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THE TEXAS’ Article By Tim Houghten EXPERTS Strategies for Becoming Permanently Unemployable O nce you’ve experi- enced the perks of being a real estate investor you’ll never dream of wanting to do anything else again. So how can you become permanently ‘unemploy- able’ by harnessing sustainable, highly effective real estate strat- egies, and mastering the Texas property market? We recently caught up with Shenoah Grove of Texas Wealth Network to find out the answer. THE PREMIER REAL ESTATE INVESTOR ASSOCIATION IN TX Along with her husband Phill Grove, Shenoah operates seven Texas REIA groups, with a network of over 15,000 inves- tor members. Monthly meetups hosted by the Texas Wealth Network are held in: • Austin • Houston • San Antonio Realty411Guide.com • Dallas/Ft. Worth Events are regularly attended by over 100 local investors, as well as an array of local vendors, and lenders. UNEMPLOYABLE & LOVING IT Phill and Shenoah Grove have been “unemployable” and loving it since the early 2000s. They love real estate, the lifestyle they have achieved, and are passionate about sharing the keys to their success with others. Once you’ve been your own boss for long enough, and do well at it, you reach a point where you are too qualified, too independent, and often too wealthy to work for anyone else. Some have crashed and burned and have cringingly tried to crawl back to the work- place, only to find they are too intimidating for employers to bring in. Others just can’t ever imagine a scenario in which they’d work for anyone again. PAGE 88 • 2016 The Groves have dedicated themselves to being lifelong edu- cators and students of the market. Shenoah shares that, “We do what we teach, and teach what we do.” A big part of that is “recognizing that when you stop learning, you start failing.” In order to proudly maintain your “I’m unemployable badge”, Shenoah explains that like Wayne Gretzky, “You must always be skating to where the puck is going to be.” That will ensure you will “be successful in all the years ahead.” AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH “If you want different results, you need different strategies” In order to create and maintain uncommon achievements you’ve got to take uncommon actions. Shenoah Grove lives this out on a daily basis, and together with Phil has developed a powerful formula for their events, which ensures reWEALTHmag.com