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In order to save money, I did things differently, so that, one day, I could purchase real estate in Florida.Focus on your goalFocus on your goal + discipline toward making that goal a reality (consisting of breaking it down into steps, then taking action to make it happen) will bring that goal into reach, something tangible where you see results.Living cheap in downtown West Palm Beach, FloridaFor years, I had lived in a giant warehouse with a group of artists, writers, drifters, dreamers, in the corner of a quonset hut about 50 feet from the railroad tracks. The entire warehouse consisted of three quonset huts, joined together at the middle, lower sections, located at 502 Kanuga Drive, in Flamingo Park, an historic area of town inWest Palm Beach, Florida. This artist's living/work space was affectionately called "the hut".The official name for this fringe artists community was the Unarmed Underground Art Centre (UUAC) and it sat in a section of town known as Flamingo Park, an area that was undergoing a revitilization. People were moving into the neighborhood, buying up homes, painting them, sprucing up the yard. The area was becoming a hot place to buy and sell real estate. Investors and property owners began to complain about the eyesore at the end of Kanuga Street, the quonset huts, surrounded by beat up cars owned by arists-in-residence, a revolving door of shipwrecked-looking castaways, and the continuous stream of cars, vehicles and bicycles coming and going all hours of the day and night. Things were changing, and the little artist-community-that-could was feeling the squeeze.
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City officials started visiting the UUAC by sending code [http://www.indonesia-fixer.com/ fixer film] enforcement to harass the director/owner Alan Patrusevich, a brilliant and benevolent former Navy man of Lithuanian descent, who operated an antique restoration business from one of the warehouse bays.Finally, caving into pressure from city officials and mounting debts, Alan sold the quonset huts. "The Last Pizza Deliver Driver (on Earth)" tells the story of a an insecure 32-year old pizza delivery driver who, after finding out his 15-year high school reunion is coming to town, tries to patent an idea so he can feel good about himself.And yes, it's semi-autobiographical. Antares Davis, a model and actress, whom David Knight was dating at the time, helped me read through a part of the script one day. It was great reading the material with a seasoned actress, who had hosted major celebrity events in LA. Thank you, Antares Davis.How does someone work for themself?Living in David Knight's kitchen provided me with a squirrel's eye view of someone who works for themselves.Some years earlier, David had purchased the main, 2-story building on Dixie at a low price, spent a few years on renovation, then sold it for a nice profit--about 3x what he paid for it. He also had rental properties.Although he was somewhat quiet about his earnings, I surmised that he had used the profits of the 2-story building sale to buy smaller rental properties for cash, and use that rental income to live on. It's a smart move--to work hard for a few years, find some deals, add value to those deals, re-sell for profit, then use that profit for rental propertiesor properties you sell outright.Although real estate had been favorable for David Knight, he said "It's boring". He was more into playing music and travelling (New York, Ukraine, South America).During the course of my stay in his kitchen, I would ask him how to make money in real estate. For the most part, his answeres were esoteric. He did not care to discuss real estate. He said it bored him, and that he wanted to play music. One day, he told me this, which I wrote down."Those who work with their muscle can be replaced by the stronger guy. Work with your brain. You can accumulate knowledge working with your brain. With your muscle, you accumulate wear and tear."David KnightLiving in North Palm Beach, FloridaLiving at Scott's house, on the living room couch, and in David Knight's kitchen, where I slept on the floor beneath a table, proved to be an educational experience. From Scott, I learned that I did not want to be a landlord, and that, if I did have rental properties, I wanted to figure out a way NOT to have to manage them. From David Knight, I learned that buying a run-down property in an up-and-coming area, with a clear vision of improving the property to resell at a later date, could yield enormous profits, enough to reinvest in smaller income-producing properties. At this point, I really was excited about buying a property of my own.Flipping real estate in North FloridaEventually, I did learn how to buy a property of my own.
 
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City officials started visiting the UUAC by sending code enforcement to harass the director/owner Alan Patrusevich, a brilliant and benevolent former Navy man of Lithuanian descent, who operated an antique restoration business from one of the warehouse bays.Finally, caving into pressure from city officials and mounting debts, Alan sold the quonset huts. The Unarmed Underground Art Centre aka "the hut" was no more. The artists, writers, drifters and dreamers scattered. Eventually the dust settled and they found spaces of their own.At this point, I was in my early thirties, and wasn't about to settle down to work at a job I don't like, to buy things I don't need, to compete with people I don't even know. I wanted my own space. I wanted freedom.Living among artists in the giant hamster cage of the hut had given me freedom to work part-time pick up jobs and in my free time write journals, compose songs, start a Christian coffeehouse, produce a film festival, and a number of other creative enterprises. Those creative projects enabled me to meet groups of people and have the project be the campfire around which we gathered. What I learned from living with Scott is this--being a landlord is a full-time job. There's got to be a better way to make long-term profits. Later, I found out there is a better way.Some time later, after moving out of Scott's, I received a call from David Knight. A Bahamian born entrepreneur and musician, he was an interesting, somewhat enigmatic fellow, who I had met years [http://www.indonesia-fixer.com/ fixer film] earlier in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, and had done work for, assisting him with maintenance--usually painting or carpentery--on his investment property on Dixie Boulevard.David was calling from New York.
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City officials started visiting the UUAC by sending code fixer film enforcement to harass the director/owner Alan Patrusevich, a brilliant and benevolent former Navy man of Lithuanian descent, who operated an antique restoration business from one of the warehouse bays.Finally, caving into pressure from city officials and mounting debts, Alan sold the quonset huts. "The Last Pizza Deliver Driver (on Earth)" tells the story of a an insecure 32-year old pizza delivery driver who, after finding out his 15-year high school reunion is coming to town, tries to patent an idea so he can feel good about himself.And yes, it's semi-autobiographical. Antares Davis, a model and actress, whom David Knight was dating at the time, helped me read through a part of the script one day. It was great reading the material with a seasoned actress, who had hosted major celebrity events in LA. Thank you, Antares Davis.How does someone work for themself?Living in David Knight's kitchen provided me with a squirrel's eye view of someone who works for themselves.Some years earlier, David had purchased the main, 2-story building on Dixie at a low price, spent a few years on renovation, then sold it for a nice profit--about 3x what he paid for it. He also had rental properties.Although he was somewhat quiet about his earnings, I surmised that he had used the profits of the 2-story building sale to buy smaller rental properties for cash, and use that rental income to live on. It's a smart move--to work hard for a few years, find some deals, add value to those deals, re-sell for profit, then use that profit for rental propertiesor properties you sell outright.Although real estate had been favorable for David Knight, he said "It's boring". He was more into playing music and travelling (New York, Ukraine, South America).During the course of my stay in his kitchen, I would ask him how to make money in real estate. For the most part, his answeres were esoteric. He did not care to discuss real estate. He said it bored him, and that he wanted to play music. One day, he told me this, which I wrote down."Those who work with their muscle can be replaced by the stronger guy. Work with your brain. You can accumulate knowledge working with your brain. With your muscle, you accumulate wear and tear."David KnightLiving in North Palm Beach, FloridaLiving at Scott's house, on the living room couch, and in David Knight's kitchen, where I slept on the floor beneath a table, proved to be an educational experience. From Scott, I learned that I did not want to be a landlord, and that, if I did have rental properties, I wanted to figure out a way NOT to have to manage them. From David Knight, I learned that buying a run-down property in an up-and-coming area, with a clear vision of improving the property to resell at a later date, could yield enormous profits, enough to reinvest in smaller income-producing properties. At this point, I really was excited about buying a property of my own.Flipping real estate in North FloridaEventually, I did learn how to buy a property of my own.