We don't all fit in...yet

All of that being said Tony, it is obvious you have a bit of a "serial entrepenuer" streak in you.

I'm curious, do you think your next venture--whatever that may be--will be another "new" business, i.e. something nobody has done?

Do you see greater value in being the Creator of an industry?

I have some opinions on this, but I'll wait to see what you say first.
 
Tony I have always found your stories and videos to be very interesting but this story has got to be the most interesting and insperational thus far. Please continue to share your stories with us. Trust me you fit in here more than you know. God Bless you and your family. As I'm sure you already know, The good Lord will never put a mountain infront of you that he knows you can't climb. I'ts just that some refuse to try and climb the mountains infront of them or give up. You are definetly a climber! Thanks so much for sharing Tony. 10 thumbs up! :)
 
JFife said:
Wow Tony, those posts made my day!

A question if I may---what happened in '07,08 that caused a 300k turnaround?

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In 06 our house appraised at $825k. We ordered a second appraisal and it came in at $815k. So we were pretty confident it was correct.

The house across the street sold for $751k to an investor who immediately put it up for sale at $895k without even cleaning it up.

8 months ago that same house across the street sold for $475k. That's what happened in 07-08. Almost overnight.

At that time a one br condo was over $140k. Now you can buy a four bedroom house for that price.

1 in 48 homes in this city right now are IN foreclosure. Of the one's that are left almost half are at least 30 days late. I think we are hit harder than most states because our economy relies on 500,000 tourists a day and they aren't coming now.
 
JFife said:
Wow Tony, those posts made my day!

A question if I may---what happened in '07,08 that caused a 300k turnaround?

Thanks for posting that scripture from Luke. I needed to read that today. You know, everyone always says (regarding money), "You can't take it with you!" Isn't that the truth. I try to keep a perspective by remembering that at any given moment, everything...EVERYTHING I've worked for/been blessed with can come crashing down. If I'm lucky, I could crash down to an even zero. Not so lucky, could crash to extreme debt (through health, injury, lawsuit, etc). Earth is certainly not where we should lay up our treasures.

Real quick....I heard a story about Donald Trump one time. Back in the (I think) late 90's is when the NYC economy fell, and Trump lost BIG TIME. As I recall the story, he was walking through the city with a lady friend, when the came upon a homeless person. She says, "aw, I feel so sorry for that guy...he has nothing."

Trump said, "You know what, he may have nothing, but I'm 900million dollars in debt!! Financially, I'd give anything to trade places with that guy!"

Of course what the homeless man didn't have was a CAPACITY to rapidly get out of 900MM debt, and now be worth 3-5B. So no matter what you ever lose, nobody can take away what you've learned, the tough lessons, and your ability to stare risk in the face and say, "bring it."
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Jon - yep...my thoughts exactly....bring it on!!! Good post brother....
 
JFife said:
All of that being said Tony, it is obvious you have a bit of a "serial entrepenuer" streak in you.

I'm curious, do you think your next venture--whatever that may be--will be another "new" business, i.e. something nobody has done?

Do you see greater value in being the Creator of an industry?

I have some opinions on this, but I'll wait to see what you say first.
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I'm not interested in starting another venture. It takes too much out of a person. It's exhausting.

Here's an example. When I spent almost 8k on electrostatic filters on the three big box stores I was full of confidence that I had put the right filters in them.

When service time came and I weighed them, then tried to clean them I realized I had made a huge mistake and that I would have to change my entire method for larger stores I was devastated. I didn't sleep for about 3 nights. I thought I had reached a brick wall with no way out.

I questioned everything. I questioned God. I questioned my own sanity because I had put all my eggs in that one basket.

But God opened another door because of that problem, then another and another. It's exciting but draining at the same time.

I see a great value in finding something you like to do that others will pay you for. Regardless of what that might be.

But I'm tired of learning. I've built the machine now I want to just let the machine work. I hope you can understand that.

If you can find a way to do something cheaper, faster and more economical with better results I say do it, regardless of whether you are in new field or an established one. Look at Ron, he's doing the same thing as everyone else here, but he's FAST and gets those frequent cleaning accounts.
 
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