Just a little story my Daddy told me. He said he came home from school one day and wanted my Granddaddy to whittle him out a flip staff. My Granddaddy said if you plow that mule to the end of the field and back I'll have you one whittled out. When he got back his flip staff was done. My Grandaddy said, Go ahead and finish the field and you can get your flip staff when you get home. Big mistake. My Grandaddy found out he could plow the mule so he had picked up an extra job. The older generation were smart that way. I miss em both.
Same scenario with me but I was born in the city did jail time got out to nothing everything was gone and to start back over again at 55 it's pretty hard.
Only family history I could pry out of my mother was how my grandparents and their brother/ sisters all lived in the same quadplex with their individual families so the whole quadplex was one extended family. But they all used each other's apt. like a commune....until it burnt down....
Now these men are sitting on hundreds of thousands/millions in land value. It was hardwork, but this is their 401k . Ain't much different from then til now, we just dont got the land anymore. This is why buffet, gates, and others buy and hold land.
