Here I am again finding myself concentrating on the wrong work. Today I set appointments in the morning when I should be working on other things. That was the problem that we ran into earlier in the year. I got bogged down in working on the family business and neglected my own. It is doubly awkward because I keep getting after my wife for not prioritizing our business enough.
Life is a series of making the same mistakes over and over until we learn our lesson, and I apparently am not learning this lesson. I need to work on the work that I am supposed to. The other work still needs to be done, but it has to be a secondary priority. The trouble is I am working with tricky timing. Trying to pull off a bit of a trick shot to minimize loss of income.
My mother needs more income and I am the one tasked with getting it. Having an imbalance is not a good thing, and correcting the issue is the primary goal. The issue is my business cannot suffer under the weight of the primary objective. I need to keep my scheduled time instead of running around like a lunatic, and the big thing is I don’t need to.
What we’re working on is a 1031 exchange of one property for a couple new properties. It is doubtful that the one I am seeing today is going to make the short list. It looks good on paper, but I am uncertain if it really is ideal. The location is a little west of where I’d really like, but the price is perfect and the estimated rent is as well. Mathematically it works, and that is all that really matters.
Now when it comes to that it is really what matters to me. The realtor can go in and look at it and see if it is a house they thing they can rent. That nothing is falling apart and there aren’t any big bugaboos that are going to pop up. We are getting rid of a property because it has had too many large expenses, and the last thing we need is one that is going to replace it with more large expenses. That doesn’t help income.
All of this needs to be scheduled differently than I did this week. There is also the fact that I am still not feeling well and dealing with this never ending illness that has now gone full circle and is back to being just a cough. Hopefully it is near the end, but I have no idea.
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