I protested my Austin property tax valuation appraisal back in May. Since then they've sent me 2 settlement requests.
Offer 1: $20,000 less
Me: No
Offer 2: $42,000 less
Me: No thanks
Them: Fine, we'll see you at hearing in a month.
I show up to virtual hearing today with
For clarification I meant movers for heavy furniture. Having friends for the packing / unpacking can be fun — but I’m not risking friends slipping a disc for my sectional couch.
I understand movers can be unaffordable. I’ve been there.
But if you *can* afford it, hire a pro 👍🏻
8 years ago I was an overworked and underpaid architect making $30,000 a year in NYC 😳. I'd never taken a business class or read a personal development book.
Cut to now; I own a multi-million dollar ecommerce business
@bestselfco
with a team of 10.
Here's my journey 🧵
Been enjoying doing a bunch of DIY home projects over the past month.
Last weeks project: Outdoor barrel sauna ✅
• dig trenches to install new wiring
• install 30 & 15 amp breaker
• install outlet (back of sauna)
• build sauna
• hook up heater
Next big project: Build
Choosing a business partner could be the 2nd most important relationship you ever choose (after who you marry.)
I just got out of a 5-year partnership that had become toxic.
Here's where I went wrong.
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
@emilykmay
Did the same thing when getting rid of a freezer recently, initially put it up for free but got 60 messages in 5 mins so I changed it to $50 to not deal with the hassle. Was gone in 3 hours.
Over the last few years, I’ve been reading and studying what it takes to build a successful & happy relationship
(Because I never want to get divorced again 💔)
Here’s where I went wrong before & the 7 things I'm doing now:
🧵
I outsourced a bunch of my life to a VA in the Philippines
I’ve been working with remote assistants for 10+ years to help me leverage my time
so I made a guide to help you start working with your own VA
RT + comment “VA” to get the guide in your dm’s (must be following for DM)
2012: I moved to NYC from Ireland with only $783 to my name to start my 30k per year architecture job.
I knew less than🖐🏻 people in a city of 8 million.
2022: I've done over 40M in sales in my own businesses & am living my dreams.
6 small things I did to change my life 👇🏻
Meet Alejandro.
He embezzled more than $230k from my company BestSelf Co.
Here are 3 things you can learn from my experience:
1. Realize you’re not invincible
2. Trust but verify your team
3. Stay on your toes
@dranthonygustin
I’m into community. We have neighbors we love that help us with a bunch — from appliance fixing to flushing our water system. We share holidays and meals together often.
But I don’t need them to move my furniture for pizza and beer.
Here's a protest letter template you can use:
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to protest the recent appraisal of my property located at [Property Address]. The current appraised value of [$Appraised Value] is significantly higher than the actual market value of the
I’ve outsourced my life to a VA in the Philippines
I’ve been working with remote assistants for 10 years to help me leverage my time and have learned a TON.
These are the 8 top tools we use to make it work:
I never liked having living room furniture facing a black box.
I just got this Samsung TV as it looks like art when it’s off. You can choose the art, type, frame, matte type - it’s incredible.
It’s also crazy thin 😮
P.s. this is not a stock image 😍
A year of living in our first 🏡 in Austin
Looking at the living room and feeling proud of everything I’ve been able to build and create since moving to the 🇺🇸 in 2012 that’s led to this.
This space is something I wouldn’t even have imagined I’d live in 🥰
P.S 🐶 like it too
One of my favorite weird ways to get rich:
"Hang around the hoop"
Works like this:
1- sell your business to strategic/PE
2- wait for them to screw it up
3- buy it back for cheap when they give up
I've seen it often. (Like Barstool Sports last year.)
Revamp your home workspace environment like a pro 🔥
Here's some tips to transform your workspace using Feng Shui and design thinking (from an ex-architect) 👇🏻
Hiring a photographer to shoot an airbnb in Austin. His rate is $200 per RE property
"Can't do Monday, I'm fully booked at 8 properties already"
$1600 a day.
$8000 per 5-day workweek.
Impressive.
#sidehustle
Got an ad for
@justegg
on IG.
Slick branding and website.
However it’s not just egg at all, but a bunch of chemicals like canola oil.
Should be considered false advertising imo. 💀💀💀
My freedom vehicle was a
@Shopify
store that I built in 2012 to escape my day job.
When
@bestselfco
was starting in 2015 I knew Shopify was the only option.
So yeah, you could say I was excited seeing a billboard last night.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
One of the biggest lifehacks for business owners?
Credit card points. You can stack MILLIONS a year *tax-free* and never pay for first class travel again.
If you're not doing this, you're missing out. Here's why 👇🏻
This summer I got to experience a little of my “rich life”. A vacation experiment of sorts that included my parents, in-laws and friends.
Curious how it went? 🤔
First if you don’t know about this “rich life” idea it’s from
@ramit
and is the idea of spending lavishly on areas
RIP to Sid Parr
Sid was my dog CJ's first (and only) boyfriend. They made an unlikely but cute couple.
Send your good vibes to
@thesamparr
and
@SaraSodineParr
💔
In July
@SpeculatorArt
told me to mint
@crypto_raiders
so I picked up 2.
When project launched in August w/ $RAIDER I staked 20k worth at $0.52ish & locked it. Knew nothing, just aped to support a friend.
That 20k is now worth 300k.
And project just starting 🚀. Thanks fren 😘
@sourpatchlyds
Great quote. Fortunately I carry out and accept other favors that don’t involve carrying heavy furniture so feeling good about friendships 👍🏻
Why don't they teach us this stuff at school?
Why are we memorizing facts and useless knowledge (that we can google) over these simple but important life skills? We should be learning:
💵Financial intelligence
💪🏻Habits
🕓Time management
🧠Critical thinking & decision making
Most undervalued DeFi project (IMO) in $CVX
Thru bribes you're earning 50% APR in $LUNA $SPELL $FRAX $ALCX $CVX and maintaining token upside.
I wrote an in-depth post about how it all works here:
@SpeculatorArt
good thing you brought this up. I need some work done in my new house — what time can you be here?
So glad I have a friend like you to rely on 🥰
What I learned about business during a 6-Hour game of Monopoly with
@TheSharkDaymond
🤯
(And why Daymond plays this game with entrepreneurs *before* investing)
🧵
I've lost 40lbs in the last 10.5 months.
What worked for me:
• Tracking food on
@cronometer
• High-protein diet (1gm per lb of protein)
• Daily hydration (.8 oz of water per lb)
• 7 hours+ quality sleep
• Walking 10k+ steps p/ day
• Strength training 4x p/ wk
@codewizardtech
Friends can come over with snacks and hang out while unpacking. (Did this yesterday actually).
Moving heavy furniture tho? No thanks, movers ftw
Don’t sleep on
@fiverr
for being scrappy and getting random tasks handled by experts. Been using it the last 6 weeks and results have been 🔥
For example, needed Shopify site sped up. Got quoted 5k by a developer. Decided to try a well reviewed guy on Fiverr.
Results:
• Speed
It’s my wife’s birthday today 🥳
Her generosity, kindness and ability to handle whatever comes up impresses me daily. Lucky to have her as a partner and co-parent 🥰
Cheers to her 🥂
Women, let's all learn some lessons from Taylor Swift because I bet we could change the world.
Thanks
@taylorswift13
for being public with your challenges so we could learn from your actions.
#ship30for30
My 2020 Goals:
📈 Grow 20%+ YOY Revenue
💪🏻Lose 8lbs of Body Fat
✍🏻 Create 20 Quality Pieces of Content [Blog/Video]
🗣 6 Speaking Gigs
🚀 Launch 1 solo project / product
👰🏻 Get married
✈️ Take 2 vacations
📖 Read 38 books (3 per month)
👫 Organize 18 fun events w/ Friends
Your values aren't real until they cost you something.
Some thoughts on values and why these mysterious things are so important in our lives.
P.S. They can also be inconvenient AF.
I was shocked that the plane that lost a window had no one sitting by it.
I just learned the person that was in that seat missed their flight.
That’s some final destination stuff.
5. Your business isn't pie, and 'fair' doesn't mean equal. Equity should be decided by what each of you bringing to the table in terms of:
💰 Money
🎯 Skills
👥 Network
💡 Original idea
⏳ Experience
💪🏻 Sweat equity
Officially a first time homeowner! 🎉
Closed yesterday, over 2 months behind schedule and I learned that dealing with mortgage stuff as an entrepreneur is the biggest pain! 🤯
But yay to the fun part of being able to invest in somewhere for the long-term!