We sold our home for over $1M!!!

We sold our San Diego home and Moved to Houston! 

I know what most of you are thinking…. Trust me, I’ve gotten the questions. 

Why would you leave San Diego? It’s so beautiful. Why did you sell your home? Why Houston? Why Texas? Why did Sean quit his job? Why did you quit skincare/ being a real estate agent? 

You’re getting the idea, right? 

I’m constantly inundated with many questions / concerns from family, friends, acquaintances, and sometimes even people I don’t know. 

Well, here’s my why. How I’ve felt during the process. What made us make the decision to do what we’re doing and how I feel now.

I’ve learned the importance from my mother if you want a successful business, you have to take risks, work your ass off (which includes long hours), and ultimately do whatever it takes. 

The best quote to describe how I live my life is…

“Approach every situation with a whatever-it-takes mindset.”  

Meaning doing whatever it takes for you to achieve your goals. Keeping this mindset has helped me keep pushing through hard times, times when I sometimes lack motivation to get up and go, maybe even times when I didn’t want to move or got emotional about selling this home.

Sean & I have an end goal, a plan for our life and in order to get to that goal we had to go all in. What we were doing and the part-time work we were putting into our business wasn’t getting us to our goal. 

We have learned, studied, and listened as much as we could about real estate investing. We were at a point where it was either do it and go all in or we weren’t going to do it at all. 

Now, the tricky part was that we had invested all of our own money into this San Diego home. 

We had about $150,000 from a cash out refi we did on the home and we did this to start buying single family homes and renting those out. 

However, we learned quickly that the only way we were going to be able to scale our business and grow to where we wanted was to own many doors. 

We did our research on the top real estate markets in the country…, this is why we moved to  HOUSTON! It’s one of the top 5 real estate markets! 

Then I asked Sean…, Now this is the crazy part to most of you.

Wait for it…!

What do you think about resigning from your job as a police officer and selling our home in San Diego? This way we can invest all of our money into our business and shop multi-family real estate full-time. 

We knew the market was great where our home was located and if we wanted to do it, the time was now. The house across the street from us sold for $736,000. The same amount we purchased our home for…. and it was a townhome!! 

The next best thing we did was hiring Gabe Mendez to be our listing agent. He truly helped us that much more. Gabe was able to help us sell our home for over $1M! (Thanks Gabe!)

Now, even though I made the suggestion to Sean to do all of these things and really it was my idea to sell the home. 

I still struggled back and forth with my emotions because Sean and I literally picked everything that went into this house. We picked all the flooring, countertops, backsplashes, waterfall shower, you name it we picked it. 

We visited the home EVERY WEEKEND as it was being built and I mean EVERY WEEKEND. We were so excited. 

And let's be honest a lot of us have been raised to or watched our parents work a job, buy a house, start a family, save money, get promotions. 

Then when we make more money, we increase our expenses (i.e. buy a new car, purchase more furniture for the house, more decorations, buy grills, then comes that boats, campers, jet skis, more makeup lol.. that’s me ;)  or more junk. Some of the stuff we don’t even use or we forget about it. 

A lot of this stuff is just more STUFF that we have to take care of and work on. We can never just lay by the pool and read a book/go the beach with our family and friends. 

If you think about it, it's really an endless cycle and you just keep paying for more things, have more credit card debt, and never really get to just relax and enjoy yourself. 

This was my motivation, these are things I thought about when I ever got sad about selling our home. 

I know that by selling our home we’ve taken MASSIVE ACTION to better our lives for the future.

It’s scary taking risks, but what scared me more was not being able to live our lives the way we want to.

I didn’t want to celebrate Christmas without Sean anymore because his job required him to be there. Or even the thought that when we have children he couldn’t be there because of work. 

The other thing that motivates me… I don’t know if any of you have ever had a sick family member and you’re unable to help or can’t take of work, but I have. 

I want to be in a position to always be able to help my loved ones. I want to help others. 

I want to show others that they too can have their own business. They too can achieve the financial freedom that real estate brings.

Best,

Sarah 

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