@melissadorman: People assume I got lucky, or that somebody handed me something. I was a social worker making $3,000 a month when my dad's Alzheimer's care started costing $7,000. There was nothing to inherit and nobody to ask. That gap is the entire reason I'm here. The smartest thing I did was stop asking a bank for permission. My first year in real estate I did 19 deals, most of them from cold calling people in pre-foreclosure and sitting on strangers' couches while they assumed I was the next vulture in line. Then I bought a triplex in Portland for $731,050 with about $500 of my own money in it, because the seller carried the financing and we set the terms ourselves. I still own it. 5 years later I was the first millionaire in my family, mostly by buying directly from the people who owned the buildings. None of that was luck. It was a repeatable way of finding somebody with a problem and solving it in a way that paid us both. DM me FREEDOM and I'll send you the book, free. 🖤 #sellerfinancing #firstgen #socialworker #consciouswealth #bankonyourneighbor

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