Moved out at 16?

Decided not to use protection?

Taking someone back who broke up you?

Dated your parent's best friend?

6/18/2012 12:25:59 AM

joined t-dub.... Never again...

6/18/2012 12:44:37 AM

moved out at 16, dated my parent's best friend and broke up after not using protection

6/18/2012 2:32:18 AM

I figured out the key to winning any argument is by knowing the answer to more whys than the other person.

6/18/2012 2:37:42 AM

Deciding, despite not knowing many people there and only barely knowing the host, to go to saps' party.

6/18/2012 7:33:38 AM

Crown Royal ruined my life for about 6 months at one point.

6/18/2012 7:35:59 AM

that time i stabbed a hooker

6/18/2012 7:36:23 AM

Not signing my intention to return notice at the AFA, thinking maybe NCSU ROTC was going to work out better.... oops.

6/18/2012 7:43:18 AM

I took bath salts and ate part of some dude's face. Got some serious negative publicity over that. Never again!

6/18/2012 7:50:59 AM

Broke up with my ex-fiance.

Posted from Florence, Italy in a flat I'm sharing for the week with my very awesome wife that I met a month after I called it off with ex.

6/18/2012 9:50:35 AM

Moved in with zorthage and ambrosia1231

6/18/2012 9:52:00 AM

All of them


Drinking and driving had the longest chain of events though.

6/18/2012 9:53:23 AM

packing TP into an automatic hand dryer in 7th grade and taping over the sensor.

6/18/2012 9:55:14 AM

^lol, wut?

6/18/2012 9:56:45 AM

Getting a dog. As soon as we buy a house I'm going to start fostering for a rescue.

6/18/2012 9:57:16 AM

Enlisting

6/18/2012 10:04:29 AM

Taking the bullets out of that gun.

6/18/2012 10:07:03 AM

Uh, every decision.

6/18/2012 10:08:11 AM

Getting back together with my GF from HS after we split at one point early in college. 7 years later we've been very happily married for 2 years and I can't imagine being with someone else.

6/18/2012 10:09:59 AM

Taking up my friend's offer to go to a Theta Tau party

Moving to Alabama

6/18/2012 10:16:50 AM

Choosing State over Carolina for undergrad. Wouldn't have the husband, career, or friends I have now if I had gone to UNC.

6/18/2012 10:18:25 AM

When I first got involved with real estate I was a dead broke auto mechanic trying to make enough money to make ends meet. There was no such thing as disposable income around my house. It was all disposed of before I got it. Thirty five years old, bankrupt and I didn’t have a clue what I wanted to be when I grew up; but I knew it wasn’t fixing cars in the hot Florida sun. The year was 2008. I saw an ad that said something like “Come learn how to buy real estate with no money or credit.” That appealed to me because I had no money or credit and I liked the rich idea. So, I attended the free seminar. The instructor got us all excited about real estate and showed us how people were buying real estate with no money down. Then he said, “if you pay $450 and attend our two day training this weekend, we’ll show you all the secrets”. I wanted in but I had a big problem, actually 450 of them. But something compelled me to find a way to get the money and that’s what I did. I borrowed it from two friends and showed up for the seminar. That decision changed my life forever, my family’s life and their family’s lives for generations to come, not to mention hundreds of thousands of my students and their descendants into the millions. That one small split second decision that could have gone either way made me millions of dollars since and spawned countless numbers of millionaires all over North America and other countries I can’t even pronounce. In fact, most of the stuff taught in that seminar was over my head. I was clueless and could barely spell real estate. But I picked up one idea I felt I could do and within three weeks I made my first $3,000 from real estate using none of my money or credit, which I didn’t have. I immediately called my boss and said, “I’m upping my income… up yours!” The biggest thing that seminar did for me was get me involved in real estate and committed to changing my lifestyle. For years I’d been looking for something but didn’t know what it was. When I got my hands on that three grand it became crystal clear real estate was my future. Fast-forward two years, I had amassed 276 units, some single family, some apartments, not including some I sold along the way to live. I was a millionaire… on paper. I had over $1,000,000 in equity two years after starting with no money or credit. Reality Arrives! I sat down one Friday evening to pay my bills and realized my outgo was bigger than my income and my upkeep was becoming my downfall. All I had accomplished was create a big, ugly mess. I’d spent two years buying the wrong properties the wrong way in the wrong areas for the wrong reasons. I built my empire on a house of cards, not a solid foundation. You see, I really didn’t understand the real estate business. I just bought properties because I could, without money or credit. I bought all the crap savvy investors wouldn’t touch. They’d already been to the school I was about to graduate from… The School of Hard Knocks. All my low income properties in war zone areas with brainless tenants were sucking me dry, financially and mentally. My days were spent solving their petty problems and listening to all the worthless excuses why they couldn’t pay rent. I spent the next five years selling off my junk for dimes on the dollar. It took me seven years into the business to really understand it and get my life back. Oh, I made a good living during that time. Several times my job income. But I sure wish I’d known me back then and had the system then that my students have now. On second thought it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. I wouldn’t have listened. I’m a man, men don’t follow instructions. It’s testosterone. It’s not our fault. We can’t help it. After about seven years into the business and over 400 houses later I built an easy system to turn real estate into cash now, cash monthly and cash later. I made it a real business anyone could do from home and make obscene amounts of money. That’s about the time I started teaching what I had learned. Somewhere along the line someone called me “The World’s Leading Expert at Quick Turning Houses” and the name stuck. Now fast forward a few more years of teaching what I know while simultaneously doing what I teach and I will admit I’m a weird dude. I’ve bought and sold nearly 2,000 houses and still do. Over the years I’ve created a mountain of home study products, written millions of words in print, shared the platform with past presidents, movie stars, actors, politicians, sports heroes, business leaders, super wealthy from all professions and some of the best speakers in the world. I’ve spoken to audiences as small as 20 and as large as 20,000 in hotel meeting rooms and coliseums all across North America. I’ve gazed in amazement and sheer joy as so many thousands of my students and new friends have pulled themselves out of financial mediocrity, or downright poverty, and made themselves financially independent millionaires and some multi-millionaires from the words that left my lips and the time we spent together. So many new millionaires have now become leaders and are reaching a helping hand down to those in need and helping them climb the ladder to success. My legacy has spread like a swarm of locusts and thousands will be affected, (maybe millions now), by the positive impact I made with a few carefully chosen words that left my lips or got put in print at a time when students were ready to receive them and convert to action. New generations will profit directly or indirectly because they attended one of my seminars then used the information and passed it on. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Now much of my time is spent in front of good people who are serious about getting rich and will do what it takes to become one of the 3% who can really say and prove they have achieved true wealth. People constantly ask me why I continue to teach. It’s hard for them to understand why a guy with my experience would take the time to work with those who don’t have it. My answer is simple really. First, make no mistakes about it, I get paid well for teaching. It’s not a mercy mission and we’re not a non-profit organization. Second, I have to do something with my time. Golf, fishing and diving get old quick. Making millionaires never gets old and I can’t think of anything I’d rather do in my life. It’s fun to be me and I love doing it. Besides, I’ve been married for over 46 years to one woman. Her name is Beverly and between the honey-do’s and the nine grandchildren (three live on our estate) it’s nice to get away once in a while. Beverly says even though we’ve been married 46 years, if you take out my travel time… it’s closer to three. Truthfully, I’m just a simple auto mechanic with a redneck background who barely got out of high school. I’d rather have a good hamburger than a steak. I hate wine and all other alcohol beverages. I smoke cigars, listen to country music and jazz and go to the movies a lot. We have horses, cats, a dog and chickens and we grow stuff in our own garden and yes, I even have my very own tractor, which I use to plow that garden. So, there you have it, the real me.

6/18/2012 10:18:36 AM

I took the red pill.

6/18/2012 10:20:28 AM

Left Silas with ambrosia1231 for less than 2 hours. And thus began the love affair with Elise.

6/18/2012 10:21:54 AM

gunzz makes me laff

6/18/2012 10:23:35 AM

2^one of the many fantastic positive changes in my life after moving in with z and x

[Edited on June 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM. Reason : ']

6/18/2012 10:24:09 AM

I'm not sure if this counts, as it wasn't my decision, but for me it was when my parents moved the family from New Jersey to North Carolina.

If it's just going on my decision, then it would be when I broke up with my long term girlfriend back in 2004. Best I can tell my life would have been vastly different if I had stayed with her. We would probably be married, I never would have lived in NYC, etc etc...

6/18/2012 10:32:12 AM

the first time i ate a breakfast taco/burrito.

i just can't quit you, even though i know you've made me horribly fat.

6/18/2012 10:37:13 AM

Going to the career fair on campus to say hi to my friend, ended up getting recruited by Caterpillar & moved 4 times in the first 2 years.

Still with the company 6.5 years later!

6/18/2012 11:37:06 AM

rock climbing

moving to charlotte

6/18/2012 12:24:00 PM

^meeting DB19

6/18/2012 12:26:25 PM

I should've signed the paper to join the Army when I was 19.

6/18/2012 12:28:13 PM

That risky txt message I sent while drunk and hugging a toilet.

6/18/2012 1:03:41 PM

Moving from Raleigh to Houston

6/18/2012 1:14:02 PM

agreeing to meet my friend at the mall one night and getting attacked by Libyan terrorists

6/18/2012 1:17:28 PM

going to the Navy recruiter's office with my best friend

6/18/2012 1:17:29 PM

paging Catch 22

6/18/2012 2:26:23 PM

falling drunk into the fountain at Butter.

6/18/2012 9:24:30 PM

Butterfly effect.

All of them, with any one of which you made differently leading to a different place (aside from the dumb pizza or steak type decisions).

6/18/2012 9:28:30 PM

You know you're doing something right when you start quoting Ashton Kutcher.



Not going to school in the Northeast. Twoulda sucked.

[Edited on June 18, 2012 at 9:33 PM. Reason : x]

6/18/2012 9:33:26 PM

My years of stunting, racing, running from police on motorcycles, heavy partying, and general
Hooliganism.

Those were the days. Happy I made it out alive.

6/18/2012 9:35:01 PM

also, mushrooms

Quote :

"^meeting DB19"

well duh. do i need to state the obvious?

6/18/2012 9:40:14 PM

Deciding to date Abe.

6/18/2012 9:47:14 PM

^^

6/18/2012 9:47:40 PM

6/9/09, decided to take the "long" way home from the lake on my motorcycle and got my shit rocked by an old lady in a jaguar..

6/18/2012 10:02:06 PM

Going to NC State
Going to beerfest with Peter
Moving to Locust

6/18/2012 10:12:46 PM

broke my collar bone in 9th grade in a 4 wheeler accident...

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:19 AM. Reason : that's more of an event, but caused me to make a decision]

6/19/2012 12:18:51 AM

I can't pick one, so I'll do three:

quitting grad school (one of the best decisions I ever made. I think.)

breaking up with my boyfriend of several years

that one thing that got me in trouble that one time...

6/19/2012 1:14:28 AM

Talking to a social worker

Adopting a second degree

Totaling my car, and then another one.

6/19/2012 1:30:37 AM

Moving to NC

6/19/2012 2:08:57 AM