Working Together

I celebrated a birthday this past week; I’m now 36 years old.  I think the biggest thing I’ve learned in the past couple years is how little I know.  I know that I’m gaining knowledge faster than ever before, but part of what I’ve learned is how important it is to have great people around you to help when you need it and point out things you didn’t or wouldn’t see.

We’ve made an offer on a house in Georgia and have had the inspections done.  They came back with some work that needed to be done.  I feel great that I have an agent there who can help me decide what to ask for and how to negotiate this.  Like this weeks Acton Hero though said, it’s great to have people to do things for you, but you still have to know what they are doing and what it all means.  I’ve been trying to educate myself on real estate, negotiation, and home ownership all over again. 

My $100 challenge still isn’t going the way I wanted it to and at this point I’ll have nothing to donate to my cause at all.  In the end I’ll only have some books that I’ll be donating to schools, instead of selling them as I had hoped. (Although I guess that’s not the worst thing in the world.)