We are currently in the process of building a website. She can reach out to Mary and connect with her for help.

@Gena Kirkwood you should consider talking to the main contractor and ask if you can pay the subcontractors directly? They will probably say no. But you can also ask them to have the subcontractor assigned lien releases.

@Gena Kirkwood just as an aside this is not a slam on home, inspectors in general. But some of them do everything they can to find things wrong even when it’s not. In fact, the majority of home inspectors would never tell you that there is something wrong with your foundation, they would not take on that liability. Instead, they would tell you that they would have the foundation checked out, and they would have you hire a foundation company or an engineer to determine the viability of the foundation. They will scare the daylights out of you. And so will many of the foundation companies that you would call up. Many times you are just hearing the opinion of a home inspector. It’s not always a good one. We recently had a deal fall apart because of a home inspector who recommended to the buyers a foundation company. The foundation company came in and said that the house needed over $30,000 worth of work and the people backed out. Our guys went back out to check out the foundation and saw nothing wrong. We put the house back on the market, and let me know that the Building inspectors were heavily involved with this project, got a new buyer who got a new home inspection and there was nothing wrong. We didn’t do anything to the foundation. There are no companies that I like less than foundation repair companies. On a previous project of mine, my own personal rental property my property manager called in a foundation company for a sinking sidewalk. I was so furious with my property manager. The property management company got a quote from the foundation company for $26,000. Keep in mind I have been doing this for decades. My contractors can inspect the house better than a home inspector. They actually fix them. We went out and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the foundation. Sinking sidewalk was not tied to the foundation. The foundation company said that my floors were sloping inside of the house. We went in with levels and with marbles on hardwood floor floors. There was a half inch of fall in the floor. But the funny thing is, it went the opposite direction they said it did.

@John Battle sounds like you have some great coaches. When it comes to unwinding yourself I sometimes recommend doing nothing. Do nothing for 90 days. You have to reset yourself. Your condition to doing something every day whether it’s work or being productive. After 90 days of nothing you get to realize that you don’t have to operate the way that you always have. And you get to choose what you do moving forward. It’s just like developing a new habit.

@John Battle I agree what you’re thinking. I’m at that phase in my life where I’m trying to finish well also. That may look different for many of us. Avoiding taxes is one of the easier parts. I have not thought as much about all the different structures and where to have money and things like that. I am still a little bit in build mode myself. Not that I need it. It’s just the way that I’m designed. I’m now building with my kids. I’m trying to give them a start that I didn’t have. My plan is not to die with zero although I can’t take anything with me. My goal is to give it all the way to causes that I believe in. One of those causes may be my children if I have raised them well. While I’m alive right now, my goal is to teach them values. It is to teach them family values. It is to teach them business values. If they demonstrate to me that they can be trusted then I would leave the family business and assets to them. Part of that value system is that they would be generous. If I were to just die and give it all the way to other ministries, those ministries would get something from me one time. But if my kids were taught values, God honoring values they could continue to give long beyond my passing.

I was thinking the same question for Facebook today just to see what people thought. My answer is yes, it is no problem. Price of houses is a factor, but with $500k+ houses it is a regular occurrence.

@Brad Jordan I like to keep things simple. I would always just offer cash for houses. Whether it is using my own cash or private money or a line of credit, I keep that part simple that it gets the best deals. If you want to make six figures, you need to deal with bigger numbers. It’s not uncommon to see people make six figures with homes that are in the $400,000 range. It’s also not easy. But once you get to 600,000 or 700,006 figure profits become more of the norm. You can make considerably more than that.