Realty411 Magazine Featuring Lori Greymont | Page 27

Linda: Sounds like your
mom was special?
Lori: As you may know,
my mom recently passed
from her battle with
cancer. I had 18 months
of time with her because I
had set up my business as
a business. What I mean
by that is my business
was systems and people
based, not me based. I
was able to step out for
days or weeks at a time
and things would still be
happening. Essentially, it
allowed me to spend this
time with her, which was
not only a gift for me, it
was my give back to her for what she has
given me. She is my hero. My mom was
a serial entrepreneur. As a kid, I never
really paid attention to all that she was
doing but now I reflect on it in awe and
gratitude for the lessons I learned first-
a Christmas with gifts under the tree. So,
she talked to the owner of a grocery store
and secured the ability to sell Christmas
trees at the store that year. In September,
we went out to the farm and marked the
trees we wanted. Then, the day after
nine yards. After school
each day my brother,
sister and I would go to
our tree lot and setup our
homework on the table,
cook hot chocolate on the
stove, and sell trees when
someone knocked. There
were no video games or
TV’s to entertain us. We
worked. She told us we
could have Christmas on
Christmas like everyone
else or if we wanted to
wait until a couple days
after Christmas, she could
get us a lot more because
of the clearance sales.
So, we sold trees until
Christmas Eve and had our Christmas a
few days later. In this simple example,
she was teaching us to live for what is
right for us, not to conform to the normal
status quo. She also taught us the value of
working.
“I couldn’t let fear be the master that enslaved me.”
hand through lifestyle. They were lessons
not taught by words but by her life.
Here’s an example of how she thought
outside the box. Shortly after my parents
divorced, she wanted to make sure we had
Thanksgiving, we set up shop. The trees
were cut the day before Thanksgiving, we
built stands to hold the trees, had a small
travel trailer placed there to sit in during
the cold, hand painted signs – the whole
Top Photo: Lori is surrounded by family:
Her daughter, mother and sister. Below:
Her recent Atlanta tour was a huge success.
Linda: When did you buy your very first
house?

Lori: I bought my first personal
investment at age 20 when I was still in
college. It was a 3 bedroom house on
a HUD program with $500 down and
18% interest rate. I didn’t have a job,
but I was able to qualify for the loan
on my own by getting leases signed for
the income. I rented out 2 bedrooms
and finished out the basement as an
apartment. It was my first experience
receiving cash flow and I was hooked.
I upgraded to a better cash flow house
a couple years later and haven’t looked
back since.
Linda: How did you learn to get over
your fears?
Lori: As mentioned above, I was raised
in the shadow of a powerful business
woman, my mom. She taught me that I
can achieve or have whatever I set my
mind to. With that kind of knowledge, I
didn’t feel constrained by fears. I felt like
whatever problems came up, I would be
able to solve it somehow.
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