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Made An Extra $50,000!
Submitted by: Jeanine B
Boston, MAA writer and marketing consultant who has been really inspired by the teachings of the Secret and grateful to have discovered them.
I inherited a 12-unit apartment building in Colorado last year when my father passed away. So suddenly, I was in charge of managing it from a distance, when I had never even owned my own home. I quickly realized how difficult a task it was, and how much the building was draining me in terms of money and time. Since I’m also self-employed, when I don’t work, I don’t eat, so I noticed that my own business was really being impacted as a result.
At the advice of a real estate broker, I was advised to hold onto this property for a year, because I would lose a lot of money if I didn’t. I lasted 11 months, and then decided to sell when I had to borrow the entire mortgage payment in December. I knew it would quickly be a downward spiral, so I called this same broker and told her I wanted to sell.
She then told me to wait another month, and then sell it in January, which I dreaded doing as I had no money to pay for the expenses for the building. I was also in the process of evicting several tenants, which was costing even more money.
So I started to apply the principals of The Secret to this whole process. First, I knew that I had to get a top price for the building, so I told the broker I would wait until January. I then wrote up an analysis of the property, and said I wanted to sell it for $638,000. I really thought the broker would come back to me and say it should be lower. But to my surprise, she said, I think that’s about right for a price.
Little did I know how many expenses it would take to sell the building! So when it was finally listed in mid-January I held my breath. I also needed it to sell quickly, so I kept repeating to myself “sell vine (the street where my property was located) at $649k in January 2013”. This was what I was putting into my subconscious that I wanted to happen.
Believe it or not, my broker not only sold it in 4 days, but sold it for $685k and I signed the agreement on my birthday on January 13, 2013! What a fabulous birthday gift to myself.
Now I have enough proceeds to buy my condo in Boston (which I will again use The Secret to do)
Thank you a million times for using The Secret to create The Secret!