Some of the best local businesses in America are operated by immigrant families. The unsung heroes? Their children. They show up at landlord meetings to translate starting in their early teens. They help their parents build websites, create a social media presence, and work out vendor disputes. Their parents wanted nothing more than for them to grow up with more opportunity than they had, and those kids often balance pressure of doing well in school and going to college with helping their parents out as much as possible. I’ve been lucky to meet many of you over the years. You’re becoming business leaders, doctors and lawyers. Your parents sacrificed a lot for you to succeed, but you sacrificed a lot for them as well. You may not think anyone notices all you do in the background. But many do. You’re taking your families to new heights, and inspiring the rest of us in the process. Here’s to you ❤️
StripMallGuy
Real Estate
215k+ on Twitter. Candidly sharing 20 years of real estate knowledge. As featured in The Real Deal. DM me strip deals 🙏
About us
220k+ on Twitter. Feel free to DM me there! Principal ACTIVELY buying strip malls all-cash in all markets. Neighborhood strip center fund GP Candidly sharing 20 years of real estate knowledge while trying not to be boring. On a mission to uncover the incredible value of joining the real estate conversation on twitter - some of my friends and I are having a blast over there! Opinions, not advice.
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Type
- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Strip Centers, Real Estate, and Twitter
Employees at StripMallGuy
Updates
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The real estate community is abuzz as related to potential tax policy changes re: 1031 exchange. Many folks want it eliminated, and there are few things the real estate world is more united about. My bottom line take: most people will stop selling, transaction volume will slow to a halt, and prices will go way up.
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I don’t think enough brokers are familiar with what Capital Markets Brokers do, or that they even exist. There are not very many of them in the industry, relatively speaking, and it’s a niche within a niche. You’re mostly representing very large institutions and usually helping them buy and sell large properties. Different set of skills and very different training.
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There are great things about growing up in a community that encourages success and setting high career expectations for yourself. But there’s another side to it that’s not talked about much, and should be. For those that don’t live up to all those expectations, then what? I personally know of several instances where folks in their 30s and 40s, people who have done well by many standards, are dealing with severe mental health issues because they feel they failed themselves and the people around them. Often this is all happening in secret, but often not. Sorry to be a bit graphic, but this is a really important message: There were so many teen suicides on the train tracks in Palo Alto, CA (home of some of the most competitive high schools in America), that Caltrain recently decided to stop announcing them. Many of my peers are on social media to share our career journeys, and in hopes our experiences help others looking to follow our paths. But it’s also important to convey that success in life isn’t defined by wealth or career. It’s up to you how you define success. Not your peers, family, or the community around you. Success can be finding a hobby you love, a job that pays the bills, and a great marriage. Success can be traveling in your 20s and getting by on the money you saved from that high school job. Success can be a job you love that doesn’t pay much, but gives you flexibility to do other things. The point is, it’s up to you. It has nothing to do with what you hear it means, or what someone tells you it means. We need to teach our kids early on that school isn’t everything. Yes, give them the tools to succeed, encourage them, but don’t cause them to define how they see themselves based on their grades. Parents pushing their kids to become millionaires need to look in the mirror. Are you doing it for them, or because it’s what you want for them? The definition of success is as unique as we are as individuals. There is no one-size-fits-all. Feeding people a narrative of what success should look like to them does no good. In fact, it’s dangerous. Give them a stable home, encourage them, be there for them, let them define success as they choose, and watch them blossom like you never imagined, in ways you never expected. Those artificial expectations are far beyond dangerous.