So I took a break from real estate for a few weeks. I was getting a little too stressed out with work, church, kids, and life so I had to take a break and recharge. It’s been about a month or so, and now I’m back! The kick in the pants I needed came yesterday.
I got an email about a free webinar about a new method of wholesaling properties and decided I should attend. I signed up and asked my wife to watch/listen to it with me. We did, and it got us excited about real estate again. And the best part came afterwards when we talked about why I haven’t been doing anything with real estate for a while.
I admitted to her that I just needed a break, but I also told her that I hadn’t gotten back into it yet because I didn’t want to disappoint her. Recently money has been tight for us, and it’s caused from friction in our relationship. And being a new real estate investor, chances are higher than I would like that I could make a mistake that will cost us potentially quite a bit of money and I didn’t want to risk adding to the problem we already had if it was going to cause even more friction between us because of money.
She said that she understood, and that she thinks we should go for it anyway. She said she is behind me and trusts that I will do the best I can and if something happens we’ll just deal with it, but if we don’t do anything then we don’t have any excuse for struggling. That’s all I needed. Now that I know my wife is behind me for real, even if I make a mistake (which I don’t intend to do), I’m ready to get back into it again!
Stay tuned… this is going to be fun!
