Alty
Fastlane Driver

Two main things to talk about for December.

Something positive and something not so great.

Starting off with the not so great.

Still waiting to get a signed acceptation of my quote to build a house for a client.

He had a baby son just before christmas, who is now being treated in hospital with bronchitis.

This has obviously pushed his priorities away slightly esp with christmas etc meaning that I am in a bit of a halfway position.

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Things are looking up!

Fueled by this competition I took a jump
at starting my own construction company in France.

Infact here is the link that I posted after my first little job.
http://www.thefastlaneforum.com/blog...irst-week.html

The goal was to start raising enough cash to develop
property myself from the ground up,
as a builder this seemed a natural progression.

Things

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Ok, so here we are again.

I feel ready to make some serious moves towards my

real fastlane goal and I've got the backing of my other half.

This is the deal.

We have got a plot of land we can use

and I'm going to get some finance to build on it.

I have worked out that I'll need about 60,000 euros

to build a house of about 120m2.

At that size, and with the location of the house

we

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Ok so where was I?

Last time I posted here I was talking about starting up my own construction business.

That has happened.

And I've got my first few jobs under my belt.

However I've not really had enough to provide a proper income.

So, I have an agreement with my old boss.

He will let me work for him as a freelance builder (of sorts)

when I'm short on work.

I put together some advertising (using

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Copywriting

Something I've been building up over the last few months is my freelance copywriting service.

Although I've had a notion of copywriting for many years, I actually studied marketing

at college, I never really leveraged my writing to generate income.

Well, that is until recently, and infact I'm starting to get some clients, each one, slightly more interesting than the last.

It's a ton of work, especially as I am normally

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