Mexico , frustration , and $$$

Hey Everyone, it's been a lil bit since I've posted last. First week of march I was in Mexico (cruise to Cozumel) on my spring break with some friends, had a great time.. although it was some retarded cold front so it was pretty chilly, like 50deg, we went to keywest and everyone was like "This is the coldest it's been in 50 years" lol, kinda sucked for us, but we still made the best of it and had a great time.. i'll put up some pics. Oh yea,, i also learned that Happy hour in at south beach is not so happy.. I bought 4 drinks and it came upto $120 bucks! WTF! would I do a cruise again? Hmm maybe like an alaskan cruise, or world cruise or something, but not a cruise carribean. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but when we go on vacations me and my gf like to explore.. on the cruise we only had like 3 hours in KY and 8 hours in mexico.. and the rest of the time it was like staying in a hotel for 4 days without going anywhere. plus it was cold, so i personally didnt get in the pool or lay out.. but some crazies were. it was cool there, we had a bunch of friends with is

Well, the RE market in my area is about shitty right now, i've been hunting for cash buyers for some time, i put out home made signs on plastic (similar to tampastephs) ,i got some calls.. but most of the calls are from people who want to buy a house, or investors wondering if i had access to money ?? lol I managed to dump the house i had under contract to a local guy, who didn't want the house but wanted to help me out so that was nice of him, i made a whopping $500 on the deal, but time was running out, i had to get rid of it.

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I'm just really growing in frustration, i had huge plans at the beginning of the year, but now that financing has basically dried up, i don't know what to do. I honestly don't know. I can find the deals, that's not the problem, but i can't find buyers with money! Greensboro, NC is not really a hot spot for RE. There are not many people running to greensboro with a ton of cash to invest. I went to the REIA meeting last week, and the guy who i knew was buying everything.. isnt buying anything anymore.. He's one of the first guys a met in greensboro who was really out there buying up a lot of rentals and all that. He said he's just going to slow down for a little while...whatever that means. Ugh, just at a loss.. well, i hope something changes for us all soon
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Okay, ebay:
I'm really glad I have multiple streams of income. Right now, i have my first item closing that I have been working for the last 4 months on. I don't even have them on hand yet, but will have them on hand tomorrow. Basically, i was able to get manufactured this item that is selling today for $.80 cents!! You know what the current bid is?? $101!! I was thinking it would go up to $40-$50 but 101! Wow. This new venture has nearly cost me 10grand for the whole development process, but in about a month or 2 i'll make that back and everything will be gravy .. but now it's about to be gravy. I have some items that I know will sell for $300 that cost me about $5 to make. After it's all said an done, i've calculated (conservatively) I should be able to profit about $8000-$10,000) per month on these, this is on top of my current $3000-$4000 profit on my "old school" ebay biz. This is like 1 good real estate deal, but you know what lol $$$ is $$$


The Job situation:
Last week, I called and denied the offer. :) Reason being, I can get paid much more then 77k if I get an industry job not related with the government. 2) i like working for myself..so this is my plan. After I graduate, I'm going to take a year break from school (i've been in higher ed since 2001) I'm going to work on my business's and really hit it hard.. if a year goes by and i'm broke then I'll get in the job market, heck my Environmental Analytical Chemist license lasts for 3 years so finding a job a year from now shouldn't be hard. So thats what my plan is..

Oh yeah,
i'll upload a few pics (read the captions :)

Den

PS: before i finished uploading the pics , i checked out the auction and it's upto $127 with 2 hours left..i'm simply amazed


This is what it looked like in greensboro NC when we left. All seeason, we asked for snow.. well we finally got it at the worst time... to make a LOOONG story short it took as 6hours to get to the airport which is 45mins away.



this was during the "captains ball"




my and my good mate greg


This is the REAL spong BOB..found him in key west


This was the bar in cozumel where we spent a conciderable amount of time at.. :)



we don't have one of these where i'm from



ignore steph's hair..she been swimmin all day lol


My friend, who we now call scube steve haha


our boat is on the right.. i never knew how big these things were


i have never seen manicans with breast implants lol, only at south beach i guess??



some friends we met, they were on rollar blades , they showed us all the hot spots


i was mad that my GF's drink was bigger then mine haha yes.. these were the $30 drinks (i guess i should have listened to my inner self "Den, there are no prices on the drinks.. they will cost you a pretty penny" lol


These are some of the friends we went with. See the white guy with the sport coat on? I beat him in the ping pong competition :) he was pretty good to i knew he was gonna beat me, but i was more consistent then him, but his slams were crazy i couldnt keep up lol, so really he beat himself but hey, his loss :)