Well it is now December and have neglected this blog for a very long time----much of this neglect stems from being a little gunshy about posting my life online--very recently after my last post almost a year ago I had a meeting with a guy and out of the blue he asked me a question. I was kinda like "HUH?" and then realized that this guy had read my blog prior to this meeting---it felt a little awkward so........havent posted in the last year.
This blog is/was mainly meant to sort of be kind of a journal for myself---too many times I cant remember when some event happened I just sort of recall what else was going on at the time of the event----so I figured I would blog it and be able to document these events in a blog sort of timeline.
Anyhow---here is what is going on right now----still sitting on a bunch of real estate--7 houses---that is a pile of cash that is just waiting to be converted. For much of this year with everything in the economy looking kooky----I felt pretty good about having my cash in a hard tangible asset like real estate----I figured even if the economy completely took a dump I was in a better position with real estate than cash or stocks. Well---although the real estate market has stabilized (somewhat) there is still a ton of fear out there from buyers as well as lenders---so the time has come to sell of my inventory of houses.
I had two properties listed in the last 3-6 months and as of yesterday have two of the properties in escrow--now lets close them. Next on my list is a commercial property that I bought about 5 months ago----It has a pretty interesting "Light Industrial" zoning with super freeway access and you can see it from the freeway itself so--this should make a pretty good rental. I have zero interest in being a landlord but, in this case I am going to give it a try---after that sell the ranch. Funny thing is that I spent about 5K in September cleaning the 5 acres of landscaping and gutting the house only to leave the property vacanct for the last two months---I havent even been over there---nutty.
Kids are getting out of school for winter break next week and we are going to the cabin and begin putting our season passes to work--my goal this year is for me to get 30 days of snowboarding---that would make me feel good. I recently bought a bunch of cameras to tape the action of the kids --got a Vhold HD for my helmet and a super small Kodac for my pocket.
OK---I know this was a boring post but, had to get started with something. Next post will be some vids of the kids. I also am working on some tech ideas---one is for a pretty interesting Iphone App and another is a product post syndication concept. Neither one seems to be out there right now so..I need to get out of these real estate positions and start working on some different stuff.
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