Multifamily #Trust30: The Road ‘almost’ not Taken
Day 11 of the #Trust30 Challenge –
Consistent daily action is only a virtue when bundled with a willingness to remain open to the unknown. In this exercise, look at your current quest and ask, “What alternative opportunities, interpretations and paths am I not seeing?” They’re always there, but you’ve got to choose to see them.
I read this mornings prompt and instantly thought of Robert Frost’s classic: The Road Not Taken .
And, M. Scott Peck’s: The Road Less Traveled, another classic in it’s own right. I still remember the first sentence of the first chapter – Life is difficult.
Sure enough is…
Multifamily The Road Almost Not Taken
My start in the Multifamily business was a humble one. I was fresh out of college and had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up. So, I spent the next couple years dabbling in this and playing in that before I landed a job managing a 18-unit community on the wrong side of the tracks in the small town that I grew up in.
It was the type of PM job whereby the manager does it all. I was expected to mow the lawn, paint and maintenance the unit turns, complete all requests for service, clean and make ready the swamp coolers in the summer and just the opposite in prep for winter. I lived for free in exchange for taking care of the place. At that time in my life, it was awesome.
Fast forward two years, I decided to leave it all to go back and finish my college degree. The thought was that I would just get a service job to finish up the thirty or so hours I needed to graduate. Collections, I thought! I used to do that in high school for a furniture company. So, I interviewed and got the job. At the same time I had interviewed for and been extended an offer as a leasing consultant for a very large multifamily community in Lubbock Texas, The Beautiful Willow Bend – if my memory serves me correct.
Weighing my options and after some colorful debate with my girlfriend, at the time, I choose leasing. And, the rest is history.
To the point of The Prompt
Many of the alternatives that I get blessed with from time to time, look and feel dynamic and many of them might be. And, while my mind remains open – something I have learned to embrace over a long bit of time, my heart and mind are still on fire for this great business. My imagination is that I will one day be faced with the divergence of two paths in the road and I will choose the path less taken – just, not for now.
Your happy with the chosen path contributor,
M
Photo props to: Virtual Tourist
