Analyst explaining CRE valuation fundamentals and financing concepts.

Owning and building your own business is extremely hard. The benefit, you get to pick: - your customers - your partners - your team members - the location You spend 2,000 (likely more) hours a year working, optimize for who you do it with

Giving up a large title, role and team can cause an identity crisis, especially as a man. Here’s how to manage it.

That one manager who accidentally made you an entrepreneur. Everyone has one. Takes credit. Micromanages. Let’s you do fine but not as well as them. My worst manager made sure I’d never work for anyone else again.

Most people quit and then try to build. I built and then quit. Before I left corporate I had already signed my first investors, closed my first deals, and had real revenue coming in. The business existed before it was my only option. That’s...

The most successful person you know likely has complete tunnel vision. They ruthlessly focus on one thing and say NO to everything else.

Once you give up a high paycheck, how you operate with your cash changes dramatically - how much you keep on hand - how much you keep accessible in the short term - how long you lock up investments

Building your own company is likely going to take 4x as long and cost 4x as much as you think it will.

The $1M take-home test: → NYC W2 — gross $1.99M → LA W2 — gross $1.92M → Florida W2 — gross $1.52M → Florida biz owner — gross way less → Puerto Rico Act 60 — keep almost all of it Where you live is a...

You deposit $10,000. They pay you $1 a year. Then they lend that same money out at 12%. Then lend it again. And again. One deposit can fuel up to $100,000 in loans through the banking system. All earning interest. None of...

If you earn under $200k/year - the only place you should be investing is in yourself. All your focus needs to be leveling up skills to earn more money. Don’t invest in stocks, real estate or private equity.

5 steps to guarantee you stay broke: 1. Trade time for money permanently 2. Lifestyle creep 3. Limiting or wrong beliefs about investing 4. Buying things to impress others 5. Waiting too long and loosing compound interest

Buying single family homes is a great way to be with $3m. Brutal way to try to hit $50m or $100m+.

Imagine being a grown man and having someone else tell you when you’re allowed to eat lunch??

A great life on paper but no optionality? That is exactly what lifestyle creep will do to you.