Another morning and another time when I don’t know what to write about. Gratitude is getting hard this time of year. I once again am coming face to face with my decisions. My actions are having unforeseen consequences that I should have seen. This might be one of those stories I tell one day if it does lead to success, but right now we’re in a frightening place.
All that fear is caused by one thing, property taxes. They just happen to be due at the exact time I am doing this 1031 exchange and needing to get new insurance and all this other stuff. Bills on top of bills and waiting too long to try and transfer the funds we need. It is all causing a familiar anxiety as bank accounts plumet towards zero and my only goal is to making them stop shrinking and start growing.
The good thing about all these bills is they won’t be due again for awhile. We have a year on the insurances and six months on the property taxes. That means we get to collect the income between now and then, and we get to store it away and be careful with it.
Every experience is a lesson and this one is know what you’re walking into before you walk into it. If I had known I would be here I would have done a few things different during the year. I don’t know how different, and I might have kept some of my trying to fix my father’s watches impulses out of my grieving. Let’s face it. That is what it was. The watches were important to my father and something we shared while he was alive, and working on that collection and getting his watch repaired was a way to stay connected.
That is what we’re looking for. A connection. Maybe that is why I am doing the 1031 exchange as well. He loved those and Maryland Ave was never his favorite. I’d like to think I am more logical than that. That turning $2500 a month into $4800 a month is the main motivation, but maybe not subconsciously.
It is not something we can ever know. All I know is I am grateful for the time I had with my father, all the connections we shared, and those we continue to share.
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