Re: Carlton Sheets - Posted by JohnBoy
Posted by JohnBoy on May 07, 1999 at 11:27:03:
“What do ya do with a guy like this? He cooks a mean Thanksgiving Dinner though :-)”
The first thing you do, is go out and buy him a nice apron with, “Man Of The House” printed across the front of it. Wrap it up and say here honey, I have a present for you. I’ll be back later, so have dinner ready at 6pm!
Then go out and look for that deal. When you come back home, don’t talk about what you were doing. At most, just say you were out window shopping looking at the nice homes in the area. Don’t go into any details or your just going to set yourself up for some negative feed back. You don’t need any negative input right now. Keep looking until you find that deal and meanwhile compliment your hubby on how good he looks in his “man of the house apron” and how GREAT his cooking is!
Once you get that first deal under contract wait until you close on it before discussing it with your hubby. Just keep it to yourself and enjoy his cooking until you close the deal and get that first check. Then make plans at a nice hotel for a weekend for you and hubby to go out and celebrate.
While your sitting at home having dinner with your hubby, say honey, I’m taking you out for a nice weekend tonight and I’m going to rock your world baby! Next you pull out that check and say, honey, and I’m paying for the whole thing with my own money! When he asks how you plan on doing that, you flash that check in front of him and say, WITH THIS!
Then you can tell him all about what you did. When he asks, where did this come from? You say, honey, it was like taking candy from a baby! There was nothing to it! I just stopped by this house that was for sale, wrote up a contract to buy it for ALL CASH, and then I sold it to someone else before I had to close on the sale for more money than I had to buy it for!
Meanwhile, you keep eating his great cooking while your telling him what you did by keeping a straight face and acting normal without showing how excited you are and as your sitting there stuffing his cooking down with your mouth full, you say, "mmmm, honey this is really good, I’m impressed with how well your dinners have been coming out. Get up like your in a hurry and say, after you get this cleaned up, hurry and get ready. I’ll be back within an hour to pick you up. I gotta go! Then a quick kiss goodbye like your leaving in a hurry.
When he says, where you going? Say, I gotta go look at another house to buy. Be back later! Then go to the bank and cash that check smiling from ear to ear!
Instead of trying to explain everything you did or what you were trying to do while you were looking for your first property, you managed to keep from hearing all the negative about looking a gift horse in the mouth from your husband. Don’t start out by you offering to tell your husband the details on how you managed to put all this together. Wait until he starts asking all the questions! He won’t be able to keep from asking because after seeing that check he’s going to want to know how in the heck you did that! Now you got him interested. Instead of you trying to get him to understand and support you with what your trying to do, you first prove to him that it can be done and you have already done it!
After you have your nice weekend together, ask hubby if he had a nice time. Then tell him thank you very much for your great support. When he looks at you with a dumb look on his face, looking like huh? What did I do? Say, you told me if I get a gift horse to look it in the mouth. Well, as I drove by that house I noticed it looked like a gift horse just sitting there looking right at me. So I remembered what you said about looking it in the mouth and that’s exactly what I did! I decided to look it in the mouth and go for that gift it had to offer me. The only thing was, I didn’t realize just how much of a gift that gift horse was going to give me for the little bit of effort I had to put into this by just talking to the seller for a little while.
Then say, I’ll see you later on tonight! When asks where you are going, you say, why, to go look for another gift horse silly, where do you think? Oh, by the way, what’s on the menu for dinner tonight honey?? I should be back around 6pm! Make it something special! Bye!
Now your husband is going to be interested!