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01/02/2026

📚Memento Mori: A reminder that you will die.
“You could leave life right now, let that determine what you do, and say, and think” - Marcus Aurelius

🗒️Random questions/statements I like that could help during end of year/new year. Mostly from James Clear & Tim Ferriss

• Every action you take, is a vote for the person you wish to become.

• If someone could only see your actions and not hear your words, what would they say are your priorities?

• Can my current habits carry me to my desired future? What would the person I wish to be do today?

• Look around the places you spend the most time, are they supporting the habits you want? Do they make them obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying? How can you improve it to discourage the habits you don’t want, and encourage the ones you do?

• Stop trying to optimize a habit you are not consistently doing. Build the habit, even an imperfect version of what you’re thinking. You can optimize it later.

• Where do I want to be in 10 years? Visualize it in great detail, how am I spending my time, how does it feel, why do I want this. (Back track to determine what incredibly simple habit I need to do daily for this to happen)

• What would it look like if it were easy?

• What goals do I have in mind? What habits do I need to achieve them? Now how can I simplify the habit down to something that takes less than 2 minutes per day? (Think about simplifying the process of getting started, if you have the consistent habit of starting, the rest will be easy to improve)

• People who achieve their goals or are successful aren’t perfect, they know how to fail and keep going anyways. How to show up, even if it’s imperfect. They just take action, don’t wait for perfection or ideal circumstances. James Clears workout example: He is a person who doesn’t miss workouts, how? He always has the option to adjust the scope and duration if needed as long as he gets the workout in. Sometimes that means doing a couple sets of pushups. But getting a 5 minute workout in 1 day, is better than skipping it completely.

• If someone else came to me with the same problems, questions, scenarios I have - what advice would I give them?

12/22/2025

🎅A visit from Santa (from ‘24) both boys had the flu this year and were struggling when Santa visited them lol but it’s special every time

11/25/2025

📹 Video practice 2017

11/06/2025

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07/22/2022

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🏡Property sold!

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Every time we sell or refinance a property I make time to review and ask some specific questions to identify:

• What we did right?
• What we did wrong?
• Where did we get lucky?
• Where could we have done better to increase our chances of having better luck?

Overall, the point of these is to practice being self-aware, understanding the role luck plays in each outcome, and to focus on our process and identify the overall quality of the process itself, despite the outcome.

So, here’s my somewhat brief answers.

• What we did right?

🏠We identified a great house, in a great market, ran our numbers, we were conservative and we found a way to invest at a time where houses were getting harder to find.

• What we did wrong?

👷🏻‍♂️Tried doing to much work myself, which lead to an extremely long rehab. This house could have been flipped in 1-2 months had I done that.

• Where did we get lucky?

👨‍👩‍👦 A few areas.. the major one is the absurd appreciation of homes due to covid and supply, this allowed us to sell far beyond our estimated numbers and far beyond what the house truly should sell for. That’s not our skill, 100% luck. The other luck is my taking so long on the rehab allowed us to move into the home temporarily while we refinanced and rented another home. This got our best rental to date stabilized and allowed us to have a temporary home (even though it wasn’t the plan, or ideal). The last part here is we sold just before rates started rising, any longer on the hold and this could have been a real disaster. That’s very lucky.

• Where could we have done better to increase our chances of having better luck?

👩‍🎨 Let the real arises (contractors) do the work… maybe. This one is tricky. As mentioned above, we took way to long, I should have hired out the work and flipped this house in 2-3 months max.. that would have been the best way to flip this home, but I don’t think we would have sold it anywhere near where we did. Still, I would’ve been more proud of the outcome had we hired out the work.

Hope this helps!

07/21/2022

New Date NH Meet Up -

My name is Greg Andrade, the company founder. With an experienced team with over twenty years of industry experience and hundreds of successful renovations, we are well equipped to take on real estate projects of all sizes. From straightforward to complex, I navigate each job with expertise and meti...

06/06/2022

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03/03/2022

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🏘 & with the most recent 📝closing… we finish a wild few weeks of closing 3, 3 family properties in about 3 weeks.

We definitely will not be averaging buying 1 property per week going forward but everything fell together for these 3 and we’re glad it worked out.

Now the big focus is getting them ✅renovated and ✅rented asap!! So we can get money coming in, not out.

Recently two people I was talking to joked about me having a lot of money when they heard about these properties and I always want to clarify.. I do not lol if you want to be impressed by anything it could be that we’re investing despite having very little money.

We don’t have much money and I honestly do not care about money, I care a lot about my time which is why I invest. So I can have time to be with family, do what I want, work on stuff that’s fun and interesting to me regardless of how much money it makes. We aren’t there yet but these properties are another tiny step in that direction.

01/29/2022

Our Next Meet-Up -

Since I started learning about real estate around 5-6 years ago I've heard through numerous podcasts, books, in-person conversations about how hot the market is.. worse I've heard endless people reference the hot market as a major reason they are waiting to invest, or having trouble investing. So ...

12/23/2021

Our Next Meet-Up -

I've been extremely lucky to connect with incredibly kind & generous people in real estate, all starting from a free membership on BiggerPockets.com in 2016. Today, I still regularly feel like a fraud when I talk to these people because I have no idea what I'm doing. Still, they continue to offer t...