This story reminds me of a guy I knew when I first got out of the navy. He was living in a 300,000 house in maine in 1982 working as a GS-5 making about 13,000 per year and I wondered how he did it.
Turned out he bought a house, fixed it up, sold it and repeated the process many times.. Its still possible these days if a person wants it bad enough and no, you don't have to rob banks to do it. Virgil Bierschwale Armstrong and Skipper Real Estate (830) 329-6774 Cell (830) 864-4799 Fax (830) 864-4726 Home http://www.bierschwale.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:24 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Real Environmentalists On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:45 pm, john harvey wrote: > Haha, I welcome IAB, or IRS or anyone else. Hi John! You aren't in Sarasota. Where you are rich cops are, evidently, all right. > I built this house using my > life savings and blood, sweat and tears. It cost me $269,000.00 to build > and is appraised at $464,000.00. I also built the house I lived in before > this one and it is paid for (I paid $80,000.00 for it over 15 years). That > house brings in $1000.00 per month in rent, which pays most of the note on > this one. I also rent my garage apt to one of my son's friends for $300.00 > a month, so I basically pay $200.00 per month to live here, plus taxes and > insurance, etc. > > Leveraging a redneck upbringing (carpentering and such as a young man) is a > good thing. I also majored in Mechanical Design in high school, so my wife > and I designed the house and drew the plans. > > I also have been a consultant for the past 20 years and I've done alright. > I feel very blessed. This is a fairly large house, but it seems my kids are > always cycling through it. My oldest daughter's husband is being deployed > to Iraq next week and she will be moving back her with their three kids. > It's a good thing I've got room! My wife can't wait for the grandkids.... > > Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I started working with the Memphis Police > Department today as a technical consultant. Back in the saddle again. . . . > > Life is good! <snip> > > My house is about 6,000 > > square feet > > Hi John! > > If you were a cop in Sarasota and had a 6000 square foot house internal > affairs would be looking at you very closely. Florida in general, and > Sarasota in particular, likes poor cops. > > Actually, Sarasota likes poor employees in all professions. -- Regards, Pete http://www.pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
