Rehablist.com | One Mower, One Man, One Dream

If you had seen me 14 years ago, this what you have seen as you see on the screen right now. I was in a rock n' roll band roughly on my twenties.

I have a great time with that band, i was a lead vocals on that band called voyager. The original name was flesh picnic we changed it to voyager in the last couple of years. If i could make in rock n' roll i would have. I tried through out in my twenties but i did quite make it and at 29 that's where i start real estate investing.





I live to this apartment house throughout my twenties, we have a lot of great times on the second floor. There's one bedroom on the right and the living room was here, the kitchen is also here. We have a lot of parties after all those gigs up there but in reality in all throughout in my twenties i struggled in this apartment building. I struggled because there is not enough cash coming in. I have bills coming in, but not a lot of cash.




When i was 28 years old i realized that it is probably time to do something to change my life. I was tired living that life. I started a leased mowing company, i literally went door to door in spring time in the Boston area, that is where I'm from as you can see there's snow in the ground here when i took this picture. In spring time in April, i went to different neighborhoods and i look for a yard to head high grass.

I went knock on their doors and asked those people if i could do lawn service for the year, and that' how i started my business. I used to put this picture on my wall for motivation and i used to tell people "One Man, One Mower, One Dream!" because i want to be a landscape king of the world.

The problem in Boston we have this so called winter and it comes around every six months and it's like a bad relative that hangs out for six months. In the winter time i struggled, i did all kinds of odd jobs just to get by. I used to have a lot snow plowing, i used to sell all kinds of membership cards.

Fortunately for me i have a friend that work for a bank and they foreclosed on a property and he knew i was struggling during the winter and he asks me to do repairs on that property and i said "absolutely".

That time i would have done anything to get money coming in to my apartment and i don't know how to do any repairs on this property and i didn't know to bid the repairs. So i got my cousin to go over there with me and he help put the numbers together.

We sent it to the bank to bid and the bid came back and we are low bidders and they congratulate us. I remember looking at my cousin,

"Hey look, we won the job, this is awesome"

and he said

"Yeah, this is awesome. But what do you mean we? I didn't know how to do this bid and put the numbers together, do you think i know anything of this work?"

So he could helped me a little bit but not as much what i have hoped. I went to home depot to those seminars during weekends and i know how to put on doors, floors and paints. But what i really learned is that i'm not gonna be really good on any of that stuff.

But what I'm good at is calling the contractors, calling friends and family members in getting the first job done. Got the first job done, the bank asks to bid another one. I was able to do that one, they asked me to bid a third one, i did that. They like the work on that one.

At that time i realized that people flipping this properties, there are actually two kinds of people that coming in to this houses. They were the homeowners that brought their own tape measure and their primary concern was whether or not their furniture is gonna fit.

And then there are the investors, whose primary concern was

"What's wrong with the property?"

So the investors asks me a lot of questions and i started asking them a lot of questions like

"How much do you make on this deal?"

and they telling me $20,000, $30,000, $40,000 on a flip, and i thought if i could just have those wind falls coming to my apartment that will be huge difference in my life. So i started doing exactly what you are doing now. I started listening to successful people on teleconferences, i started to get books and tapes and started listening to their systems.

In within a very short period of time i have enough money to do my first deal. Actually not that enough money, but not enough information on the first deal but i have a problem. The problem wasn't that i haven't enough money at that time i had only $800 at the bank.

It wasn't the fact back then that my credit is wasn't so great . The problem is that was "fear" i'm afraid to do my first deal. Can you actually relate to that? being fearful on that first deal and i discovered that there are two ways to get over that fear.