When you’re young and/or you don’t have a lot of life experience, making major life decisions is often difficult because what feels right to you internally doesn’t always align with what parents, society, and friends are urging you to do. I wrestled with this and learned the hard way that making decisions guided by the approval of others leads to misery.
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How I Bought a 2bdrm Condo in Manhattan Making Less Than $40k/year. Hint: You Can Do It Too!
Cash flowing real estate ownership has been a huge (and largely accidental) part of my journey to financial freedom. I’ll share this portion of my story with the BIG caveat that real estate isn’t for everyone and it doesn’t always work out for everyone. That said, the fact that I was able to make itContinue reading “How I Bought a 2bdrm Condo in Manhattan Making Less Than $40k/year. Hint: You Can Do It Too!”
Turn Set Backs Into Set Ups
I was in my early 20s living in NYC – a lovely little neighborhood in northern Manhattan called Harlem. My first place was a basement room with no windows in a beautiful 3 level brownstone right across morningside park from my alma mater, Columbia University. The rent was $500/mos including utilities. At first my spaceContinue reading “Turn Set Backs Into Set Ups”