San Diego Income Property Owners — Ready To Play? Put Me In Coach!

Posted @ 9:27 pm - Filed under Real Estate Investing, Purposeful Planning, Weekend Thoughts, San Diego Property Owners, Real Estate Markets, Palo Alto

The other day I was having a great conversation with one of my clients who happens to share my passion for baseball. They’d not known about my ‘baseball life’ as a former umpire. I’d worked my way up as far as one could go, umpiring every level of NCAA (college) ball, up to Division I.

Anywho, we got to tradin’ baseball stories, as her brother had played college ball in the midwest. Can’t remember the college for which he played, but it turns out they played in San Diego all three years he was there. It’s possible I umpired him. Go figure.

The present real estate market in San Diego, (Palo Alto too) and those who own income properties here, remind me of what a very experienced head coach once told me. We’d been going over a complicated, and controversial call the week before. He was sure my line of sight had been blocked, getting it wrong, while I knew for a fact my line of sight was unimpeded and I gotten it right. That’s baseball in a nutshell.

I miss it like breathing, but too many conflicts with my business schedule finally forced an early retirement. Also, I got tired of being afraid of my own assistants, who would look at me the morning after weekday afternoon games with death stares you never wanna experience.

During our discussion the coach made a comment I’ve always remembered. He said there were two kinds of players — those who always wanted to be ‘in the game’ no matter the circumstances — and those who were content to ride the bench when the pressure was on. He said the difference between the two was simple. Those who were always buggin’ him to put them in the game, weren’t afraid of failing. The others were petrified of even the thought of failing, much less when it really might hurt the team. Their attitude resulted in a sort of paralysis by analysis. More simply put, they never experienced success ‘cuz they were so fearful of failure.

He continued, saying those always wanting to be in there were the ones who did better ‘after baseball’. They saw opportunity, surveyed the risks, and went for success. Did they practice hundreds of hours, listen to coaches, and learn from watching? You bet. Then they decided to stop living on the fence and join in the fray.

That’s exactly what real estate investors owning San Diego income property should be doing now. Get back into the fray, and do it by setting up a solid, well thought out Purposeful Plan — which will of course, include getting their equity into a growth region out of California.

So make use of the Contact BawldGuy link and say, “Put me in Coach, I’m ready to play.”

The video has some cool footage of some real old school ballplayers. Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Joltin’ Joe, Ted Williams, and many more. Good stuff. The song? Anyone with kids in Little League have already heard it a million times.

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