Gifts from the Universe

[Shirley] I have a Spiritual Sister, who when asked, 'How d'ya feeling?' She always answers "I'm Blessed and Highly Favored". That's how I feel when I reflect on my experience at Big Apple Real Estate Investment Association (BA-REIA) and what it has done for me in the space of 1 short year. In terms of personal growth, it has been best thing to have happened to me, and continues to be. I love re-telling the story of how I found this particular REIA.

I had just finished reading "Who Moved My Cheese", and knew real estate would be the best avenue to seek out 'new' cheese as it were. A group of friends and I were planning to attend a workshop in Manhattan with Robert Kiyosaki. However, that weekend before the workshop, I had returned a rental car back to Enterprise, the driver who drove me back started asking questions about my neighborhood. It turned out he was a real estate agent, and he spoke candidly about the business, and I about wanting to be an investor. He told me it was very important that I joined a Real Estate Investment Association, and took out one of his business cards, the kind with his photo and wrote "Big Apple REIA" on the back. He suggested I go there, which I did and have never looked back.

The family welcome I received at that first general meeting was great, it was what I needed to get my can off the fence and finally do something about my dreams and goals. I signed up that very night, and within a week was on the bus tour to Baltimore, to educate, enjoy, and empower myself in the world of real estate investing. I've was overwhelmed by all that was happening around me -- meeting new people like myself, learning of opportunities, listening to educational tapes during the ride, asking questions, etc., it was great. On the way back from Baltimore, the conversations in the van was light, the President of Big Apple, Al Johnson asked how I found the REIA, I told him the name of the guy from the rental car company, but he'd never heard of him. Still I had no worries, I was happy to be there, because I could see my life taking a whole new direction.

Funny though, months later would I learned that no one within the REIA had ever seen this person who gave this card, and when I finally got around to call and thank this person, the receptionist said no one by that name worked there...

Blessed and Highly Favored!