Thursday, January 22, 2009
For the last year and half it seems to me like this nation and its people have been walking on egg shells, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Looking and searching for boogie men and finding fault in everything till our very thoughts and actions are poising us, our economy and our nation.
How many bad thoughts should we have and more importantly, how long can we afford to expect terrible things to happen?
I’m not trying to be Pollyanna here about the situation our country is in or the challenges that the City of Detroit is facing. What I’m suggesting is that instead of focusing on pointing out faults and finding the cracks in every plan by punching holes in a leaking dam; we need to learn to ignore and quiet this nagging specter of fear that has us looking for monsters under the bed.
Anyone can find fault and tear down ideas, plans, projects, and dreams. Much more difficult to do is find ways to build solutions that work. Now is the time to start building rather than tearing down. President Barrack Obama spoke about the “gathering clouds and raging storms” on America’s horizon and the need to find solutions and make hard choices. I agree completely and I blogged at great length at my real estate investment club, Renegade Detroit Investors
Questions we should be asking ourselves are how can we find solutions to the issues we are facing? Urban Detroit Wholesalers focuses only on Detroit investment properties and we work closing with a local nonprofit, Motor City Blight Busters. While we are not blind to what is happening in Detroit and the nation, because we asked the right questions and focused on the solutions one small step at a time we have carved out a very profitable niche while rebuilding and stabilizing communities.
Urban Detroit Wholesalers:
· added over 100 jobs to the local economy
· rehabbed over 90 houses increasing property values
· provided quality rentals in areas that they were desperately needed
· retrained a dozen men and women in new trades via Blight Busters
· created dozens of homeowners via lease options and land contractors
· improved the lives of 20 seniors by providing housing projects via Blight Busters
· added over a million dollars of equity and thousands of dollars of cash flow to our investors
Everything that we have been able to accomplish is due solely to focusing on finding solutions and building positive communities. We decided long ago to ignore the specter of fear that would have you believe that there are no solutions and that in order for you to profit someone must lose. We created win-win solutions with banks, communities, nonprofit agencies, investors, and all of the trades men and women we employ while still creating a sound profit for us and our investors.
Go out and find ways to build your community, your job, your church, your relationships, and anywhere else you face challenges. Focus on solving one small challenge at a time. Imagine what this country would be like if thousands of men and women were building solutions and adding value to communities they live and invest in.
Now is time to build and be the solution one challenge at a time. We have enough of the other.
Make your life uncomfortable,
Jeremy Burgess
The Detroit Market Expert
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