RaquelMangual.com » E is for Elimination http://www.raquelmangual.com Not trying to make a killing, just trying to make a living Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:35:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The J-O-B is officially over! http://www.raquelmangual.com/2010/09/the-j-o-b-is-officially-over/ http://www.raquelmangual.com/2010/09/the-j-o-b-is-officially-over/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:10:10 +0000 Raquel http://www.raquelmangual.com/2010/09/the-j-o-b-is-officially-over/ Yesterday was officially my last day of work. I submitted my last timesheet and was so happy. I will use the next six months to build my businesses to the point that I can live off the income they provide. Thank you God for this opportunity!

]]> http://www.raquelmangual.com/2010/09/the-j-o-b-is-officially-over/feed/ 0 More crazy updates, good news and a little bit of bad news http://www.raquelmangual.com/2010/08/more-crazy-updates-good-news-and-a-little-bit-of-bad-news/ http://www.raquelmangual.com/2010/08/more-crazy-updates-good-news-and-a-little-bit-of-bad-news/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:16:28 +0000 Raquel http://www.raquelmangual.com/?p=165 Crazy update: Last Monday, right after I came back from lunch, my dayjob informed us that the Philadelphia office would be closing, and our last day of work would be August 31st. Yup, that means I’m getting laid off! HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY! HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY! (that’s from Ren & Stimpy, and if you don’t know what that is, you’re probably too young to be reading this blog anyway). So yeah, I’m super excited that I’m getting laid off. This gives me the opportunity I’ve been dreaming of for so long: work on getting my businesses to full-time status, while being able to collect an unemployment check. God willing, I will never go back to needing a job. I know the mistakes I made now, and I don’t plan on repeating them.

Good news: I got two new listings in the pipeline, both from my Facebook friends. Between FB and CL, there’s really no reason why someone can’t make money in real estate these days. I also found an investor-friendly title company that will do back-to-back closings for my shortsale flips. So that is a huge plus for my investing business. Yay!

Bad news: The cash buyer that I thought I had for my shortsale flip has backed out. I kinda had the feeling when, even knowing that the property was being sold as is, he wanted me to provide a roof cert, heater cert, turn on all the utilities for “proper inspection”, “special cleaning” for the bathrooms,  and wanted a home warranty. Yeah right, not gonna happen. I crossed all that stuff out and sent the offer back to his agent, and it died today. I’m confident I’ll find a buyer soon. I will not be anxious :-)

So that’s it for now. I have to get back to marketing from my new favorite toy (my netbook), so I can continue enjoying Food Network. I need ideas for my Girl’s Day at the Beach this weekend. Woohoo!

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Oh yeah, and they don’t allow sellers to offer Google Checkout as a method of payment. Probably because they can’t buy it the way they did paypal (which is also very shitty). Ebay is a piece of shit.

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Goodnight for now

P.S. – If you are looking for my real estate agent website, click here to go to the new location.

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