Once again I lose focus and fail to write any posts. It’s mainly because I don’t get my morning routine started when I should and then everything goes out of whack for the remainder of the day. Here I am at 5:45AM at my desk where I should be.

An interesting thing happened since I last posted, my employer gave notice of this year’s merit increase. I mistakenly thought with 10% inflation over the last year, we would get some sizable raises so our spending power wouldn’t erode so much. Nope. 3%. I’ll never get that money back. I voiced my disappointment with my boss and his boss. Boy did I cause some stammering. Every point I made was spot-on and they couldn’t tell me I was wrong about anything. All the sacrifices that have been made by employees over the years when the company needed it were repaid with a paltry raise. I thought about it over the weekend and it fired me up even more. In my rage and disappointment, I was sure I was going to apply to a different shop to make more money. After that decision stewed for a while, I said to myself, “Use the lack of appreciation shown by my employer to stoke a fire to reach a goal of quitting work within a year instead of three”. Sounds like a good goal.

I am meeting the architect at our duplex this evening to make some measurements so she can get started with drawings. She’ll need both the approved record of Survey and a topographical survey to complete the job. I didn’t hear from the surveyor doing the property line survey. I didn’t know the surveys have to be approved by the city, yay.

I’ve been watching many videos about multifamily investing on Biggerpockets. I really want to get started investing. I’m not sure if I should focus on the adding of units to the duplex or do both simultaneously. I’ll have to ask a lender.