My Story
Sorry, You Don’t Even Qualify to Buy a Mobile Home!
We just arrived in Ohio from an overseas assignment and started looking for a place to live. It was June 1991. Marieta and I had been married for about seven months and we had a child on the way; baby due in November. We had met and married in Australia and now we were starting […]
House in Huber Heights. Let’s Buy One to Live In!
Setting: Circa 1993. We were living in Huber Heights, Ohio. I was working at Wright-Patterson, AFB in the propulsion laboratory as a engineer. I had just left my career in the Air Force in December 1992. I now worked for a small company based in Dayton, Ohio. This is the story about buying our first […]
The Beginning – My First Property Investment
My first real estate investment was an acre of land in Florida. This is how I got started. Here’s the story .. Want to go to Florida for the Weekend? “Hey, Dave! We’re going to Florida this weekend. Wanna go?” my Mom half jokingly yelled out. I had just arrived home on military leave and […]
Where’s the Expert?
I learned a valuable lesson one day helping my Dad put in the garage cement floor. We had plenty of cement, plenty of manpower but we were missing one key element. You’ll find out the missing element by reading the article. The lesson I learned that day has saved me lots of time, aggravation and […]
The Day my Dad Lost His Job
“What a beautiful sunny afternoon.” I thought to myself as I waited for my ride home. Mom was going to pick me up from school. Kind of a treat because it beats taking the bus and it beats the two mile walk. The bus is not very exciting because we’re the last stop, so it […]