Real estate · financial freedom

Freedom is timeyou don't have to ask for

A paycheck buys groceries. It doesn't buy back your Tuesday. If you're starting to look at property as the way out, you'll make expensive mistakes on your first one. I made mine in public, with the numbers left in, so yours can cost less.

Video slot: One Old House walk-through (Nick records)

Start with my first flip

One Old House, start to finishA 1908 house bought in the 130s. About six months late, the buyer walked, and I still own it. Eight short chapters, each with what it cost me.
The story

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The money map

One page, three buckets for every dollar that comes in: live on it, grow it, give it (I give 15%). Plus the one debt rule I hold myself to: borrow only when the asset's cash flow covers the payment with room to spare, and keep reserves.

Get on the list and it comes to you first.

Tools I use to decide

Fact / Testable / FantasySort any deal idea into do-it-today, file-it, or parked-with-a-price-tag.
Free tool
The Decision ForcerDoes this decision deserve any more of your life? Sets the date you stop thinking about it.
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Why your side gig wants an LLCA real container for the thing you keep almost starting. Ask your accountant and attorney where it counts.
Free tool

Own a house you need gone?

I buy houses in Washington and Dakota County, MN, and I'll tell you straight if you shouldn't sell yours to me. I have a house →

What's coming

Financial freedom basics, learned in public: the no-debt camp vs. the leverage camp, what I'm actually doing as a first-time investor, and what it costs when I get it wrong. Not "how I got free." I'm not there yet, and I'll say so.

Nothing on this page is financial, legal or tax advice. It's one investor's notes, honest about the misses.

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