Week 4

Well its finally Friday, and that means no school. Well at least no going to the school, but it always seems to mean a bunch of homework. This week was test week and I felt somewhat comfortable taking my tests but I think that was my downfall. becasue on all of my tests that I was 'comfortable' with, I didnt take the extra time to sharpen up what I didnt know. And I think that could have hurt me on the tests. Oh well, cant change the past, only the future.

My latest entreprenuerial decision was this past week. My wife and I found a property in a smaller town in Texas that has a house on it but the house is 50 years old and in poor condition. However it was a corner lot and the price was way to 'once in a lifetime' to pass up. So I called the guy and he told me that he grew up in it, its old, needs lots of work, and it hasnt been lived in for 20 years. I really wanted to buy this land cuz it seemed like a win win. Wether we wanted to simply tear the house down and rebuild or to sell the bare lot, either way I felt like we couldnt lose on this one just because of the price we would be getting it for. Then my wife suddenly tells me 'we cant buy someone's childhood home! They are gonna be so sad if we tear their house down!' Needless to say, I still havent ben able to convince her that that is ok and it happens all the time. So no investment yet. Oh, and the taxes I believe were something like 150/year. Pretty good stuff. So I think I am going to keep on trying to convince her cuz it is just to good to pass up.

Some thoughts updates about work. While I have been waiting on sigining with a real estate brokerage, I decided to go and take all the tests to get a Commercial Drivers License. Dont ask me why cuz the only reason I can think of was it might boost my resume' to have as many certifications and license's as I can. So all took all 6 tests, and I passed all 6. Including Hazardous Materials. So i thought well, I could drive fuel tankers or even propane trucks or something of that nature while I am waiting for the real estate market. So I was asked to go get fingerprinted and get a background check done through TSA for the next 30 days and then they said that I would be good to go. Believe it or not, it kind of sounds corny, but I am pretty excited to drive around and get paid. Even if it is a big rig! Soome other business decisions, that I have thought about doing for myself or even just starting it and handing it over to one of my brothers or somethng like that; is that of a used appliance store. Now it probably wouldnt be that easy to be super successful in the valley or a big city. But do it in a small town like a Safford or something like that. I think it really could be successful just becasue of the number of folks that are always getting rid of their washers and dryers and even refridgerators just becasue one little thing went wrong. Well all you need is some handy hands and a couple of phone numbers to purchase small appliance parts and 'voila'! You would then have your used appliances. I dont know how lucrative it would be, but it sounds fun to me if nothing else!

Week 3

Some financial desisions of note this past week would be a decision to buy some airline tix to fly back to Boston for spring break. I was certain that we (my wife and I) were going to buy these tickets last night that we had found for 90 dolars each way which was an amazing deal! However after talking it over with my wife, we decided to not 'waste our money' that we dont have and wait til we are a bit more financially stable hopefully in the summer. Instead we decided to pay off the remainder of our lease until June, so we can save basically all of our income until June before we have any major bills to pay! I thought it was a good idea just because it will help us to save for either a down payment on a house or maybe an improvement on a 0down house in June. Thats the goal anyway, so we'll see. As for employment, I am still waiting on a call form my #1 prospect for work in leasing homes with a property management and I still dont want to just be an agent that just buys and sells houses.

As for education, I am excited for most of the classes this semester except for Calculus. It seems to be quite a speedbump for me in grasping these concepts that I learned 5 years ago as a junior in high school. But Accounting is great as 240 seems to be alot more exciting than 230 and I think that is an indication of what area I would like to work in. Business Stats is very interesting and I enjoy the instrucotrs patience and knowledge. And last of all Psych132 is lets just say exactly what you would think it would be. All the students tend to be very liberal and take every word from the instructors opinions as doctrine and truth instead of bias and pure opinion. But oh well I am having fun with it and making sure that not my opinion is heard as well.