View from the Summit

I’m a tough guy. Yeah, right. Sometimes even now, after thirty-seven years of entrepreneurship, I want to crawl in the corner, face the wall, and escape to a place where I don’t have to face reality. There are so many hurdles to overcome, hoops to jump through, and choices to make that often I feel overwhelmed.

It appears in many situations that there is not

an optimum outcome, just the lesser of two evils.

As I evaluate what I’m experiencing, I don’t see the light, I don’t have the energy, and I feel defeated. I trick myself and say I will deal with this later, tomorrow will bring clarity.

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It was around 1990 I was pretty involved in buying real estate. I had bought a condo on the south side of Nashville called Paragon Mills. It was a foreclosure, and the profit was going to be pretty sweet. I held it a couple years to take full advantage of the capital gains tax vs. ordinary income. After advertising it for a couple months, a buyer surfaced, oddly enough, I knew him. We were by no means friends; he was just a local business person that had been very successful in his career (locals would know him if I used his real name). To protect the guilty, we will call him John. 

To make a really long and complicated chain of events much shorter, I will just go straight to the bottom line.

He cheated me out of $40,000 using a technicality that was hidden deep in the contract, unknown to anyone but him.