<div class="bbWrapper"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The name is just used here...other screen names have a variation which includes "<i>Taipan"</i> as a component of the name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> <b><i>RE</i></b> <b>=</b> Real Estate -- I firmly believe that real estate (and more specifically, apartment buildings) is a genuine fast lane to sustainable wealth. Clearly, it is by no means the only route to take, but it definitely appears from this vantage point to be one of the easiest, surest and fastest ways out of the rat race and to the promised land....plus if done right, you get to help others improve their lives by giving them a safer, nicer and better place to live in that they can be proud to call their home...and what's not incredibly cool about being able to do that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> <b><i>Taipan</i></b> = as below</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As I have discussed in a couple of my other posts, a prior business involved some high liability exposure business operations. That business was international trading and logistics. Had offices domestically as well as offshore in Hong Kong. Prior to my first trip to HK, the staff there sent me James Clavell's <i>Noble House</i> as a "primer" on modern HK. Upon my return, the faxes I would receive from the HK office always referred to me as Taipan. For those who are not familiar, the term Taipan, or more properly "Tai-pan," is a Cantonese word which loosely translates into <i>a foreigner who is the chief executive of a corporation that does business in China and a wealthy leader or tycoon</i>. After seeing it on the faxes, my group here in the US picked up on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The plan is for Chewsie and myself to create a business which is involved in, among other things, creating strategic alliances for the short term acquisition, improvement, operation and sale of apartment buildings where qualified 3rd party companies handle the actual day-to-day management of the properties. This leaves HQ to manage the managers and the time focus on looking for the next project and/or opportunity (Read: Rinse-Repeat, Rinse-Repeat). This operation is well into the initial stage now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hence the name, <i>RE Taipan</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Even though doing business in Hong Kong or China is not on the radar screen at present, it similarly was not when the trading and logistics business was begun either. But by being confident enough to believe in myself and my decisions, the HK operation provided a great adventure and proved to be quite profitable for the business. From that experience, I've learned not to automatically exclude anything from the realm of possibilities or opportunity. Besides --- I've promised someone that I'd take him to Hong Kong and to the Great Wall....and letting the little guy down is simply not an option.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I've used "Taipan" in just about every iteration of online names I've created since my first one for, like Bilgefisher (albeit from a different centric), the "Tai-pan" reference serves as a constant motivator and reminder to me of where I have been and just what I am capable of doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Thank you.</span> :smxF:</div>
