Is Cash Flow Important? When Should You Throw In The Towel?

Is cash flow important? It is, this is what makes a difference in your life on a month to month basis. But just to be clear it's not the only important thing. I'm not in real estate only for the cash flow but for another very important reason.

Why I continue to focus on real estate especially Rent to Own homes is the feeling of helping a family that deserves the help. To me, this is the real reward. You can feel it in their handshake, their hugs and the occasional small droplets of joyful tears when you hand them the keys to their new home. It's a pay if forward feeling.

As much as I love going out searching for properties, my real passion is helping as many people as I can into home ownership. There's another side as well. I also enjoy helping the beginning investor trying to purchase their first investment property, or the veteran real estate guru working on their ninth home. It's a good.... no, great feeling at the end of the day when I lay down to say, we helped another family.

Is it always smooth sailing.... not a chance. There are bumps in the road from time to time but like anything in life that's worth attaining, you have to work hard at it.

Could you call it a win if you couldn't lose?

Could you call a touchdown a touchdown by running the length of the football field with no opponents?

This is your life..... only you can make the changes in it that you want. If you're not where you want to be in life, the only person you have to blame is yourself. Once you stop shifting the blame to your boss for the job you hate, your spouse because they didn't take out the garbage, or the driver that cut you off in rush hour.... then you're on the right track for taking on the responsibilities of your own actions.

Real Estate has taught me some valuable lesson.

It's not what happens to you but what you do about it that makes the difference in your life. You see, all the challenging things that happen to you is what make you stronger. What life doing is preparing you for the next big challenge to come your way. So if you're not facing those obstacles head on from time to time, then you're not truly growing. don't wish for less problems, work on acquiring more skills.

For instance, a few months ago I faced one of the biggest obstacles with one of my properties. I could of rolled up in a ball and said, I'm done!!

Instead, I decide to push through it and through that, I learned a great deal from the experience. I then add it to my system of things to always do, to check and to double check. Not only do I grow from the problem I encountered, I get a chance to teach my valuable learning lesson to others so others can learn from my mistakes too.