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fairytalepsuedonym · 1 year
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So i went to the WORST comedy show recetl. Like so bad i rhought the ENTIRE auseince was going to walk out. So bad that im still shocked the bartended didn et on stage and go "you know what. As of now we are no longer a comedy club." So bad that the only joke that landed was this guy joking about how quiet the audeibce was.
So bad i started fantasizing about taking the mic from this "comic" and doing his job better than him. And while id never avtually do that in reality. I simply left when there was space between acts to leave. I did write a little stand up ckndy bit in my head. And yes it is a little mean spiruted. But this is just me peocessing how uncofirtable ibwas and id never say it to these comedians faces. And like im nkt eben sjre im funny. Just processing.
To be clear i waankt the only one visibky uncodottable. Ibwas not the only one not lsughing. I factir the fst i do not always ubderstsnd jokes(esepcially dirty jokes) into "is this funny?" But i wasnt the only one sitting there with a like "i dont...ger ir?" And "shut uo i am bgging you" look on my face.
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And in my little fantasy i got on stage uninvited and just went for it in the hopes tgat mcee would not try to tell another joke. Please. Cant decide whonwas wost the emcess or the comics.
Ontext on the spilling joke: one comic cleaned up a spill another made
"I'd say tough crowd but i fdnt think im the only one who tjought the funniest psrt if thst was rhe drunk lady in the back. Tell you what ill tell three jokes and if shes still funnier than evry joke weve headd tonight i'll ask if we can cancel our schedule programming and hand her the mic instead. Id say right now but lets let her finish her wine. No one wants thr guy thar clesned up the last spill back up here. If they did theyd have asked alexa for a caralouge of dirty jokes. And shed have soubded less like she was reading off a list.
Lets cleanse our pallete a little? Okay joke two. Loving the aesthetic here. I see that colnverted chess board.anyone here play chess? Oh no? Ok fine i can read a room. No jokes that require a google search that moght put you on a watch list. I still want to make a chess joke though. Bear with me.so the pawn and tge rook and...no im hust messing eith you. Thr only peoole thwt want to hear a chess joke like that are thr kidsibwas in chess club with. Four years running. We made our coach teach strategy lomger than he ever wanted. Coach is a loose word. We never conpeted. Not becausevwe were bad. Bur bexause the school spent all the money thry said we fidnt have for conltitjons on a brand new scorebosrd for some whretlitic team kr another. Ehich one? I have no jdeai was paying chess during the pep rally they annoucbed it at.
Ok joke three. Kve got one more shot yo get a laugh out of you guys. Lady in the back, you done with your drink? Or do i need to slow it down. Youre nrxt. Id say i hope you have something prepared but i dont think that anyone else was. Ever hesdd of reading the room? Certsinly says somtthing if the only joke youbcsn et to land is the one about how quiet thr audience is being. Did antone else see my deer in the headlights look ober in thr corner? Last time i looked like that i was in a car accident thst even the cop coul trllnwas someone elses fault. And he gor lost on the way there bevause he had ro reoutr due to anoher acvident iver thr aame reason. Ok thars my time. Im probablt banned from this bar for life. I dont know if i was funny at all but i at least know i didnt say anything thaf makesme think im banned evrrmery church on the planet. Dont
I know i promised only three jokes but one moe Now welcome to the srsge...i have no idea avtually, im not a comedien. And i dont know anything about the next act. But bit of advice for the next one: this crowd does not care about your love life if you csbt talk about it without bringinf up words i cannot repeat. Or nuns. "[end]
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This show left me feeling litterally dirty. Like and not in a "ok im obviousky very fragike and uncodtttabke with the conceot of sex" it bring my own problems lebel kf dirty. But like "idont even bekieve in a god and i think soneones getting smited" level kf FILTHY. Dirty.
Nd those jokes CAN work but you need to be CERTAIN your audience is ok with them. And it was so clesr no one was.
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uncannycory · 1 year
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Im getting angry that every time things get worse for me, i freak out less about it. And its like legit its not like oh one bad stressful situation stopped and another sitituation of similar or worse magnitude happens afterwards, no.
Its like something bad happens, i find a way to manage it but it generally requires continued maintanence. Then another worse thing happens thst i have to deal with on top of it. Like the last time i took commissions bc my husband and i were out of work bc of covid.
And sure we both went back to work and we werent as tight on money, but now my husband has long covid. Now his joints are crumbling and hes had a migraine so severe and so long he cant do his driving job because its dangerous. Im working extra hours, im doing what i can. Hes out of sick time and they cant fire him bc hes on a loa but what am i supposed to do? This isnt sustainable. I want to rip my fucking teeth out and cry, because i also have had more vet bills, and the computer repair place has my laptop and im going to need to produce 200$ to get it back when theyre done with it.
It feels like i should be panicking, but im so numb to it. Time keeps slipping by like a blur. I play videogames to try and preoccpy my husband whos going stir crazy and i try and work with what i have and i want to cry so badly because hes always had my back when i needed him but i dont know if i can sustain this. I dont know how im going to make ends meet. He has doctors appointments these next two days and i have to be up early to drive him and then go to work and then stay late for ot after work and then do it again and again and again and hope it works out.
And i feel so little about it. I should feel more. I want to feel anything rational!!! But instead im just tired amd angry at all this numb blur in me. And the anger doesnt even stay it becomes the blur too.
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thewholeguacamole · 3 years
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Ask meme: 45, 47, 52
Hello!
45.) Favorite accent?
Basically anything from the UK
47.) What's the most expensive piece of clothing that you own?
My recital dress, which was on sale from $554 to 200-something.
52.). Favorite food?
There's a couple of things that are on my favorite list.
Hominy and scrambled eggs
Tiramisu
My family's Spätzle recipe with roast beef and gravy.
#also statistically im basic as an American who likes any accent from the UK#dont come after me#and i mean anything#i don't care if youre crisp or i cant understand you#i unfortunately was into a lot of media from the uk growing up and even now#as someone from nebraska i have a neutral accent apparently#though my family's accent is messed up because we moved around too much#i particularly lean towards sounding minnesotan or a typical canadian accent#i also was trained to have a mid-atlantic dialect#which youd think would fix this#but no#im actually cool with most accents#i find it hella cool that people can be fluent in other languages#i am very mediocre at german#i spent two years studying it i suppose#id like to be more fluent but alas#that would require me to spend time in a german speaking country#and that requires money and time thst i dont have#also my family's spätzle recipe is hella basic but good. its just flour salt eggs and milk#my grandfather immigrated from Germany in the 50s#i think he was 12#he remembers the war but he was more concerned about messing with the other kids#he once led a group of kids into the forest to teach them 'more important' things#while their teacher was out of the room#he remembers he got into a huge amount of trouble and they thought the kids were kidnapped#he's just an agent of chaos#i have my issues with him but he has some funny stories man#he wasnt always the most responsible and i disagree with some of the decisions he made long ago but what can you do 🤷‍♀️#hes my last biological grandparent left
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petitalbert-blog · 6 years
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steeldrago replied to your text post "As a bibliophile, I would buy a well made book for a lot. I'm not super familiar with chumbles so I can't comment there. Exchange is a very very old magick principle and not everyone is called to specific things. While anyone can officiate the solemn rites of ones life and some do it for free, expecting the gravitas of spiritual connection for free because "It's spiritual" is impractical and demeaning to the spirits involved. Unless they want that." -- This is a good point: exchange is a powerful spiritual act. The context I'm coming from is an incredibly strong hatred in the way faith is used to control others. Whether that's Scientologists, ISIS, weird Mormon sects, Hillsong church - or those who talk to the dead and read cards for profit and at the expense of those they read for, controlling coven leaders, and so on. This hatred drives a lot of my craft and my work; so any time "you must pay more money to progress in your studies" comes up - my back prickles like a tense cat, ready to bite. I certainly dont think it is required that everyone work for free. Money is the unit of caring, the unit with which we exhange time for things that are important to us. People deserve to be paid for work, and yet - I am always, always antsy when it gets mixed up with affairs of the spirit. Because it is so often abused. People should not expect wisdom for nothing - but when that something is "money" I get suspicious of motives. We see in our folklore both examples of people sacrificing valued things, like livestock and swords; but also often nonsensical things, esp in fairy lore where exhange rarely runs in human terms. Six pomegranate seeds for six months of the year, and so on. I'd gladly pay for genuine wisdom - but how can anyone tell the difference between thst and the infinite number of charlatans hoping for power and control? Suffice to say, I don't think theres anything wrong with one charging appropriate money for services, nor paying for things one feels is worth it. I spend a lot on magical books myself. It's when money becomes a barrier to spiritual advancement I am uncomfortable. And then in the context of my work, a lot of the "good" traditional witchcraft writings are being done in these small press/rare editions that I can't afford, and it brings up a lot of emotions. Disappointment, frustration; a sense of being left out because my peers speak so highly of them; and then that deep, huge hatred of money-in-religion that drove me to the arms of the devil in the first place, a desire to tear down the whole establishment which locks knowledge behind artificial bars. I reject the culture of status symbol grimoires. I choose to see them as blinding and as barriers to personal gnosis, in part because I have to - I refuse to accept that books I can't afford are worth reading, because the alternative is a gnawing sense that my work is lacking somehow. (I got a couple of Chumbley responses, and im not replying to all of them, mostly because I don't think my personal discomfort is important enough to debate. It's not a declarative discourse point or the way I think others should be; it's my personal witchcraft thoughts blog, and that includes me grumbling about the things I don't like. And I really, really don't like it.)
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bettydgunter90 · 4 years
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Sending Offers In My Sleep
In my first few years as a real estate investor, there were a few things that chewed up a TON of my time each day:
Talking to prospects on the phone.
Researching properties so I could make offers.
Deciding on an offer price, writing up the contract and sending it to the seller.
Altogether, these wheel-spinning, time-wasting, mind-numbing activities consumed about 80% of my time and mental bandwidth.
The problem with this approach is, my business model requires me to make very low offers.
Given how absurdly low my offers are, the vast majority of prospects are going to say “No” to me – and when this inevitably happens, it means all the time I spent up to this point of rejection was a total waste.
With everything I was doing BEFORE making each offer and being told in no uncertain terms “where to stick it”, it’s no wonder I was left feeling mentally and emotionally drained every time I heard a “No” response. I was wasting an incredible amount of time and was left with nothing to show for all of my work.
I was burnt out and I knew something had to change.
I needed a faster way to get each seller’s response WITHOUT wasting endless hours in the process.
The Buying Website
Eventually, I created a buying website for my business (and to this day, it’s one of the smartest things I’ve ever done for myself).
With this website, I was able to get most of the information I needed on each property without picking up the phone and I was able to do the bulk of my property research AFTER I had made my initial offer and the seller had responded with a “YES” to my proposal.
Instead of sending out a formal purchase agreement to each property owner, I could simply respond to each website submission with an email like this:
Hi <<Seller Name>>,
Thanks for your submission on our website! Would you consider selling your property for $______ cash? We are willing to pay for all of your closing costs and property taxes as part of the transaction.
If you have any interest, let me know.
Thanks! Seth
This was a huge development for my business because it cut out a TON of wasted time in my acquisition process.
It took me a whopping 30 seconds to send out offers this way (instead of the 30 – 60 minutes I was spending before).
But even so, I still found it a bit onerous to:
Open up every email submission that came in
Evaluate whether I wanted to make an offer based on the market value and level of motivation
Type out a nice email to let the property owner about my offer
Read the angry email responses that came back from more than half of the property owners
Now, I realize, we’re getting into “first world problems” territory – but even so, I knew there had to be a faster way to get these “email offers” sent out to people…
…and as it turned out, there was!
Enter TextExpander
One of the greatest pieces of software I use on my computer every day is a web app called TextExpander.
TextExpander allows me to use “snippets” that generate pre-saved emails, messages and other commonly used strings of text I type out every day.
Rather than re-typing these entire messages from scratch, I can just type out a short snippet (usually just a few letters) and TextExpander will pop-out the entire message for me.
RELATED: A Simple App That Changed My Life
An email that might normally take 5 – 10 minutes to write can be done in a matter of seconds. It’s pretty incredible!
But even so… I still had to open up every individual website submission, look at them and send out email offers based on a small fraction of what they told me the property was worth.
Don’t get me wrong… the process was significantly faster with TextExpander, but it still required that I pay attention.
I kept wishing there was a way for these offers to go out automatically, even if I was sleeping.
Enter REI Landleads
Back in early 2019, I heard from my friend Jessey who had started a company called REI Conversion.
He was in the process of building some incredible WordPress themes for land investors (I’m not exaggerating, check out this blog post and this blog post and you’ll see what I mean).
I had never seen a good web developer put so much energy into creating something like this for the land investing community before (because admittedly, we’re a small bunch). I saw this as a great opportunity to offer some ideas and feedback about how to build these themes right.
Luckily, he was actually interested in my input, so we put our heads together to make some of the most functional WordPress themes the real estate investing world has ever seen. These things aren’t just pretty, they’re built to do a job that no other WordPress theme can do!
One such example is the Automated Offers plugin (available only for REI Landleads users).
I explained to Jessey how I had always wanted a website that was smart enough to accept property submissions AND send out offers automatically so that EVERYONE who submits their property on my website would get an offer from me after a short delay. This would give my visitors the impression that they were being heard and responded to, and none of these submissions would fall between the cracks of my busy life.
Now, instead of me having to look at each individual submission and send them an offer manually, everything happens on autopilot.
Does it Work?
After running this plugin on my site for several months, I’ve been pretty surprised at how well it works.
The offers always go out like clockwork (I have it calibrated to wait for 60 minutes after receiving the submission before it sends each offer).
As expected, the vast majority of these auto-generated offers are either ignored, or the recipients will email back some kind of incredulous response.
“Insulting.”
“NO THANKS”
“Did you mean $46,000 or $4,600??”
“Are you high ?  seriously  $16.200  you trying to make your self a $165,000 profit ? why dont you just slap me in the face . You know as well as I do , that down here lake front property is money in the bank . Thst land is worth $180.000.”
(Like I said… I make low offers.)
But, the cool thing is – even with these negative responses, some of these people are happy to sell (again, as expected).
Remember, this is a numbers game. Most people aren’t the right fit for these kinds of low offers, but some of them are – and that’s who I’m looking for!
These are some of the actual responses I’ve gotten back from people:
“I’m ready right now.”
“I accept your offer.”
“I am willing to take your offer into consideration, although it’s two times lower than what I am willing to accept. Is it possible for you to offer $1,250 plus payments of $150 per month?”
The point is – ALL of these responses, whether the answer was “yes”, “no” or “maybe”, didn’t require one second of my time.
I was able to get real answers from people without spending any of my precious time or energy because the Automated Offers plugin did it for me.
What Happens When Everyone Gets an Offer?
The great thing about this kind of automation is that everyone gets an offer.
The only bad thing about it is that everyone gets an offer. 🙂
Obviously, if you send an offer to everyone, you’ll inevitably send offers on properties you don’t actually want (and it goes without saying, at least 90% of the offers you send out will either be ignored or they’ll be met with an angry response – especially if your offers are as low as mine).
The good news is, these “offers” generally don’t function as legally binding contracts that force you to move forward with the purchase.
I’m not making any promises to buy their property
I’m not signing anything
The property owner isn’t signing anything
I’m not putting down any kind of earnest deposit
This is literally just an email inquiry to ask what their response would be if they were presented with a low cash offer for their property.
Whatever their response is, you’re allowed to say “no thanks” if the property doesn’t suit you.
When I encounter this, I usually respond with an email like this:
Hi <<First Name>>,
Unfortunately, after looking closer at the specifics of this property, it doesn’t quite fit the profile of what we’re looking for and as such, we won’t be able to proceed with purchasing this property.
I apologize for any inconvenience and wish you all the best in getting your property sold ASAP.
Best regards, Seth
If you’re strapped for time like I usually am, do yourself a favor and start using ANY of the ideas listed above to stop wasting time in your acquisition process.
REI Landleads is probably the most expensive way to accomplish this (and I’ll admit, it’s a huge luxury), but it’s not the only way to get the job done.
Simply having a buying website where people can submit their properties 24/7, and other time-saving tools like TextExpander will go a LONG way in maintaining your sanity.
Life’s too short to waste your precious hours talking with prospects who are just going to tell you to “take a hike” in the end.
If you end up using any of these ideas in your business, let me know about it in the comments below! I’d love to hear how it’s helping in your workflow.
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topicprinter · 5 years
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Hello everyone. Been following /entrepreneur occasionaly. Im drop out International Economical Relation student, 25 years old, living in Small EU country - Latvia. The mentality here is largely like in every eastern european country(post-soviet). I did drop out of Uni 4 years ago. Did work in different EU countries as a typical "cheap labour". Got sick of the attitude towards me from employers. The attitude I mean is - "just another reppacable easter european".Returned to my home country. Tried to work in local Pizza shop. And again. Got sick of the even worse attitude than " replacable eastern european". You might think - whats worse than that? Youre in your home. Well - i worked there for good 5 months, did many roles and did them simultaneously. And the attitude here, as a post soviet country.... is... Be happy that im paying you a dime. I worked on avg 200h a mth many roles simultaneously, and actually enjoyed it, because it was something new and i was trying to believe that the emoloyer will notice that im generating exponential growth for their small cafe. But all i managed to get in salary was good 322euros A MONTH. But the avarage revenue was about 10-15k euros a month(That is a lot for a town of 6k inhabitants). I was only employee apart the co-owners.Well. Got sick of it. Decided what the hell - I will open my own Pizza Cafe. Rented a place. Asked friends and relatives for amall loans, got about 5k. Now it is all gone, ive managed to get many things for as cheap as ot could be. Almost finished renovating the place of 100sq/m. Bought used gas stone oven for 600 eur. But got to the point thst i have to buy all kinds of bits an peaces. Tryed to apply for "new business idea" loans. But all they basicaly want is somekind of tech related startups. Tryied to re-apply for the sam banks and investment companies several times( 4 finance institutions 6 times) by reevaluating my idea based on their critique. Tried and failed.Ive been raised by Granmother and Mum, but mainly by Grandmother because my mum has cerebal pulsy at its worst. So there is no possibility of asking for money there. I think ive tried everywhere. I even texted my ex, just out of curiosity of what if. Everyones keeps asking when i shall open, some friends even demand the loaned money to be returned. That is seriously struggling me. But i will not stop in halfway. I just am in it for 100%. I just know that it will go. I even have partnered up with some friends, that have offerend help. They kind of do some stuff that they offered, but not full. Mainly because they are full time employees somewhere else and i do understand thst they have job related issues. But i just am struggling from everypoint. I actually have also applied in our towns own small business grant competition, but it is going on for 2 months yet, so i dont know how that will turn out.Funny - but ive had an interview with a local newspepper thst was published on me. They approached me because i was doing daily "live fb streams" of "the steps and things to be done to open your own small businesa in Latvia" Indid that untill the point when i didnt have anything new to add. I do it as something new comes up. But not as iften as i did at start. Seems everything is falling apart not even started. But all my venture started when i registered my company exactly 2 mnths ago( so this is fast forward in big chunks 2 mnth timeline)Okay - that is for background. Now the "why". Why am i posting this?I am asking for advice, and I believe thst here are people thst are not only just and wantrepreneur or a tech start up business man. I think and hope that here are someone who has been in my shoes - that is - someone who have started their oen small company( it doesnt matter if its cafe or not).How did you manage the feeling of stepping in to unknown? How did you manage to delegate and fulfill the roles to your smaller "co-funders" (I own 51% unoficcialy) How the h#& do I get any additional funds in this moment when i think ive asked everywhere and to everyone? How do I cope with the thing that i am not getting to my deadlines(first i wanted to open on 20th of march, then on 1st of april, now... i dont know when) There have been so many things started a bit there and a bit over there. But none of them are finished. But ive gathere almost every thing that is necessery to open. However i dont have the knowledge of installing for an example "ventilation systems" that i actually got for a "sandwich". It seems i have so many things started at once. I have all planed out and all to-dos listed, all of which doesnt require additional funds have been done to the limit where it requires extra money. And yeah, getting thinga done is quite a struggle to me as im kind of diagnosed with adhd.Thst is why here is this big blab here, so if there is Any advice here to be given. Please. Or any experiences to learn from. Or any other Ideas where to go and ask for extra funds?And sorry for any grammar mistakes or any typos. English is just my 3rd language and im using mobile phone without "autocorrect". :DHave a cookie on me, if youve read this far. And thank you. :)
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this weekend was actually okay and something i needed. on saturday i spoke to my landlord who was very aggressive about our deal and it gave me alot f anxiety. i attempted to share this with.. well.. anyone, and it was really isolating. the day before i had spent just a few hours with him and another friend and i felt isolated. saturday evening he decided he wanted to hang out and was really, really excited to share that he had found a cottage he could use this summer. neither me nor my friend was that enthused. both of us have lives that dont reallt include cottages and who knows if he will still be our friend by then. honestly. and he presented this with such excitement, like it would be good news for me. like i would care. like i was supposed to care. i think in a way both my friend and i thought good news wouldve been him wanting to move out of his mothers house. like he had a change of heart and realized what was actually for the best. he stuck on the cottage, repeatedly asking me over the next day or so if i was excited. he said i could go fishing. if i dont, does he bring someone else? but having him in a good mood was much better than usual and made him much more affectionate and nice, which is what i needed to overcome some of my anxiety. not all anxiety can truly be solved on its own. he kept touching me and held my hand and was overall just really nice. it made me comfortable enough to share my landlord situation and surprisingly he had a similar reaction to my own - they had been nice before, they set out the rules im following, theyre just angry they arent getting anything right now by definition of their own rules. he told me it was okay and i didnt need to worry about it because they had resolved to threats and aggression when i never once acted inappropriately. i felt alot better hearing that. weve been very careful not to comment on each others choices but still offer passive opinions. he doesnt like me living with anyone and hes negative about all of my options. but he doesnt tell me outright what to do / what im doing wrong in his eyes. but it felt better to feel justified in my belief that i wasnt crazy for thinking that i was in fact following their rules and procedures. a bit later on he mentioned that i should try for my native status and to me its a very sketchy subject based on almost 100 years of people with a very flimsy story which i imagine is mostly true but there could be serious false parts. thats why i just accept the ancestry my father believed in but dont indulge in it. but its gratifying to hear a random opinion which someone came to on their own regarding my ancestry and their belief in my belief. but he added that i should seek out an aboriginal center that could help me through the process and they should be more than willing to help because ive experienced so much abusive trauma. i felt a bit thrown back by this observation and didnt really reply. i mean, im not insulted or offended. im more genuinely surprised that within his own thoughts he believed i had abusive trauma and he wanted a way for me to cope easier in life. and it wasnt just oh u had trauma, it was 'so much abusive trauma' - very specific, indicating belief that not onlt had i experienced trauma on its own but that it had been willfully inflicted on me in my past. i believe in a way this also refers to the fact i told him what has been unsaid between us but most obvious in our last fight. he is a contributing factor on a semi regular basis to my anxieties and depression because he chooses to be as close as he is in the type of 'relationship' we have but does things like randomly break up or blame things on me. but its up and down, putting me through a cycle and my trust and patience, as thin as it was to begin with, is hanging on by a thread. i do believe he could leave at any moment without deep thought into how it would affect me. and he tries to remain naive or ignorant to the damage he caused; he asks me if i know where random things are or why i havent taken care of our herb garden and i remind him that im not here and im not welcome to do these things or know these things. he pushed me away for almost two weeks and expected things to be exactly as they were like i had left yesterday. i believe, like my ex, my trauma is too large for him. like, its a hard thing to completely encapsulate and see on a single level at once. and its complex emotional abuse - whether purposeful or not by people that may or may not have had control over the situation. i have felt like an observer since i was a baby. like im just watching crazy shit go down over and over again without a real period of content in between it all. in the afternoon, i felt a bit better. i didnt need sympathy or a shoulder to cry on necessarily, but when you feel very isolated, having your existence acknowledged is good. someone knows. they thought about it. i didnt implant it or bring it up. i roller skated for a bit - im sure its like literally 5-10 minutes of skating at a time but to me its kind of amazing im outside on rollerskates at all. and i think its kind of unbelievable to others as well - not that im too lazy, just that ive made an active choice to emerge from things at the best of mt abilities. later i began looking for jobs and apartments, repeating the same routine of the last few weeks but grateful to be in comfort doing it instead of at the library. i began narrowing down my search - i know, i know, i should take all the jobs. any job. put myself on a production line, hand bomb boxes, cut up chicken - but i cant. i cant do it at this point in my psyche. i cannot physically or mentally bare the process of living that way. its incomprehensible to me - im not above it. im not stubborn. im not lazy. but when you barely have the desire to get out of bed and feed yourself and bathe, to create the desire from nothing to go to a factory and pack boxes for eight hours of the day is so much time alone with my mind. its not distracting or challenging enough and ive see. these terrible jobs make normal people depressed so to me it seems like a death sentence. so i began to narrow it down - its been a long journey, acrually. it started months ago when i sat down and sincerely though about the very few things i could believe or want in my life thriugh all the fog and trauma and stress. it was very basic - im kind of a simple person. or maybe im simple among my turmoil. i like animals - but they also can trigger alot of anxiety and emotions that i dont want to deal with on a regular basis on top of having employment to maintain. i like cooking and baking; but all job environments with this are very high stress fast paced places and i am a sloth. not lazy, again, but currently moving at a pace that is the best of my abilities. i like computers but my skills are from 2008 and i dont have the patience or attention span to upgrade them right now. i like, in some ways, cleaning but i dont think its something id want to do everyday of my life. i like caring for the elderly, but again, its a complex job with alot of mental stress. so for the past month or so ive settled on essentially something in horticulture. i like growing things. it brings me a little joy on the inside. i like herb gardens and flowers, i like being outside, i like learning about plants. i began looking for a job in a garden center but they were few and far between and i began to realize that it was still mainly retail. so i applied to landscaping - i could cut grass and weed gardens but its male dominated industry and i dont think my few years of experience doing well, nothing, makes me a their first choice. plus its back breaking and the weather conditions can be terrible. so i looked for jobs as a florist or in a flower shop or maybe just the flower department in a grocery store. it seemed relatively low stress, not incredibly fast paced but something that was always in demand and flowers and maintaining flowers is great. but i began to learn that it required experience, as most jobs do, but as i thought about it i realized perhaps i could be a floral designer. it sounds really.. meh. like a super unimportant job with no real purpose and may e thats okay. it has alot of options; floral shops, weddings, funerals - its an oddly versatile thing that also allows for creativity and an experience of art and a little bit of science. its not complex, but it could be. and it allows for expansion - i could run my own flower shop. its not the most useful trade but its something thats always useable. i hesistantly looked into schooling. it seemed like a random course you took once and they gave you a paper. but a neaeby college has an entire 2 semester course that includes fundamentals of color and design and business plus floral design and other similae things. i say near but its a 2 hr bus ride away. however, its only on saturdays. one day a week for eight months. for curiousitys sake i looked into student loans. my last experience was uncomfortable. despite my best efforts, including calling multiole financial aid offices and sending paper work, i was still messed around and had no idea what to do to fix it. in rhe end i was told it was unlikely student loans would cover my choice; it was an online course in criminal psychology. i felt defeated and turned away from it but looking back now it was a poor attempt to alleviate pressures. so i was weary that osap would cover this course. apparantly school was sketchier than i thiught and the websites were utterly confusing and just asking for money up front. but i continued on, certain that it must work - everyone else manages it. i found the loan calculator and inputted the data. it would be the bare minimum course load thst would count towards getting a loan. it seemed impossible, a course that only happened saturdays that would be covered by a loan. but it recognized the course and calculated based on my assistance i get now, which i know is possible and i know assistance encourages you to do so. it came back as covering my books as well as 9000$+ for living & travelling expenses for the eight months. right now, assistance would allow me a little over 5000$ provided i dont get a job. and thats for living and eating, 300$ a month for rent, 300$ for basic living. at 9000$ i could afford 500-600$ in rent, possibly more if i really wanted to stretch it more so as a loan, when i work, my money isnt deducted. so my shelter costs are covered and at an even higher amount of rent for 700$, i have 300$ still to live on. if i wanted to live alone, that is. having 500-600$ to offer in a roommate situation or towards anything in my future is better than the 300-400$ im looking at now. so i think i want to do this. im going to ask assistance to cover the application fee and im rly hoping i have the one pre requisite course they ask for. it doesnt solve anything right now at all. this is long term think over the next 6-8 months, whicb honestly is scary. im scared by planning so far ahead for myself. and its hard because what if what if what if. but i think its the right thing to do. i dont know if it is. was i ever going to be a famous chef or doctor or office person? probably not. im lucky to exist as i am now. its a reachable goal just outside of my comfortzone and despite the meager amount it seems like theyre giving me, its more than i have had for almost a year now. i believe im ready to handle this, which is funny because its thrown on 18 yr olds eith no life experience but it doesnt matter. a friend has been sort of wanting to be my roommate. its hard to trust her though. and its a really sketchy situation to enter into but financially it would make sense and it would allow me to keep a majority of my comforts. she said she drove around and looked for apartments yesterday and called a few, which is more than ive done. she did show me a few but they were just out of my price range and i wonder if i just wont have enough money to even have a roommate. i also havent had any calls or opportunties for jobs or cash and half of it is my fault. today i could go to contract testing andearn 20$. but ill spend 4$ to get there. i wanted to make it a trip and go to the assistance office too and submit paper work for my application but my desire is not there and im frustrated st myself because i was given a fine weekend. and i need the money; im nearlt short of first & last for 400$ worth of rent, which means i cant even look at 500$ places. i can, however, afford 450$ which is not so bad and i guess i could borrow 100$ from someone if it came down to it, considering my efforts. so 20$ today would sort of go towards living expenses right now and i guess i just.. dont care. i also have to call hydro because i have a past due notice im hoping doesnr translate to final notice? im past due on mt past due and even making the phone call seems daunting. my mornings have become battlefields, mental acrobats of havinf set a plan - even a simple task and fighting myself for several hours about doing it or why or for what purpose. i commend myself, sadly, on the three consecutive days at the library last week. thats actually unheard of in my world, getting up, getting ready and goinf out at almost the same time for three days in a row. then it was the weekend. and now im here. and the weeke d didnt bother me. it didnt cause this, or maybe it did but it doesnt feel like it. im glad to have spent time with him in such a positive way but i guess i have a looming feeling of "well tomorrow i know i wont see him" and ill work out my day alone and eat alone and sleep alone and have all this time because i barely have wifi and no cable and no tv and no movies. its not his fault though. its mt fault. he doesnt have to share his time eith me because i couldnt manage to have wifi. or that i sold my tv. it would be best for me to do the things i planned today. i also havent began cleaning or packing any of my things. i could use boxes. but i kind of want to sleep; i didnt sleep well last night and felt ljke i was up most of the night, having slept alone, and being woken up pretty uncemermoniously at 630am. he explained he was up until 3am working on his project and managed some niceties but dropped me a block from my apt for no real reason. i do scorn myself for not taking initative. these tasks are really fucking simple and crucial to my well being but ill comfort myself with "well, its only this time of day, i can still do this and this later" and its such a poor cop out. i could do it now. the two hours ive been sitting here, couldve done it. but i didnt and i honestlt probably wont and that really makes me such a bucket. its hard feeling down about your depression. but i guess unfortunately im going to start this day again in a few hours and im sure ill be much better off.. or atleast well enough to move from my bed.
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bettydgunter90 · 4 years
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Sending Offers In My Sleep
In my first few years as a real estate investor, there were a few things that chewed up a TON of my time each day:
Talking to prospects on the phone.
Researching properties so I could make offers.
Deciding on an offer price, writing up the contract and sending it to the seller.
Altogether, these wheel-spinning, time-wasting, mind-numbing activities consumed about 80% of my time and mental bandwidth.
The problem with this approach is, my business model requires me to make very low offers.
Given how absurdly low my offers are, the vast majority of prospects are going to say “No” to me – and when this inevitably happens, it means all the time I spent up to this point of rejection was a total waste.
With everything I was doing BEFORE making each offer and being told in no uncertain terms “where to stick it”, it’s no wonder I was left feeling mentally and emotionally drained every time I heard a “No” response. I was wasting an incredible amount of time and was left with nothing to show for all of my work.
I was burnt out and I knew something had to change.
I needed a faster way to get each seller’s response WITHOUT wasting endless hours in the process.
The Buying Website
Eventually, I created a buying website for my business (and to this day, it’s one of the smartest things I’ve ever done for myself).
With this website, I was able to get most of the information I needed on each property without picking up the phone and I was able to do the bulk of my property research AFTER I had made my initial offer and the seller had responded with a “YES” to my proposal.
Instead of sending out a formal purchase agreement to each property owner, I could simply respond to each website submission with an email like this:
Hi <<Seller Name>>,
Thanks for your submission on our website! Would you consider selling your property for $______ cash? We are willing to pay for all of your closing costs and property taxes as part of the transaction.
If you have any interest, let me know.
Thanks! Seth
This was a huge development for my business because it cut out a TON of wasted time in my acquisition process.
It took me a whopping 30 seconds to send out offers this way (instead of the 30 – 60 minutes I was spending before).
But even so, I still found it a bit onerous to:
Open up every email submission that came in
Evaluate whether I wanted to make an offer based on the market value and level of motivation
Type out a nice email to let the property owner about my offer
Read the angry email responses that came back from more than half of the property owners
Now, I realize, we’re getting into “first world problems” territory – but even so, I knew there had to be a faster way to get these “email offers” sent out to people…
…and as it turned out, there was!
Enter TextExpander
One of the greatest pieces of software I use on my computer every day is a web app called TextExpander.
TextExpander allows me to use “snippets” that generate pre-saved emails, messages and other commonly used strings of text I type out every day.
Rather than re-typing these entire messages from scratch, I can just type out a short snippet (usually just a few letters) and TextExpander will pop-out the entire message for me.
RELATED: A Simple App That Changed My Life
An email that might normally take 5 – 10 minutes to write can be done in a matter of seconds. It’s pretty incredible!
But even so… I still had to open up every individual website submission, look at them and send out email offers based on a small fraction of what they told me the property was worth.
Don’t get me wrong… the process was significantly faster with TextExpander, but it still required that I pay attention.
I kept wishing there was a way for these offers to go out automatically, even if I was sleeping.
Enter REI Landleads
Back in early 2019, I heard from my friend Jessey who had started a company called REI Conversion.
He was in the process of building some incredible WordPress themes for land investors (I’m not exaggerating, check out this blog post and this blog post and you’ll see what I mean).
I had never seen a good web developer put so much energy into creating something like this for the land investing community before (because admittedly, we’re a small bunch). I saw this as a great opportunity to offer some ideas and feedback about how to build these themes right.
Luckily, he was actually interested in my input, so we put our heads together to make some of the most functional WordPress themes the real estate investing world has ever seen. These things aren’t just pretty, they’re built to do a job that no other WordPress theme can do!
One such example is the Automated Offers plugin (available only for REI Landleads users).
I explained to Jessey how I had always wanted a website that was smart enough to accept property submissions AND send out offers automatically so that EVERYONE who submits their property on my website would get an offer from me after a short delay. This would give my visitors the impression that they were being heard and responded to, and none of these submissions would fall between the cracks of my busy life.
Now, instead of me having to look at each individual submission and send them an offer manually, everything happens on autopilot.
Does it Work?
After running this plugin on my site for several months, I’ve been pretty surprised at how well it works.
The offers always go out like clockwork (I have it calibrated to wait for 60 minutes after receiving the submission before it sends each offer).
As expected, the vast majority of these auto-generated offers are either ignored, or the recipients will email back some kind of incredulous response.
“Insulting.”
“NO THANKS”
“Did you mean $46,000 or $4,600??”
“Are you high ?  seriously  $16.200  you trying to make your self a $165,000 profit ? why dont you just slap me in the face . You know as well as I do , that down here lake front property is money in the bank . Thst land is worth $180.000.”
(Like I said… I make low offers.)
But, the cool thing is – even with these negative responses, some of these people are happy to sell (again, as expected).
Remember, this is a numbers game. Most people aren’t the right fit for these kinds of low offers, but some of them are – and that’s who I’m looking for!
These are some of the actual responses I’ve gotten back from people:
“I’m ready right now.”
“I accept your offer.”
“I am willing to take your offer into consideration, although it’s two times lower than what I am willing to accept. Is it possible for you to offer $1,250 plus payments of $150 per month?”
The point is – ALL of these responses, whether the answer was “yes”, “no” or “maybe”, didn’t require one second of my time.
I was able to get real answers from people without spending any of my precious time or energy because the Automated Offers plugin did it for me.
What Happens When Everyone Gets an Offer?
The great thing about this kind of automation is that everyone gets an offer.
The only bad thing about it is that everyone gets an offer. 🙂
Obviously, if you send an offer to everyone, you’ll inevitably send offers on properties you don’t actually want (and it goes without saying, at least 90% of the offers you send out will either be ignored or they’ll be met with an angry response – especially if your offers are as low as mine).
The good news is, these “offers” generally don’t function as legally binding contracts that force you to move forward with the purchase.
I’m not making any promises to buy their property
I’m not signing anything
The property owner isn’t signing anything
I’m not putting down any kind of earnest deposit
This is literally just an email inquiry to ask what their response would be if they were presented with a low cash offer for their property.
Whatever their response is, you’re allowed to say “no thanks” if the property doesn’t suit you.
When I encounter this, I usually respond with an email like this:
Hi <<First Name>>,
Unfortunately, after looking closer at the specifics of this property, it doesn’t quite fit the profile of what we’re looking for and as such, we won’t be able to proceed with purchasing this property.
I apologize for any inconvenience and wish you all the best in getting your property sold ASAP.
Best regards, Seth
If you’re strapped for time like I usually am, do yourself a favor and start using ANY of the ideas listed above to stop wasting time in your acquisition process.
REI Landleads is probably the most expensive way to accomplish this (and I’ll admit, it’s a huge luxury), but it’s not the only way to get the job done.
Simply having a buying website where people can submit their properties 24/7, and other time-saving tools like TextExpander will go a LONG way in maintaining your sanity.
Life’s too short to waste your precious hours talking with prospects who are just going to tell you to “take a hike” in the end.
If you end up using any of these ideas in your business, let me know about it in the comments below! I’d love to hear how it’s helping in your workflow.
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bettydgunter90 · 4 years
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Sending Offers In My Sleep
In my first few years as a real estate investor, there were a few things that chewed up a TON of my time each day:
Talking to prospects on the phone.
Researching properties so I could make offers.
Deciding on an offer price, writing up the contract and sending it to the seller.
Altogether, these wheel-spinning, time-wasting, mind-numbing activities consumed about 80% of my time and mental bandwidth.
The problem with this approach is, my business model requires me to make very low offers.
Given how absurdly low my offers are, the vast majority of prospects are going to say “No” to me – and when this inevitably happens, it means all the time I spent up to this point of rejection was a total waste.
With everything I was doing BEFORE making each offer and being told in no uncertain terms “where to stick it”, it’s no wonder I was left feeling mentally and emotionally drained every time I heard a “No” response. I was wasting an incredible amount of time and was left with nothing to show for all of my work.
I was burnt out and I knew something had to change.
I needed a faster way to get each seller’s response WITHOUT wasting endless hours in the process.
The Buying Website
Eventually, I created a buying website for my business (and to this day, it’s one of the smartest things I’ve ever done for myself).
With this website, I was able to get most of the information I needed on each property without picking up the phone and I was able to do the bulk of my property research AFTER I had made my initial offer and the seller had responded with a “YES” to my proposal.
Instead of sending out a formal purchase agreement to each property owner, I could simply respond to each website submission with an email like this:
Hi <<Seller Name>>,
Thanks for your submission on our website! Would you consider selling your property for $______ cash? We are willing to pay for all of your closing costs and property taxes as part of the transaction.
If you have any interest, let me know.
Thanks! Seth
This was a huge development for my business because it cut out a TON of wasted time in my acquisition process.
It took me a whopping 30 seconds to send out offers this way (instead of the 30 – 60 minutes I was spending before).
But even so, I still found it a bit onerous to:
Open up every email submission that came in
Evaluate whether I wanted to make an offer based on the market value and level of motivation
Type out a nice email to let the property owner about my offer
Read the angry email responses that came back from more than half of the property owners
Now, I realize, we’re getting into “first world problems” territory – but even so, I knew there had to be a faster way to get these “email offers” sent out to people…
…and as it turned out, there was!
Enter TextExpander
One of the greatest pieces of software I use on my computer every day is a web app called TextExpander.
TextExpander allows me to use “snippets” that generate pre-saved emails, messages and other commonly used strings of text I type out every day.
Rather than re-typing these entire messages from scratch, I can just type out a short snippet (usually just a few letters) and TextExpander will pop-out the entire message for me.
RELATED: A Simple App That Changed My Life
An email that might normally take 5 – 10 minutes to write can be done in a matter of seconds. It’s pretty incredible!
But even so… I still had to open up every individual website submission, look at them and send out email offers based on a small fraction of what they told me the property was worth.
Don’t get me wrong… the process was significantly faster with TextExpander, but it still required that I pay attention.
I kept wishing there was a way for these offers to go out automatically, even if I was sleeping.
Enter REI Landleads
Back in early 2019, I heard from my friend Jessey who had started a company called REI Conversion.
He was in the process of building some incredible WordPress themes for land investors (I’m not exaggerating, check out this blog post and this blog post and you’ll see what I mean).
I had never seen a good web developer put so much energy into creating something like this for the land investing community before (because admittedly, we’re a small bunch). I saw this as a great opportunity to offer some ideas and feedback about how to build these themes right.
Luckily, he was actually interested in my input, so we put our heads together to make some of the most functional WordPress themes the real estate investing world has ever seen. These things aren’t just pretty, they’re built to do a job that no other WordPress theme can do!
One such example is the Automated Offers plugin (available only for REI Landleads users).
I explained to Jessey how I had always wanted a website that was smart enough to accept property submissions AND send out offers automatically so that EVERYONE who submits their property on my website would get an offer from me after a short delay. This would give my visitors the impression that they were being heard and responded to, and none of these submissions would fall between the cracks of my busy life.
Now, instead of me having to look at each individual submission and send them an offer manually, everything happens on autopilot.
Does it Work?
After running this plugin on my site for several months, I’ve been pretty surprised at how well it works.
The offers always go out like clockwork (I have it calibrated to wait for 60 minutes after receiving the submission before it sends each offer).
As expected, the vast majority of these auto-generated offers are either ignored, or the recipients will email back some kind of incredulous response.
“Insulting.”
“NO THANKS”
“Did you mean $46,000 or $4,600??”
“Are you high ?  seriously  $16.200  you trying to make your self a $165,000 profit ? why dont you just slap me in the face . You know as well as I do , that down here lake front property is money in the bank . Thst land is worth $180.000.”
(Like I said… I make low offers.)
But, the cool thing is – even with these negative responses, some of these people are happy to sell (again, as expected).
Remember, this is a numbers game. Most people aren’t the right fit for these kinds of low offers, but some of them are – and that’s who I’m looking for!
These are some of the actual responses I’ve gotten back from people:
“I’m ready right now.”
“I accept your offer.”
“I am willing to take your offer into consideration, although it’s two times lower than what I am willing to accept. Is it possible for you to offer $1,250 plus payments of $150 per month?”
The point is – ALL of these responses, whether the answer was “yes”, “no” or “maybe”, didn’t require one second of my time.
I was able to get real answers from people without spending any of my precious time or energy because the Automated Offers plugin did it for me.
What Happens When Everyone Gets an Offer?
The great thing about this kind of automation is that everyone gets an offer.
The only bad thing about it is that everyone gets an offer. 🙂
Obviously, if you send an offer to everyone, you’ll inevitably send offers on properties you don’t actually want (and it goes without saying, at least 90% of the offers you send out will either be ignored or they’ll be met with an angry response – especially if your offers are as low as mine).
The good news is, these “offers” generally don’t function as legally binding contracts that force you to move forward with the purchase.
I’m not making any promises to buy their property
I’m not signing anything
The property owner isn’t signing anything
I’m not putting down any kind of earnest deposit
This is literally just an email inquiry to ask what their response would be if they were presented with a low cash offer for their property.
Whatever their response is, you’re allowed to say “no thanks” if the property doesn’t suit you.
When I encounter this, I usually respond with an email like this:
Hi <<First Name>>,
Unfortunately, after looking closer at the specifics of this property, it doesn’t quite fit the profile of what we’re looking for and as such, we won’t be able to proceed with purchasing this property.
I apologize for any inconvenience and wish you all the best in getting your property sold ASAP.
Best regards, Seth
If you’re strapped for time like I usually am, do yourself a favor and start using ANY of the ideas listed above to stop wasting time in your acquisition process.
REI Landleads is probably the most expensive way to accomplish this (and I’ll admit, it’s a huge luxury), but it’s not the only way to get the job done.
Simply having a buying website where people can submit their properties 24/7, and other time-saving tools like TextExpander will go a LONG way in maintaining your sanity.
Life’s too short to waste your precious hours talking with prospects who are just going to tell you to “take a hike” in the end.
If you end up using any of these ideas in your business, let me know about it in the comments below! I’d love to hear how it’s helping in your workflow.
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