As you may or not know, I started this little real estate venture as a response to being laid off from my corporate job in the insurance business. I happened to be in Virginia Beach at the time, so as a result, my real estate business was in & around the VA Beach/Tidewater area.
As months went by with no steady source of income, my lovely bride & I decided to put our awesome home (see it at 2904wilcox.blogspot.com) up for sale and keep working the Glass Doctor by day and 11 Day Sale real estate in the afternoon & evenings.
Since our house sold so quickly, (we had an offer in 4 weeks...) we had to make the decision to either stay in VA & rent, or find a job/place to live back in CA where we were both originally from.
It was a tough decision, but we decided to go back to CA.
And now we're here. We are here on the Central Coast of CA in San Luis Obispo County. We happen to be living with family for the near term, but are excited about the next step for our growing business.
You are probably saying to yourself, Taylor, what about your VB operations? Why would you leave something that was just getting going? Why work so hard to just leave it all behind?
Good questions my young reader. Let me fill you in on our growth strategy...
11 Day Sale in VA will continue. I have hired an Acquisitions Manager to continue to buy/sell homes using my contacts in VA Beach. She is fantastic and we just wrapped up her first closing on an 11 Day auction she did while I was in Hawaii last month. A nice little bit of bling to fund our operations on both coasts...
We're also looking at picking up another researcher/11 Day Sale contract employee in Harrisonburg VA. We'll see how it comes along, but things are coming along well with her training and she should be ready to hold her first auction/bid sale by mid September.
11 Day Sale in CA is just picking up speed! I have been fortunate enough to pick up a few night shifts a week at Giuseppe's Restaurant in Pismo Beach, and also have a gig with Advanced Teeth Whitening Systems, selling teeth whitening systems (light machines & supplies) to local Day-spas & up-scale salons. It looks to be a good money maker and the income should take any hint of desperation out of my real estate discussions with sellers. (never be the motivated buyer... ever...)
I have sent out 67 probate mailers to SLO county and as of yesterday have 7 responses so far. I have another set to mail out this weekend for North Santa Barbara County and will keep tabs on responses here in the blog.
Thanks for keeping up with us! Check 11daysale.net to see some of the hot investment properties my manager has stirred up in VA!
Cheers!
Taylor
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