Curative Title Deal: Saving a Church Lot From Tax Sale

The...

Looking back on it, um, the good news is that the failures were me, you know, and I wasn't mature and ready enough to be doing that yet.

I was focused on kinda the fancy, you know, investment part of it, not the actually getting good solid deals, which is so, parlays so interesting into the real estate space too.

It's, you gotta have the deal first, and I-

Oh, yeah

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I was coming at it kind of from the back to the beginning when I should have been starting from the beginning.

But that's, uh, how I got into real estate, was I kinda, kinda tucked my tail eventually and, you know, admit that this wasn't happening right now.

I had burned through all my savings.

I had emptied out my retirement accounts to get-

These are good entrepreneurial lessons, though.

Th-

God, they hurt, but they temper you like no other.

Well, temper is a great word, 'cause I, at, at, at...

There became a point where I was feeling real bad about myself.

Mm-hmm.

I had come from wearing, you know, suit and tie every day, feeling-

Feeling fancy

... feeling fancy, you know, making more money than my peers, doing great.

Now I have, you know...

And it sounded great when I was starting my own business.

That was cool, and then a year later, you know, money's dwindling.

I had to rent my house out to, you know, keep from losing it, move back into my parents' garage.

Those are really tough things, man, but those are d- Well, I like to see those decisions in people because they've gotta make the hard decisions.

They've gotta do what they don't wanna do.