Wow, how time will slip away when you’re not watching or paying attention.

It’s been a while since I posted anything and apologize for that. I started this blog to chronicle our real estate investing progression and recently I’ve written nothing. But really, you haven’t missed anything. Let me explain.

Our daughter is a collegiate athlete, she plays volleyball at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Up to the time when her ’season’ started we were very actively looking for an investment property to purchase. We had put in two offers that we didn’t get and were totally ready to find a house. And then, reality set in.

You see, this is Brittany’s senior year and the last year she will play college volleyball. Every year she’s been in college we have traveled to almost every game to watch her play. Last year, Texas State even won their conference title, it’s been a fun and exciting road. Now that this is her senior year, we are doing the same, traveling to as many games as we can possibly make. This entails driving to and from Houston to San Marcos (2-3/4 hours ONE-way) or wherever during the week. That means getting home late at night and getting up to go to work the next day. It also involves going somewhere EVERY weekend.

We have hesitated to make any offers because we are afraid we won’t be available to meet inspectors and contractors during the option period. We save all our vacation for this time of year, but it’s hard for our bosses to remember that we took no vacation up to this point. And to take off more time to take care of the necessary trips we’d need to make to a potential property wouldn’t look good in the eyes of our bosses (see why we want to become financially independent?).

So, in short, volleyball season not only has us very tired, but too busy to make any offers. When you can’t do everything you want to do, you focus on what’s more important, and our daughter won. Setting core values for yourself will help you make tough decisions when the time comes. As much as we wanted to move forward with the investing, Brent and I have ALWAYS put our family first and this was no different. There will be houses to buy when volleyball season is over, Brittany will never play college volleyball again.

So, I’ll continue to make posts, but please forgive if there are some lag times between them. We’ll be done around Thanksgiving and I’m hoping December will prove to be a good month to find some deals.

The Texas State Bobcat Volleyball Players all filled out fun questionnaires – here’s Brittany’s

Until next time.

Reba