WHAT IS YOUR WHY? GRANT TREVITHICK
Are you willing to fail more times than you succeed? Are you willing to be discouraged and disappointed?
Are you willing to spend hours and hours in your car each day? Leaving early in the morning and get home late in
the evening? Are you willing to put 30,000+ miles on your car / truck each year?
Are you willing to work when it is 105 degrees in the
summer? When it is thundering and raining? How about
when it is 5 degrees and snowing? Or icing?
Are you willing to clean out dirty nasty houses? Dealing
with flea and bed bug infested houses? Drug houses?
Are you willing to clean dirty kitchens, with food left over
for weeks or even months? Scrub toilets that just plain
nasty and disgusting?
Are you willing to listen to the most heartbreaking excuses and still ask someone to get out of the house? Are you
willing to spend thousands of dollars on lawyers taking houses back when the seller uses the law to avoid paying
their mortgage payments and yet do not want to move out?
Are you willing to be discouraged, wonder if you will ever buy and or sell another house again, feel like a total
failure? And still get out of bed each morning and do what has to be done?
Funny, they do not show that part of the business on television, do they?
If you cannot answer, “absolutely, sounds like fun” to each one of these, then real estate investing is not right for
you.
If you can think of anything else to do that would allow you to reach your goals, then my best advice is forget being
a real estate investor and pursue that other avenue. If, on
the other hand, you cannot imagine doing anything else,
then perhaps you might have what it takes to be successful.
Real estate investing is a marathon, not a sprint. If you do
investing right, it is not a get rich quick scheme. Working our
model, you can become a millionaire in a short period of
time, if you are willing to work hard enough and run the
business in an honest manner.