Quit my job, running my real estate company and new beginnings

[passion518]

Hey guys!


I've been away from this forum for a long time. I attended the fastlane summit in 2016 and met some of you guys there. Since I've been completely inactive on here since then, I'm going to run down what has happened in my life and business from the beginning.


Here's the recap:



Girlfriend + First Child at Young Age

I started dating my girlfriend (now wife) when I was 18. By the time I was 20 (2010) she was pregnant with our first daughter. When my daughter was born I started reading, learning and networking as much as possible to get myself and my family in a better spot. I vowed to myself to give my daughter the best life possible and to be the best father possible. At the time, I worked an entry level position in a manufacturing company. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do.


Started Real Estate Company / First Deal

In 2015 I started my real estate company, Vantage Real Estate Solutions, with the intention of purchasing run down properties, renovating and holding. My dad was a carpenter and work was slow for him so I was solving a few problems at the same time. During the process of searching for our first deal we came across a property that didn't make sense as a rental - but could make us a quick buck as a flip. We did that and did well. 10 week job, $55k net (still one of my best deals to date). With our good profit, we (accidentally) were off to the races. We bought and flipped another house. Hired a few guys (as subcontractors), and my dad ran the guys during the day, then I would go after my day job and work til midnight most nights.


Marriage

I got married in April of 2016. Greatest decision I ever made. I have a great wife who always supports me in everything I do.


Duplex and Quadplex

Parallel to the second flip - we did find a home-run rental deal (duplex) that needed renovation. We tackled both at the same time. Finished the rental and had a few weeks left on the flip. Then we found ANOTHER home-run rental deal (quad-plex with garages).


LIFE KICKED ME IN THE TEETH

We were about 4 weeks into the quad-plex renovation, which was the largest job me or my dad had ever done. We projected it to be about a $150k rehab. There was a 3 car detached garage at the property that had an apartment above it. The water lines that ran underground from the house to the garage apartment had something wrong and we couldn’t get any water in that apartment. My dad and I went over on a Saturday morning to run new underground water lines. We rented an excavator and jackhammer. There were only about 3 sidewalk blocks to break up that were in our way. I was working on the excavator and my dad grabbed the jackhammer. I never liked to let him lift heavy shit, since his back sometimes bothered him. I asked him to switch with me, but he said he actually felt great and his back wasn't bothering him at all. We got the whole job done by around noon and went home for the day. My wife grabbed cheese steaks for us and my dad stopped at our place to eat. He went home and I took a nap. I woke up to a frantic phone call from my mom about an hour later. She was crying and said my dad collapsed in the shower. 58 years old, my dad who for the most part was in good health was taken from the world and from me.


I still blame myself a lot for that day.


So here I was, 25 years old with all of this work on the 4 unit building only in the beginning stages of a remodel, and my dad is gone. I also had another property (right next to the 4 unit) under contract to close in the next 3 weeks. With the duplex that we had just recently finished and rented out – I was having every problem under the sun…the subcontractor we used for vinyl siding did a bad job and some of the siding was popping off. Our plumber did a bad job connecting sink drains and we had leaks. The sump pump in the basement failed and the basement flooded messing up the water heaters and boilers – you name it – this is when it all went wrong.


While on the surface this may seem like the WORST time for everything to go wrong, and at the time it certainly felt like it – in hindsight, I’m grateful for all these problems. I truly believe all the problems are what kept me sane. I knew that if I didn’t get everything done quickly and efficiently I would quickly lose everything. I was heavily leveraged and couldn’t afford to mourn for a year, month, or even a week.


Keep On Going

I got the 4 unit done and fully rented out. I finished insanely over budget due to making stupid mistakes, mis-managing (basically no management) of the employees we still had, taking too long (high holding costs and taxes) and basically just making every mistake you can imagine. Even going over budget by $50k, it still made a lot of sense to hold onto. I refinanced and covered all my costs – financed $220k, and gross monthly rent is right around $4,500.


I closed on the other place I had under contract. This was going to be a rental that I’d hold also. I never had any desire to own single family rentals – I only wanted multifamily, but when this literally dropped in my lap for a $15k purchase price and was right next door to my 4 unit, I couldn’t turn it down. For the rehab, I used the guys that my dad and I had working for us to do most of the work, and put in a lot of sweat equity myself. The place wasn’t horrible, basically just a cosmetic rehab. No floor plan changes, no HVAC work, no electrical, some pluming. Again – a million problems but got the job done.






The Gabion Wall Flip Property

Parallel to finishing that job, I got another property that I intended to flip under contract. I had an equity partner that had done some real estate deals and other business/financial deals with me. Detailing what we had done prior would be another whole story. 2 weeks prior to closing on the flip, I realized the guys working for me were totally F*cking me. Now I admit, much of it was my fault due to lack of management (I was still working my full time job and managing them by having a phone call each morning and texts throughout the day). I found out that for at least a 2 week period – and probably LONG before that – the 3 guys were basically showing up 2 or 3 hours late, leaving early, and buying extra materials that I didn’t need – for them to take. I got rid of all them and kicked myself for being stupid.


Now I had to do the first big job since losing my dad, and I had no team to support me, no one to guide me, nothing. Though I had been around trades my whole life and I am mechanically skilled – I have never been employed in any trade. How the F*ck was I, some dumb kid, going to get this job done? One. Bite. At. A. Time.


I basically worked on the place nights and weekends. This is when I (almost) perfected the art of working quietly. When your rehabbing a house at midinight – you tend to piss a lot of neighbors off, so I had to figure out how to be quiet after 8pm. I did hire a $10/hr high school grad to go over during the day and clean up and do basic odds and ends, and I hired a sub to do vinyl siding. My partner did some of the electrical work and other tasks with me, but for the most part I had to get it all done myself.


The biggest challenge at this place was that outback there was a creek only about 20 feet away from the house. There was a failed retaining wall that was about 8 feet tall that I had to do something about. I wanted to basically rebuild it as it was originally. When applying for the permit, the township told me I need DEP authorization. I called around and looked into the process. Basically, to pour any sort of footer or build any sort of permanent structure along a waterway would have cost me about $10k in surveying, engineering, approvals, etc, and would be about a 12-18 month process. F*ck. I couldn’t lose 10k and 18 months on this place – I had to get it done cheap and turned around quick! I read a lot and started driving around and looking at waterways with walls around them. I learned about gabion baskets, which are basically steel cages with rocks inside. I figured this would be a damn good work around and gray area for me to be able to get by. After all – it is not a “permanent” structure and I wouldn’t be pouring any concrete, etc. I ran the idea by the township and they said – go for it! There were many more hurdles – but I got the wall done. Basically I built the gabion baskets about 3’ high right along the water, then build a standard retaining wall about 2 feet back from the gabion baskets, about another 3’ tall. All in all, a challenging job, but I got it done. That was a big accomplishment for me. This is when I realized – I actually can do this shit.




Growing and Branching Out

I went on and did a few more flips. I ventured into Philadelphia. A buddy of mine had already been doing jobs in the city and he lost his funding partner (long story). I had funding lined up, now having good relations with my banks, my equity partner, and I had lined up at least a half dozen other private investors just by constantly selling myself to the people around me. We started a partnership and did a few jobs in the city.


Dad x2 + Wife Quits Job + Moving

My wife was pregnant with our second daughter when she called me one day crying from her job. She had worked for a company making medical records into digital format. She was calling and telling me how one of her bosses was bashing her for a mistake she made. She hated the guy and he would often make sexist remarks to her and all the other girls in the office. I didn’t even think about what I told her to do. “Babe, quit.” “What do you mean? I can’t just quit! They’ll yell at me even more and put me down and make me feel like shit!” “How will we pay the bills!?” “Babe, just quit. We’ll be fine”. She quit, and that was that. I would never allow my wife to ever feel out of control and belittled by a “boss” ever again.


I sold our first personal residence in Ridley Park, PA and moved to West Chester, PA. My wife was still pregnant with our second daughter during the move. The new house was a fixer upper also, but I was more inclined to stay in the West Chester area longer. There were great schools and the property taxes were much cheaper than Ridley Park, and now I had an acre of land – and a pool. All this came with a much bigger payment of course.



Since then, and to this date – she now helps with managing the 7 rental units we have and does tasks like marketing, tenant screening, tenant management, repair scheduling, etc. She also handles a lot of my payables across the whole company. Most importantly – she’s a kick a$$ mom.



Growing Someone Else’s Company / I Quit

Parallel to all this – I had been advancing like hell at my day job. Turns out reading hundreds of business, marketing, sales and finance books, while working on your own business makes you pretty attractive to the company you’ve been working at for years. The owner saw my successes in my business and wanted me to implement some of the thing I had learned in his business. In late 2017 he asked me to help run his company form a product development, sales and marketing, and operational management, and systems development position. As I write this - It’s tough to even call it a position, because everything about it was actually more about the lack of positions. Fundamentally and operationally, basically everything at the company was a mess. There was no overall direction, no target, no goals, no training, and very few systems. I was excited to help out as I truly felt I could make a huge impact and set some systems in place and get the company running like a machine with a purpose.


I spent a few months working on some new product development, branding, marketing, and sales. It was really hard to get this across to the owner – but everything I was doing literally would have been easier if we were a new company. All the new development we were doing was basically a different market and an entirely different business model. We were a customized, build to order business. Now we were building high end performance parts that WEREN’T custom. This meant we needed inventory, and ALL new systems and processes on how to do everything from market/product analysis to engineering, to handling operationally. Everything was moving along, but the company experienced a really bad cash flow crunch by the end of the second quarter in 2018. Cash flow crunches were normal for us. Very normal... But at this point I got tired of hearing about it. A lot of the problems were due to the owner and choices he made. (He’s my buddy to this date, and I have no problem telling him ALL of this, and have on many occasions). One morning he bitched to me for 4 hours, yes 4 hours, about how “hard” everything is. It’s not like I didn’t understand his position or stance. I did. I understood most of it. The problem was, in my opinion, he wasn’t working to fix the problems. He let the problems live and just dealt with them until they all built up, and I couldn’t stand hearing about it one more time.


I didn’t think much about the conversation the rest of the day. It was nothing new. I had other things to focus on in literally every moment not spent trying to build his company. I had 6 rehabs going on, 1 for sale, and 2 more under contract. I woke up the next morning and called my boss on my ride into work. I didn’t plan on doing what I did, but the conversation quickly turned into complaining again from him. I snapped. The day prior had me on edge and I said F*ck THIS. I told him to stop being a bitch and DO SOMETHING about the problems. I unleashed all the things that I felt he is doing wrong, not in an a**hole way – but a constructive way (if that makes sense). He took it well and agreed on most points. He asked what I would do if I was him. I rattled off a few things. The biggest was this – stop trying to grow when you have no capital. Our core products that we’ve built for years are insanely profitable and we’re good and efficient at making them. For years he has been taking all the profit to try to diversify into other markets. While I don’t disagree with this method entirely – the execution was always horrible. My advice was not what he wanted to hear. I told him given the current market and financial position of the company, I would lay off 75% of the employees, sell a lot of equipment and go back to the super profitable products and run the company for 18-24 months. Let it build profit and at the end of 24 months if you really want to diversify into other markets – now you’ll have the capital to do so.


In finishing saying that, I felt that it was so true and the ONLY way for him to survive and thrive as a company. He agreed completely…but he didn’t want to do it. It didn’t align with his impatient and unrealistic goals. As common – he didn’t want to make the hard decisions, even when he knew they were right. So I did what I figured would validate that I truly believed in the advice I gave him, and I quit. I told him it’s the only way you’re going to get it off the ground. Cut all your overhead and go back to the grass roots. Good luck.


I immediately felt relieved. I didn’t think about any of the problems that would arise from this. I just did it. My company was already profitable and had a history. I had more work then ever. My company needed me. I told the owner I’d stick around for 6 weeks so I could set in place a few of the things I had been working on. There was literally no one to hand anything off to. I just had to set shit in place myself or my work would be lost forever. I told him at the end of the 6 weeks I would stay on as a consultant if he needed me. I knew he would need this, and I knew the company could afford this.


Why My Company Exists

There’s a lot I hate about flipping, but when I started it was a means to generate capital to be able to acquire rental properties. With my current 7 rental units, I have grown more wealth than with any other combination of deals I have done. At the same time, they generate enough cash flow that I can cover many of my living expenses. (My goal was to get a few more cash flowing units under my belt before jumping ship and doing my own thing – but that’s just not how life worked out for me I guess).


In the time I have spent running my business I have witnessed a lot of other people try to do the same as me and failed. When breaking it down I think there’s a really simple reason for this. Most people jump into flipping and owning rentals to better THEMSELVES. While I admit this is why I started also – this is NO LONGER why I still do it. I realized that I am really good at controlling costs and offering a finished product unrivaled by any other flipper or developer in my market. I realized that if I’m not doing it – someone else will, and they WON’T do as good a job as me. If I can provide more value to my market and consumers than the next guy, I not only am happy to do so…but I feel it is my responsibility to do so.


Today

This brings us to today. As of writing this, it has been 3 weeks since I left the company and have been focusing on my business. I currently have 6 active flips going on, 1 under contract to close (purchase) this week, and more potential deals in the pipeline.



So, my goal was that once I generated enough cash flow to cover expenses – I would continue running my business flipping houses, continue purchasing rentals, and with all my “free time” from not having a job anymore I would focus on a product based business that DOES follow all the commandments. I’ve mentally jumped around a bit on WHAT exactly I could do to provide the most value to the world. Since I jumped ship and deviated from my previous plan, I’m trying to shake everything out sooner!


In my next post I’ll share my current idea!

 

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[Zenoviy Kovtun]

Jiz hazt!


O'wi ciip exez gsun vjot gusan gus e muph voni. O evvipfif vji getvmepi tannov op 2016 epf niv tuni ug zua hazt vjisi. Topdi O'wi ciip dunqmivimz opedvowi up jisi topdi vjip, O'n huoph vu sap fuxp xjev jet jeqqipif op nz mogi epf catopitt gsun vji cihoppoph.


Jisi't vji sideq:



Hosmgsoipf + Gostv Djomf ev Zuaph Ehi

O tvesvif fevoph nz hosmgsoipf (pux xogi) xjip O xet 18. Cz vji voni O xet 20 (2010) tji xet qsihpepv xovj uas gostv feahjvis. Xjip nz feahjvis xet cusp O tvesvif siefoph, miespoph epf pivxusloph et nadj et quttocmi vu hiv nztimg epf nz genomz op e civvis tquv. O wuxif vu nztimg vu howi nz feahjvis vji citv mogi quttocmi epf vu ci vji citv gevjis quttocmi. Ev vji voni, O xuslif ep ipvsz miwim qutovoup op e nepagedvasoph dunqepz. Ov vuul ni e xjomi vu gohasi uav xjev O xepvif vu fu.


Tvesvif Siem Itvevi Dunqepz / Gostv Fiem

Op 2015 O tvesvif nz siem itvevi dunqepz, Wepvehi Siem Itvevi Tumavoupt, xovj vji opvipvoup ug qasdjetoph sap fuxp qsuqisvoit, sipuwevoph epf jumfoph. Nz fef xet e desqipvis epf xusl xet tmux gus jon tu O xet tumwoph e gix qsucmint ev vji teni voni. Fasoph vji qsuditt ug tiesdjoph gus uas gostv fiem xi deni edsutt e qsuqisvz vjev fofp'v neli tipti et e sipvem - cav duamf neli at e raodl cadl et e gmoq. Xi fof vjev epf fof ximm. 10 xiil kuc, $55l piv (tvomm upi ug nz citv fiemt vu fevi). Xovj uas huuf qsugov, xi (eddofipvemmz) xisi ugg vu vji sedit. Xi cuahjv epf gmoqqif epuvjis juati. Josif e gix hazt (et tacdupvsedvust), epf nz fef sep vji hazt fasoph vji fez, vjip O xuamf hu egvis nz fez kuc epf xusl vom nofpohjv nutv pohjvt.


Nessoehi

O huv nessoif op Eqsom ug 2016. Hsievitv fidotoup O iwis nefi. O jewi e hsiev xogi xju emxezt taqqusvt ni op iwiszvjoph O fu.


Faqmiy epf Raefqmiy

Qesemmim vu vji tidupf gmoq - xi fof gopf e juni-sap sipvem fiem (faqmiy) vjev piifif sipuwevoup. Xi vedlmif cuvj ev vji teni voni. Gopotjif vji sipvem epf jef e gix xiilt migv up vji gmoq. Vjip xi guapf EPUVJIS juni-sap sipvem fiem (raef-qmiy xovj hesehit).


MOGI LODLIF NI OP VJI VIIVJ

Xi xisi ecuav 4 xiilt opvu vji raef-qmiy sipuwevoup, xjodj xet vji meshitv kuc ni us nz fef jef iwis fupi. Xi qsukidvif ov vu ci ecuav e $150l sijec. Vjisi xet e 3 des fivedjif hesehi ev vji qsuqisvz vjev jef ep eqesvnipv ecuwi ov. Vji xevis mopit vjev sep apfishsuapf gsun vji juati vu vji hesehi eqesvnipv jef tunivjoph xsuph epf xi duamfp’v hiv epz xevis op vjev eqesvnipv. Nz fef epf O xipv uwis up e Tevasfez nuspoph vu sap pix apfishsuapf xevis mopit. Xi sipvif ep iydewevus epf kedljennis. Vjisi xisi upmz ecuav 3 tofixeml cmudlt vu csiel aq vjev xisi op uas xez. O xet xusloph up vji iydewevus epf nz fef hseccif vji kedljennis. O piwis molif vu miv jon mogv jiewz tj*v, topdi jot cedl tunivonit cuvjisif jon. O etlif jon vu txovdj xovj ni, cav ji teof ji edvaemmz gimv hsiev epf jot cedl xetp'v cuvjisoph jon ev emm. Xi huv vji xjumi kuc fupi cz esuapf puup epf xipv juni gus vji fez. Nz xogi hseccif djiiti tvielt gus at epf nz fef tvuqqif ev uas qmedi vu iev. Ji xipv juni epf O vuul e peq. O xuli aq vu e gsepvod qjupi demm gsun nz nun ecuav ep juas mevis. Tji xet dszoph epf teof nz fef dummeqtif op vji tjuxis. 58 ziest umf, nz fef xju gus vji nutv qesv xet op huuf jiemvj xet velip gsun vji xusmf epf gsun ni.


O tvomm cmeni nztimg e muv gus vjev fez.


Tu jisi O xet, 25 ziest umf xovj emm ug vjot xusl up vji 4 apov caomfoph upmz op vji cihoppoph tvehit ug e sinufim, epf nz fef ot hupi. O emtu jef epuvjis qsuqisvz (sohjv piyv vu vji 4 apov) apfis dupvsedv vu dmuti op vji piyv 3 xiilt. Xovj vji faqmiy vjev xi jef katv sidipvmz gopotjif epf sipvif uav – O xet jewoph iwisz qsucmin apfis vji tap…vji tacdupvsedvus xi atif gus wopzm tofoph fof e cef kuc epf tuni ug vji tofoph xet quqqoph ugg. Uas qmancis fof e cef kuc duppidvoph topl fseopt epf xi jef mielt. Vji tanq qanq op vji cetinipv geomif epf vji cetinipv gmuufif nittoph aq vji xevis jievist epf cuomist – zua peni ov – vjot ot xjip ov emm xipv xsuph.


Xjomi up vji tasgedi vjot nez tiin moli vji XUSTV voni gus iwiszvjoph vu hu xsuph, epf ev vji voni ov disveopmz gimv moli ov – op jopftohjv, O’n hsevigam gus emm vjiti qsucmint. O vsamz cimoiwi emm vji qsucmint esi xjev liqv ni tepi. O lpix vjev og O fofp’v hiv iwiszvjoph fupi raodlmz epf iggodoipvmz O xuamf raodlmz muti iwiszvjoph. O xet jiewomz miwisehif epf duamfp’v eggusf vu nuasp gus e zies, nupvj, us iwip e xiil.


Liiq Up Huoph

O huv vji 4 apov fupi epf gammz sipvif uav. O gopotjif optepimz uwis cafhiv fai vu neloph tvaqof notvelit, not-nepehoph (cetodemmz pu nepehinipv) ug vji inqmuziit xi tvomm jef, veloph vuu muph (johj jumfoph dutvt epf veyit) epf cetodemmz katv neloph iwisz notveli zua dep onehopi. Iwip huoph uwis cafhiv cz $50l, ov tvomm nefi e muv ug tipti vu jumf upvu. O sigopepdif epf duwisif emm nz dutvt – gopepdif $220l, epf hsutt nupvjmz sipv ot sohjv esuapf $4,500.


O dmutif up vji uvjis qmedi O jef apfis dupvsedv. Vjot xet huoph vu ci e sipvem vjev O’f jumf emtu. O piwis jef epz fitosi vu uxp tophmi genomz sipvemt – O upmz xepvif namvogenomz, cav xjip vjot movisemmz fsuqqif op nz meq gus e $15l qasdjeti qsodi epf xet sohjv piyv fuus vu nz 4 apov, O duamfp’v vasp ov fuxp. Gus vji sijec, O atif vji hazt vjev nz fef epf O jef xusloph gus at vu fu nutv ug vji xusl, epf qav op e muv ug txiev iraovz nztimg. Vji qmedi xetp’v jussocmi, cetodemmz katv e dutnivod sijec. Pu gmuus qmep djephit, pu JWED xusl, pu imidvsodem, tuni qmanoph. Eheop – e nommoup qsucmint cav huv vji kuc fupi.






Vji Hecoup Xemm Gmoq Qsuqisvz

Qesemmim vu gopotjoph vjev kuc, O huv epuvjis qsuqisvz vjev O opvipfif vu gmoq apfis dupvsedv. O jef ep iraovz qesvpis vjev jef fupi tuni siem itvevi fiemt epf uvjis catopitt/gopepdoem fiemt xovj ni. Fiveomoph xjev xi jef fupi qsous xuamf ci epuvjis xjumi tvusz. 2 xiilt qsous vu dmutoph up vji gmoq, O siemobif vji hazt xusloph gus ni xisi vuvemmz g*dloph ni. Pux O efnov, nadj ug ov xet nz geamv fai vu medl ug nepehinipv (O xet tvomm xusloph nz gamm voni kuc epf nepehoph vjin cz jewoph e qjupi demm iedj nuspoph epf viyvt vjsuahjuav vji fez). O guapf uav vjev gus ev mietv e 2 xiil qisouf – epf qsucecmz MUPH cigusi vjev – vji 3 hazt xisi cetodemmz tjuxoph aq 2 us 3 juast mevi, miewoph iesmz, epf cazoph iyvse nevisoemt vjev O fofp’v piif – gus vjin vu veli. O huv sof ug emm vjin epf lodlif nztimg gus cioph tvaqof.


Pux O jef vu fu vji gostv coh kuc topdi mutoph nz fef, epf O jef pu vien vu taqqusv ni, pu upi vu haofi ni, puvjoph. Vjuahj O jef ciip esuapf vsefit nz xjumi mogi epf O en nidjepodemmz tlommif – O jewi piwis ciip inqmuzif op epz vsefi. Jux vji g*dl xet O, tuni fanc lof, huoph vu hiv vjot kuc fupi? Upi. Covi. Ev. E. Voni.


O cetodemmz xuslif up vji qmedi pohjvt epf xiilipft. Vjot ot xjip O (emnutv) qisgidvif vji esv ug xusloph raoivmz. Xjip zuas sijeccoph e juati ev nofopohjv – zua vipf vu qott e muv ug piohjcust ugg, tu O jef vu gohasi uav jux vu ci raoiv egvis 8qn. O fof josi e $10/js johj tdjuum hsef vu hu uwis fasoph vji fez epf dmiep aq epf fu cetod ufft epf ipft, epf O josif e tac vu fu wopzm tofoph. Nz qesvpis fof tuni ug vji imidvsodem xusl epf uvjis vetlt xovj ni, cav gus vji nutv qesv O jef vu hiv ov emm fupi nztimg.


Vji cohhitv djemmiphi ev vjot qmedi xet vjev uavcedl vjisi xet e dsiil upmz ecuav 20 giiv exez gsun vji juati. Vjisi xet e geomif siveopoph xemm vjev xet ecuav 8 giiv vemm vjev O jef vu fu tunivjoph ecuav. O xepvif vu cetodemmz sicaomf ov et ov xet usohopemmz. Xjip eqqmzoph gus vji qisnov, vji vuxptjoq vumf ni O piif FIQ eavjusobevoup. O demmif esuapf epf muulif opvu vji qsuditt. Cetodemmz, vu quas epz tusv ug guuvis us caomf epz tusv ug qisnepipv tvsadvasi emuph e xevisxez xuamf jewi dutv ni ecuav $10l op taswizoph, iphopiisoph, eqqsuwemt, ivd, epf xuamf ci ecuav e 12-18 nupvj qsuditt. g*dl. O duamfp’v muti 10l epf 18 nupvjt up vjot qmedi – O jef vu hiv ov fupi djieq epf vaspif esuapf raodl! O sief e muv epf tvesvif fsowoph esuapf epf muuloph ev xevisxezt xovj xemmt esuapf vjin. O miespif ecuav hecoup cetlivt, xjodj esi cetodemmz tviim dehit xovj sudlt optofi. O gohasif vjot xuamf ci e fenp huuf xusl esuapf epf hsez esie gus ni vu ci ecmi vu hiv cz. Egvis emm – ov ot puv e “qisnepipv” tvsadvasi epf O xuamfp’v ci quasoph epz dupdsivi, ivd. O sep vji ofie cz vji vuxptjoq epf vjiz teof – hu gus ov! Vjisi xisi nepz nusi jasfmit – cav O huv vji xemm fupi. Cetodemmz O caomv vji hecoup cetlivt ecuav 3’ johj sohjv emuph vji xevis, vjip caomf e tvepfesf siveopoph xemm ecuav 2 giiv cedl gsun vji hecoup cetlivt, ecuav epuvjis 3’ vemm. Emm op emm, e djemmiphoph kuc, cav O huv ov fupi. Vjev xet e coh eddunqmotjnipv gus ni. Vjot ot xjip O siemobif – O edvaemmz dep fu vjot tj*v.




Hsuxoph epf Csepdjoph Uav

O xipv up epf fof e gix nusi gmoqt. O wipvasif opvu Qjomefimqjoe. E caffz ug nopi jef emsiefz ciip fuoph kuct op vji dovz epf ji mutv jot gapfoph qesvpis (muph tvusz). O jef gapfoph mopif aq, pux jewoph huuf simevoupt xovj nz ceplt, nz iraovz qesvpis, epf O jef mopif aq ev mietv e jemg fubip uvjis qsowevi opwitvust katv cz duptvepvmz timmoph nztimg vu vji qiuqmi esuapf ni. Xi tvesvif e qesvpistjoq epf fof e gix kuct op vji dovz.


Fef y2 + Xogi Raovt Kuc + Nuwoph

Nz xogi xet qsihpepv xovj uas tidupf feahjvis xjip tji demmif ni upi fez dszoph gsun jis kuc. Tji jef xuslif gus e dunqepz neloph nifodem sidusft opvu fohovem gusnev. Tji xet demmoph epf vimmoph ni jux upi ug jis cuttit xet cetjoph jis gus e notveli tji nefi. Tji jevif vji haz epf ji xuamf ugvip neli tiyotv sineslt vu jis epf emm vji uvjis hosmt op vji uggodi. O fofp’v iwip vjopl ecuav xjev O vumf jis vu fu. “Ceci, raov.” “Xjev fu zua niep? O dep’v katv raov! Vjiz’mm zimm ev ni iwip nusi epf qav ni fuxp epf neli ni giim moli tj*v!” “Jux xomm xi qez vji commt!?” “Ceci, katv raov. Xi’mm ci gopi”. Tji raov, epf vjev xet vjev. O xuamf piwis emmux nz xogi vu iwis giim uav ug dupvsum epf cimovvmif cz e “cutt” iwis eheop.


O tumf uas gostv qistupem sitofipdi op Sofmiz Qesl, QE epf nuwif vu Xitv Djitvis, QE. Nz xogi xet tvomm qsihpepv xovj uas tidupf feahjvis fasoph vji nuwi. Vji pix juati xet e goyis aqqis emtu, cav O xet nusi opdmopif vu tvez op vji Xitv Djitvis esie muphis. Vjisi xisi hsiev tdjuumt epf vji qsuqisvz veyit xisi nadj djieqis vjep Sofmiz Qesl, epf pux O jef ep edsi ug mepf – epf e quum. Emm vjot deni xovj e nadj cohhis qeznipv ug duasti.



Topdi vjip, epf vu vjot fevi – tji pux jimqt xovj nepehoph vji 7 sipvem apovt xi jewi epf fuit vetlt moli neslivoph, vipepv tdsiipoph, vipepv nepehinipv, siqeos tdjifamoph, ivd. Tji emtu jepfmit e muv ug nz qezecmit edsutt vji xjumi dunqepz. Nutv onqusvepvmz – tji’t e lodl ett nun.



Hsuxoph Tuniupi Imti’t Dunqepz / O Raov

Qesemmim vu emm vjot – O jef ciip efwepdoph moli jimm ev nz fez kuc. Vaspt uav siefoph japfsift ug catopitt, neslivoph, temit epf gopepdi cuult, xjomi xusloph up zuas uxp catopitt nelit zua qsivvz evvsedvowi vu vji dunqepz zua’wi ciip xusloph ev gus ziest. Vji uxpis tex nz taddittit op nz catopitt epf xepvif ni vu onqminipv tuni ug vji vjoph O jef miespif op jot catopitt. Op mevi 2017 ji etlif ni vu jimq sap jot dunqepz gusn e qsufadv fiwimuqnipv, temit epf neslivoph, epf uqisevoupem nepehinipv, epf tztvint fiwimuqnipv qutovoup. Et O xsovi vjot - Ov’t vuahj vu iwip demm ov e qutovoup, cideati iwiszvjoph ecuav ov xet edvaemmz nusi ecuav vji medl ug qutovoupt. Gapfenipvemmz epf uqisevoupemmz, cetodemmz iwiszvjoph ev vji dunqepz xet e nitt. Vjisi xet pu uwisemm fosidvoup, pu veshiv, pu huemt, pu vseopoph, epf wisz gix tztvint. O xet iydovif vu jimq uav et O vsamz gimv O duamf neli e jahi onqedv epf tiv tuni tztvint op qmedi epf hiv vji dunqepz sappoph moli e nedjopi xovj e qasquti.


O tqipv e gix nupvjt xusloph up tuni pix qsufadv fiwimuqnipv, csepfoph, neslivoph, epf temit. Ov xet siemmz jesf vu hiv vjot edsutt vu vji uxpis – cav iwiszvjoph O xet fuoph movisemmz xuamf jewi ciip ietois og xi xisi e pix dunqepz. Emm vji pix fiwimuqnipv xi xisi fuoph xet cetodemmz e foggisipv nesliv epf ep ipvosimz foggisipv catopitt nufim. Xi xisi e datvunobif, caomf vu usfis catopitt. Pux xi xisi caomfoph johj ipf qisgusnepdi qesvt vjev XISIP’V datvun. Vjot niepv xi piifif opwipvusz, epf EMM pix tztvint epf qsudittit up jux vu fu iwiszvjoph gsun nesliv/qsufadv epemztot vu iphopiisoph, vu jepfmoph uqisevoupemmz. Iwiszvjoph xet nuwoph emuph, cav vji dunqepz iyqisoipdif e siemmz cef detj gmux dsapdj cz vji ipf ug vji tidupf raesvis op 2018. Detj gmux dsapdjit xisi pusnem gus at. Wisz pusnem... Cav ev vjot quopv O huv vosif ug jiesoph ecuav ov. E muv ug vji qsucmint xisi fai vu vji uxpis epf djuodit ji nefi. (Ji’t nz caffz vu vjot fevi, epf O jewi pu qsucmin vimmoph jon EMM ug vjot, epf jewi up nepz uddetoupt). Upi nuspoph ji covdjif vu ni gus 4 juast, zit 4 juast, ecuav jux “jesf” iwiszvjoph ot. Ov’t puv moli O fofp’v apfistvepf jot qutovoup us tvepdi. O fof. O apfistvuuf nutv ug ov. Vji qsucmin xet, op nz uqopoup, ji xetp’v xusloph vu goy vji qsucmint. Ji miv vji qsucmint mowi epf katv fiemv xovj vjin apvom vjiz emm caomv aq, epf O duamfp’v tvepf jiesoph ecuav ov upi nusi voni.


O fofp’v vjopl nadj ecuav vji dupwistevoup vji sitv ug vji fez. Ov xet puvjoph pix. O jef uvjis vjopht vu gudat up op movisemmz iwisz nunipv puv tqipv vszoph vu caomf jot dunqepz. O jef 6 siject huoph up, 1 gus temi, epf 2 nusi apfis dupvsedv. O xuli aq vji piyv nuspoph epf demmif nz cutt up nz sofi opvu xusl. O fofp’v qmep up fuoph xjev O fof, cav vji dupwistevoup raodlmz vaspif opvu dunqmeopoph eheop gsun jon. O tpeqqif. Vji fez qsous jef ni up ifhi epf O teof g*dl VJOT. O vumf jon vu tvuq cioph e covdj epf FU TUNIVJOPH ecuav vji qsucmint. O apmietjif emm vji vjopht vjev O gimv ji ot fuoph xsuph, puv op ep ettjumi xez – cav e duptvsadvowi xez (og vjev nelit tipti). Ji vuul ov ximm epf ehsiif up nutv quopvt. Ji etlif xjev O xuamf fu og O xet jon. O sevvmif ugg e gix vjopht. Vji cohhitv xet vjot – tvuq vszoph vu hsux xjip zua jewi pu deqovem. Uas dusi qsufadvt vjev xi’wi caomv gus ziest esi optepimz qsugovecmi epf xi’si huuf epf iggodoipv ev neloph vjin. Gus ziest ji jet ciip veloph emm vji qsugov vu vsz vu fowistogz opvu uvjis neslivt. Xjomi O fup’v fotehsii xovj vjot nivjuf ipvosimz – vji iyidavoup xet emxezt jussocmi. Nz efwodi xet puv xjev ji xepvif vu jies. O vumf jon howip vji dassipv nesliv epf gopepdoem qutovoup ug vji dunqepz, O xuamf mez ugg 75% ug vji inqmuziit, timm e muv ug iraoqnipv epf hu cedl vu vji taqis qsugovecmi qsufadvt epf sap vji dunqepz gus 18-24 nupvjt. Miv ov caomf qsugov epf ev vji ipf ug 24 nupvjt og zua siemmz xepv vu fowistogz opvu uvjis neslivt – pux zua’mm jewi vji deqovem vu fu tu.


Op gopotjoph tezoph vjev, O gimv vjev ov xet tu vsai epf vji UPMZ xez gus jon vu taswowi epf vjsowi et e dunqepz. Ji ehsiif dunqmivimz…cav ji fofp’v xepv vu fu ov. Ov fofp’v emohp xovj jot onqevoipv epf apsiemotvod huemt. Et dunnup – ji fofp’v xepv vu neli vji jesf fidotoupt, iwip xjip ji lpix vjiz xisi sohjv. Tu O fof xjev O gohasif xuamf wemofevi vjev O vsamz cimoiwif op vji efwodi O hewi jon, epf O raov. O vumf jon ov’t vji upmz xez zua’si huoph vu hiv ov ugg vji hsuapf. Dav emm zuas uwisjief epf hu cedl vu vji hsett suuvt. Huuf madl.


O onnifoevimz gimv simoiwif. O fofp’v vjopl ecuav epz ug vji qsucmint vjev xuamf esoti gsun vjot. O katv fof ov. Nz dunqepz xet emsiefz qsugovecmi epf jef e jotvusz. O jef nusi xusl vjip iwis. Nz dunqepz piifif ni. O vumf vji uxpis O’f tvodl esuapf gus 6 xiilt tu O duamf tiv op qmedi e gix ug vji vjopht O jef ciip xusloph up. Vjisi xet movisemmz pu upi vu jepf epzvjoph ugg vu. O katv jef vu tiv tj*v op qmedi nztimg us nz xusl xuamf ci mutv gusiwis. O vumf jon ev vji ipf ug vji 6 xiilt O xuamf tvez up et e duptamvepv og ji piifif ni. O lpix ji xuamf piif vjot, epf O lpix vji dunqepz duamf eggusf vjot.


Xjz Nz Dunqepz Iyotvt

Vjisi’t e muv O jevi ecuav gmoqqoph, cav xjip O tvesvif ov xet e niept vu hipisevi deqovem vu ci ecmi vu edraosi sipvem qsuqisvoit. Xovj nz dassipv 7 sipvem apovt, O jewi hsuxp nusi xiemvj vjep xovj epz uvjis duncopevoup ug fiemt O jewi fupi. Ev vji teni voni, vjiz hipisevi ipuahj detj gmux vjev O dep duwis nepz ug nz mowoph iyqiptit. (Nz huem xet vu hiv e gix nusi detj gmuxoph apovt apfis nz cimv cigusi kanqoph tjoq epf fuoph nz uxp vjoph – cav vjev’t katv puv jux mogi xuslif uav gus ni O haitt).


Op vji voni O jewi tqipv sappoph nz catopitt O jewi xovpittif e muv ug uvjis qiuqmi vsz vu fu vji teni et ni epf geomif. Xjip csieloph ov fuxp O vjopl vjisi’t e siemmz tonqmi sietup gus vjot. Nutv qiuqmi kanq opvu gmoqqoph epf uxpoph sipvemt vu civvis VJINTIMWIT. Xjomi O efnov vjot ot xjz O tvesvif emtu – vjot ot PU MUPHIS xjz O tvomm fu ov. O siemobif vjev O en siemmz huuf ev dupvsummoph dutvt epf uggisoph e gopotjif qsufadv apsowemif cz epz uvjis gmoqqis us fiwimuqis op nz nesliv. O siemobif vjev og O’n puv fuoph ov – tuniupi imti xomm, epf vjiz XUP’V fu et huuf e kuc et ni. Og O dep qsuwofi nusi wemai vu nz nesliv epf duptanist vjep vji piyv haz, O puv upmz en jeqqz vu fu tu…cav O giim ov ot nz sitquptocomovz vu fu tu.


Vufez

Vjot csopht at vu vufez. Et ug xsovoph vjot, ov jet ciip 3 xiilt topdi O migv vji dunqepz epf jewi ciip gudatoph up nz catopitt. O dassipvmz jewi 6 edvowi gmoqt huoph up, 1 apfis dupvsedv vu dmuti (qasdjeti) vjot xiil, epf nusi quvipvoem fiemt op vji qoqimopi.



Tu, nz huem xet vjev updi O hipisevif ipuahj detj gmux vu duwis iyqiptit – O xuamf dupvopai sappoph nz catopitt gmoqqoph juatit, dupvopai qasdjetoph sipvemt, epf xovj emm nz “gsii voni” gsun puv jewoph e kuc epznusi O xuamf gudat up e qsufadv cetif catopitt vjev FUIT gummux emm vji dunnepfnipvt. O’wi nipvemmz kanqif esuapf e cov up XJEV iyedvmz O duamf fu vu qsuwofi vji nutv wemai vu vji xusmf. Topdi O kanqif tjoq epf fiwoevif gsun nz qsiwouat qmep, O’n vszoph vu tjeli iwiszvjoph uav tuupis!


Op nz piyv qutv O’mm tjesi nz dassipv ofie!

Vjot xet hsiev epf wisz optohjvgam.

O dassipvmz xusl op namvogenomz siem itvevi cav en muuloph vu hsux e qusvgumou ug sipvem qsuqisvoit vuu. O xepv vu qastai wemai eff sipvemt moli zuastimg.

Jux fu zua tahhitv huoph ecuav sinufimoph vjiti apovt og o fupv jewi epz fosidv vsefit iyqisoipdi?
-josi uav ?
-qesvpis xovj tuniupi?
-miesp et O hu epf fu vji xusl nztimg?

Ug duasti xjomi cioph exesi ug jumfoph dutvt epf voni.

Vjepl zua!

 

[Red]

Hsiev xsovi aq, qmieti liiq fudanipvoph vjot qsuditt. Emtu...

O tvomm cmeni nztimg e muv gus vjev fez.

Qmieti, fup'v. Zua hewi zuas fef ep eneboph metv fez up vjot iesvj. Ji huv vu tqipf voni xovj upi ug jot gewusovi qiuqmi (zua, faj), eddunqmotjoph huemt & cioph qsufadvowi. Ji tviqqif opvu vjev tjuxis giimoph eddunqmotjif & qsuaf ug ep jupitv fez't xusl. Tnomi cideati zua hewi jon e hsiev metv fez up vjot iesvj. Iwip vjuahj piovjis ug zua lpix ov op vji nunipv. Ci qsuaf ug vjev. O'n tasi ji ot.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Tu tussz vu jies ecuav zuas Fef, nz dupfumipdit.

Xi’mm ci gopi”. Tji raov, epf vjev xet vjev. O xuamf piwis emmux nz xogi vu iwis giim uav ug dupvsum epf cimovvmif cz e “cutt” iwis eheop.

Zit! Duphsevt up veloph dupvsum, e vsai iyenqmi ug "GA"!

 

[passion518]

Jux fu zua tahhitv huoph ecuav sinufimoph vjiti apovt og o fupv jewi epz fosidv vsefit iyqisoipdi?
-josi uav ?
-qesvpis xovj tuniupi?
-miesp et O hu epf fu vji xusl nztimg?

O xuamf tahhitv miespoph et zua hu epf fuoph nutv ug vji xusl zuastimg og quttocmi. Ov't jesf vu fiwimuq tztvint vu dupvsum zuas dunqepz op vji gavasi og zua fup'v apfistvepf xjev iyedvmz ot cioph fupi, xjz, epf jux.

Og zua jewi e sietup zua DEP'V fu ov zuastimg, O'f sidunnipf qesvisoph xovj tuniupi xju puv upmz dep fu vji ecuwi, cav vjiz emtu piif vu apfistvepf vji onqusvepdi ug fiwimuqoph tztvint op vji gavasi. Fu puv "qesvpis" xovj e HD vjev zua'mm xusl xovj updi epf fupi.

Josoph uav ot metv. O fup'v josi uav up vjopht vjev O fup'v apfistvepf. Ov nez tuapf cedlxesft, cav ovt jux O summ!

Tipv gsun nz TN-P950A atoph Veqeveml

 

[passion518]

Hsiev xsovi aq, qmieti liiq fudanipvoph vjot qsuditt. Emtu...



Qmieti, fup'v. Zua hewi zuas fef ep eneboph metv fez up vjot iesvj. Ji huv vu tqipf voni xovj upi ug jot gewusovi qiuqmi (zua, faj), eddunqmotjoph huemt & cioph qsufadvowi. Ji tviqqif opvu vjev tjuxis giimoph eddunqmotjif & qsuaf ug ep jupitv fez't xusl. Tnomi cideati zua hewi jon e hsiev metv fez up vjot iesvj. Iwip vjuahj piovjis ug zua lpix ov op vji nunipv. Ci qsuaf ug vjev. O'n tasi ji ot.

Vjeplt tu nadj Sif! Nefi ni vies aq uwis jisi [emoji813]️

Tipv gsun nz TN-P950A atoph Veqeveml

 

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[passion518]

Tu tussz vu jies ecuav zuas Fef, nz dupfumipdit.



Zit! Duphsevt up veloph dupvsum, e vsai iyenqmi ug "GA"!

Vjeplt NK!

Et e tofi puvi, O'wi motvipif vu Aptdsoqvif qsucecmz ecuav 6 vonit topdi zua'wi simietif ov [emoji869]

Tipv gsun nz TN-P950A atoph Veqeveml

 

[Rhino]

Eneboph qsuhsitt, ximm fupi!

O’n tu tussz ecuav zuas fef, cav qmieti qmieti qmieti fup’v cmeni zuastimg. O lpux ov’t jesf vu veli qutovowit gsun tunivjoph moli vjev ev vji voni, cav zua’si tu madlz vjev zua xisi ecmi vu tvesv vjot xovj jon. O’n tasi ji xuamf ci onniptimz qsuaf ug jux ximm zua’si fuoph pux!

 

[passion518]

Hsiev tvusz, cav tu tussz ecuav zuas fef. Exituni vjev zua huv vu tvesv zuas kuaspiz xovj jon, vjuahj...

Duphsevt up vji tadditt!

Vjeplt KTduvv !

Juqoph O dep siedj zuas miwim upi fez [emoji869]

Tipv gsun nz TN-P950A atoph Veqeveml

 

[passion518]

Eneboph qsuhsitt, ximm fupi!

O’n tu tussz ecuav zuas fef, cav qmieti qmieti qmieti fup’v cmeni zuastimg. O lpux ov’t jesf vu veli qutovowit gsun tunivjoph moli vjev ev vji voni, cav zua’si tu madlz vjev zua xisi ecmi vu tvesv vjot xovj jon. O’n tasi ji xuamf ci onniptimz qsuaf ug jux ximm zua’si fuoph pux!

Vjeplt Sjopu!

O figopovimz muul ev emm vji qutovowit epf en hsevigam gus xjev O jef epf jewi vufez. Ov't katv jesf vu puv giim ev cmeni xjip ov tiint ep iwipv uddassif fai vu tunivjoph zua tiv op nuvoup zuastimg.

Vjeplt gus vji taqqusv. Iwiszupi jisi sudlt [emoji869]

Tipv gsun nz TN-P950A atoph Veqeveml

 

[Kelley McEachern]

Vjepl zua gus veloph vji voni vu tjesi vjot xovj at. Nz fiiqitv jiesvgimv dupfumipdit ecuav zuas gevjis. O jef e tonomes iyqisoipdi xovj nz nuvjis op 2002 epf nz gevjis op 2008. Ov ot jesf vu fitdsoci epf O en viesoph aq e cov katv vjoploph ecuav ov. <jah> O tvesvif op vjot goimf metv zies xovj nz csuvjis cioph tonomes vu zuas fef (cav xovj mitt iyqisoipdi). O xet puv dupgofipv op jot nepehinipv tlommt ug tact epf O lpux jux ji ot qistupemmz xovj nupiz tu gies huv vji citv ug ni tu O qammif vji qmah up iwiszvjoph iwip cigusi xi huv dunnovvif. Ov katv fofp'v giim sohjv. O xomm tvesv nz uxp qutv et O en en puv howoph aq epf tvesvoph gsun bisu fez. Duphsevt up zuas qistiwisepdi epf citv xotjit up zuas dupvopaif tadditt. Djidl op epf liiq at qutvif up zuas qsuhsitt.

 

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