# Real Estate and Interest - Introduction - Natalie Yerushalmi - Post 1 My name is Natalie Yerushalmi…
# Real Estate and Interest - Introduction - Natalie Yerushalmi - Post 1
My name is Natalie Yerushalmi in a relationship + two twin sons, living in the beautiful and green Givat Ada.
Admittedly, when my father approached me and asked me to write, on the one hand I was flattered and on the other hand I was apprehensive, I'm just a pretty fresh realist, what do I have to innovate and tell all the sharks swimming here in the group?
but…. During the following posts you will get to know me a little more and you will find that I am the kind of person who says yes to every opportunity, then says to myself what did you think of yourself, how will you do it? Then answer to myself… as you have managed to do so far, come on do not whine… to work (yes I have this kind of weird talk to myself).
For most of my adult life, I have worked in the nursing field, starting as a social worker and reaching the position of CEO of a large corporation for foreign nursing workers, a position I still serve today.
I have always loved my job and I still love, mostly love working with people.
Over the last few years I have repeatedly asked myself what next? Do I know / can do anything else? (The answer was, probably not…).
A few years ago I got divorced and then another matter came in, I checked my pension and found that despite the not bad conditions at all, which I get every month as a hired CEO,
I will have no way of maintaining the standard of living I am used to when I retire and certainly not helping my children if they have to.
About two years after the divorce we sold the condominium and then faced a dilemma, whether to buy a house and take out a mortgage like everyone else or whether this was my chance to leverage the money and invest in real estate.
I started looking for properties in Israel at cheap prices / candidates for TMA / evacuation of construction and the like, I thought of buying such a property and enjoying its return as additional income.
Two things happened during this time, one - I found that the yields on these properties are very low (of course there is an option to increase value, etc. and still I did not understand anything in real estate…) and also that to buy such a property without a mortgage I will have to invest all the money in one property. Generate me a small income but will not lead to change.
The second thing that happened was that Facebook and Google started targeting me with real estate projects as well as real estate courses.
I noticed that during my search I might not have found what I was looking for but I definitely enjoyed the search and then I said why not actually, maybe really a real estate course.
Caught the eye of Robert Shemin's course (Project X) who teaches real estate in the United States.
I went to a conference, fell in love (both with Robert full of energy and sense of humor and also with what he presented) and signed up for the course.
Throughout my studies I was in high seriousness, felt just like falling in love, I barely ate, I barely slept I was just in a frenzy about it.
The course was enriching and instructive and put me in the right mindset and in addition I got to know an amazing community of people.
In the course we were asked to choose an area to work in and a field to focus on and I decided to enter the field of flips in the area I chose, Kansas City.
So this is how I started, today two years later, I would love to share with you the process I went through and my insights along the way.
Warning to all the sharks and people who are only interested in numbers and facts, these are going to be posts that incorporate words like intuition, spirituality, mindset and more like that you know… ????
In the following posts I will write about flips, new construction, Facebook / social networks, studies, work and family, failures and successes, challenges and more.
We had a great week and see you tomorrow in the next post.
My name is Natalie Yerushalmi in a relationship + two twin sons, I live in the beautiful and green Givat Ada.
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