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New Intro

I have chosen to be unemployed :)

I have not had a job in 40 years.

I love working from home and the commute is amazing :)

I love real estate. I got stuck in the comfortable rut of serving my residential retail home buy/sell clients in Western Canada for 36 years as licensed real estate agent. I hated going to the office where all those agents had their coffee clubs :)

I took a lot of courses on How To Do Commercial Real Estate deals, but never broke away from my love of serving customers and executing residential real estate for them.

Major life change brought us to central Florida in 2023 where I’d like to finally do larger deals to fund my passions, provide legacy for family and create a team? Are you open to join strengths and do more in less time and have more fun?

Let me tell you :) You have to be tenacious to survive as a Realtor for 36 years. In residential home sales, I feel I have seen it all, rode the market wave up and over the top and down 4 significant times - what they like to call housing bubbles.

I did some commercial too. The last memorable sale was I listed and sold a 4 acre lumberyard, huge hardware store with tool rental side HOME HARDWARE bought it for a few million.

Numbers , contracts and negotiations are the simple stuff to me.

I was never a great nurturer of past clients. I always went out and did 95% new clients = make it happen activities, rather than wait for it to happen. I had agent friends do the love and nuture way of building repeat business. If you didn’t call me back in 5 years to list your house when making a change, I was ok with that.

I did not enjoy maintaining a list and following up manually. I like automating nurturing and don’t care if it’s not as personalized as Susie who did 95% referral by talking to 10 or 30 future prospects per day from her sphere list.

So having a nurturer to work with would add value to me and them. You can have the database :)

I can see how this was a weakness of mine when it comes to finding hard money or whatever source would be needed for a deal, well previously I was too satisfied/comfortable to pursue lender relationships. Maybe someone else has already nurtured those and knows the best ones to get closed deals funded hassle free from = no drama lenders?

I am bad at accounting paperwork management. I need bookkeeping service or that type of team person. Let me go ride my Seadoo and motorcycle and when I get back I will be energized and make some more paperwork for someone.

I love creating a win/win, getting my legal binding contract executed and baby it past the closing table to payday. That I can do well and I enjoy problem solving to get it done. It’s disappointing to work with people that aren’t open minded about legal solutions that lead to a closed deal. I will keep giving solutions until we find one that works. Whereas I have met so many that won’t expand their minds/options.

I have proven to be a life long learner. I don’t know it all. I don’t have all the solutions, but I dig until I can find them.

I hate being at odds with people and litigations to fight for some angle they found on a partner etc.

I have never sued someone and have never been sued. If that’s what you like, and have your litigation lawyer on speed dial, then I am not the person to work with. Once I catch wind of anyone like that…. Poof, where did he go? There is too much abundance to get angles on people and cut a piece off them.

If you read this far and looked at my profile, you may have idea how we could add value to each other.

So what’s my goal?

#1. To set up a Charitable Foundation to feed house and clothe thousands of orphans.

Fund orphanages.

Support other orphanage ministries already established and travel to go buy existing ie hotels/ apartments and lands to give the underprivileged a support base, give children a chance at a much better life.

Pay the wages of house parents and support staff.

Let’s say 100 units at 100% personal. So splitting some deals, or taking bird dog fees etc until I can do my own.

Maybe buy one multi- unit for every orphanage or whatever the ratio works out to be.

#2. To buy an airplane/ or rent blocked flight time : to travel and inspect properties/ opportunities. I got my commercial pilots license in 1996 to be a safer pilot. I love flying. I see airplane shares for sale in cities around me, but none local?

#3. Buy an acreage beside a waterway where I can have my fruit trees and garden, go boating right from home. A huge shop to store some classic cars and tinker. Keep a Small helicopter to fly to the airport and get the plane or have an acreage on an airport.

#4. To upgrade my house to get a pool. July/ August is so hot. We could not get a home for our price point with a pool when we bought in 2023 and I didn’t realize how messed up the beaches are after a hurricane. The ocean gets polluted and takes a while to clear the red tide happening right now. We live right near a best rated beach in USA - Anna Maria Island

#5. Create legacy for my Grad 2026 teenage daughter. So after high school is college fund. We gave her a teenagers dream first car a few months back and insurance is high for a new driver. She had her first parking lot fender bender a few weeks ago, where we got to pay for both repairs as she wrecked her friends car door in school parking lot. New levels and new expenses require new money.

Wherever she moves, it would be cool to own the apartment building.

I can be here every day for more hours than most people.

If you think we can help each other go faster- let me know. Feel free to message me.

If you are a sold out Christian like our family and my orphanage funding vision is what would motivate you to take actions on behalf of kids who need help. Let me know.

We currently fund monthly 4 kids in India. We have funded and continue to support ongoing work in :

1- Cebu Philipines(aprox 40 children on a fenced acreage away from the city where the police continue to bring children that were sex traffiked on the streets. Usually parents unknown or had sold them into sex slavery.

2- china blind orphans -poor parents give up blind kids there.

3- Nairobi genocide kids- 150 were left alive when their parents were killed in tribal conflict- in partnership with a pastor and his church on outskirts slums, we have built housing, community medical clinic and a large school to minister to the slum and these kids. In the last 4 years, some of the kids are aging out and become lawyers etc. some we buy sewing machines for as that their calling. Whatever education the child is drawn to, they are funded.

Myanmar , 60 kids one pastoral man and his family , built them 2 home as the govt doesn’t allow boys and girls to share home- yet do not budget funds to care for orphans themselves. Bought them a rice acreage and a tractor to work the crops. Joel has worked hard to be self sufficient, but recent war had them relocate into India for a while- that added expenses and we bought them a cargo truck to be able to transport the kids safely
China blind orphans, poor parents give them up - some get adopted out
Mexico - multiple properties and with this group we give monthly, over 4000 kids cared for
Sponsoring 4 kids directly in India through pastor brother in law we met in Texas church.
Cebu Philippines - large fenced acreage, adding houses as need arrive- police deliver the rescued sex trafficking kids , some as young as 3 years old- none denied.
Nairobi tribal war left 150 kids orphaned and living in slum that has the sewers running down the streets - one pastor and wife stepped up, we support them- we have built medical center, and the last year has replaced the termite infested wood school into a 2 story concrete school where the local slum kids get to attend as well. They have transformed the outlook there. The government salutes them, but has no budget for them.
There is more - but you get the idea

So that’s what I want to be more about- my father’s business.

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