Kara and I are pursuing REI: we see it…

I was not going to write a blog this week. With the holidays and kids on spring break, I was just going to be like Elsa and let it go. However, one topic has been coming up over and over again in conversations, in the headlines, and on my Instagram. That topic is the NAR…

Kara told me a story recently where she was discussing our investment property in Canton, OH, on which we’ve recently closed.  We’re expecting that investment to cashflow about $200 to $300 per month.  While telling the story, one interesting response she got was, “That’s it…? That’s not that much money.”  While that is a perfectly…

We have officially closed! Or at least, that’s what I was told…in a very anticlimactic way… We haven’t received the deed or any rents yet so maybe those two things will make it seem more real. This is the first time we bought a house that wasn’t for us to live in and it feels…

This whole buying a house process is taking longer than I thought/wanted… but patience has never been a virtue of mine and we should own our first rental property tomorrow. Which means I’m only about 1.5 months behind my goal. I would have preferred to have reached my goal on time but at least we…

My wife, Kara, and I were celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary this past September with an Alaskan cruise.  We were out on the deck of the cruise ship enjoying the scenery, and we overheard some other groups talking.  Paraphrasing, the conversation went something like this: Party A: “Oh, we love to go cruising…” Party B:…

At this moment, I am half asleep on a plane, flying back from an 18 hour long visit to Ohio. If that sounds hectic, I should mention that both me and my 4 year old had the stomach flu last week AND I listed a property for sale on Saturday. I didn’t expect the immediate…

Getting back into the story… we had started forming our systems, like Ken had wanted. So I decided we were ready to buy a house. Really, I had wanted to buy it 5 years ago, but until Ken creates an AI that can build us a time machine, I am limited in my options.   We…

This entry will specifically be about where we are at in our investment journey. I mentioned last time that we opted to go through Rent to Retirement (R2R). That little sentence has so many little pieces that got us to where we are today… waiting for the contract for our first property to be sent…