In my experience, life can be pretty complicated. Although most of us have plenty to manage in our day-to-day lives—jobs, relationships, family, exercise, sleep, you name it—there are really only a few things we truly have control over. I changed my life by identifying these variables and learning how to master them. And I think you can too.

Happiness and success (however you define either one) have a lot to do with each other. In fact, greater happiness has been found to lead to greater success. I think both can be achieved with some simple and straightforward habit hacking, or making small tweaks to your routine which, little by little, add up to major changes in how you’re living your life.

Home builders are really happy right now, but it’s mostly just those working on multi-unit housing. Apartment starts are up 416 percent from the 2010 low. Builders are anticipating even more growth in rental demand.
One reason for this growth in apartment construction is that new household formation in the next few years is anticipated to be coming from lower wage-earners. With home prices rising, these households will not only be looking for rentals, they’ll want lower end rents. Apartments are definitely much less expensive to build than single family homes, so rents are always much lower.

I decided to come back and start anew. I am so glad to be back!!! I have missed this place and visiting with everyone here! So I'm starting a second journal. The first one was a great reflection for me, and got me going to do deals, execute and stay accountable.

It has been 5 years since I started my first journal on this site. My life has changed (2 kids later, cashflowing properties and 30+ deals done!). My expertise has changed. My success has changed. My challenges have changed (and some are the same!). And my goals have changed. All these changes deserved a new journal, and a new challenge in staying accountable to bringing it to the next level!

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I Love this Quote:

"Most people don't plan to fail: they fail to plan." John L. Beckley

Why do I love it, because it's true. Those of you that know me know I'm obsessed with goals, accountability and being super efficient. Setting goals is always the first step to your success, but that's usually as far as people make it. We're great at dreaming our bigger better future, but usually fail to work to go after it.

As real estate investors, most of which have lives outside of investing, we have very busy lives. Things are always coming up, life is getting in the way, and next thing we know it's a month later and we have very little to show for it.

So my challenge to you all for the next 5 weeks is to Plan and Execute! So here's what I want to you to do...