Dear Diva…

Hi Diva,
How you holden’ down?
We met through a friend of ours.
I am curious about a listing in the North Oakland area of town. Do you think it will go for $199k or much higher?
Why are they selling it in an auction, so quickly?
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The love of homeownership…

It’s raining BUCKETS…more than cats and dogs. Came home today around 4:30 and heard a noise as I walked in the door. I thought “what the fuck?”

I walked into the dining room and saw that my entire kitchen floor was flooded and that water was POURING down from the CEILING.

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I bought a girdle for Suze Orman…

A friend of mine who lives in Greece but has a business in the Bay Area (Hillgirlz.com) sent me an email.

Lydia,
Suze Orman will be at Orson tonight!
This is your chance to have a word with her to set up an interview!
4th Street … just around the corner from Bryant Street ….

She knew that I’ve been looking for a way to get Suze on the Women Building Wealth interview series. So she sent me on a last minute adventure to go to an event in San Francisco and connect with Suze Orman. I mean come on…women building wealth…who better to talk to and interview than Suze herself.

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I see white people…diversity in “good” communities

Remember the movie The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis and the kid in the movie says “I see dead people” well in my quest to find a new place to call home with no crime rate, a lovely environment, great public schools, clean and green community immediately brings to mind that movie only with the saying, “I see white people.”  

If I want all of the characteristics and qualities of the list above that means, I’m afraid to say, that I’m going to be giving up diversity. 

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Shit for brains…

 It’s interesting to me, out of all the women that I have spoken with in the last two months for WBWTR’s interview series there was something that Barbara Stanny mentioned that still gives me pause.  Barbara Stanny for her book Secrets of Six-Figure Women interviewed hundreds of high earning women and discovered that nearly all of the women she interviewed felt as though they were living a charlatan’s life.

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A lot has been happening…

I’ve been working hard after my stint at Sitting Shiva.  WBWTR’s 70 page digital book about women building wealth was completed for the Greatest Real Estate Giveaway, I was fotunate enough to interview Michelle Lenahan and Lynnette Khalfani and I have Bernice Ross up for interview #2 as well as Barbara Stanny who has agreed to be in the hot seat next week.

The full update should be in place next week.  Make sure to check back soon!

One colonic please…

So I finished my week of Sitting Shiva.

I reflected upon this last year and tried to find the lessons I was to learn. This cleansing of my soul, centering and starting of the new was supposed to be a smooth and easy process. It wasn’t to be so. 

Instead the past year was like a colonic given by a first year med student. It was painful and there wasn’t a lot to smile about but the Shiva was a good thing for me. Read more

Sitting Shivah…

Yesterday was a hard day. It rained big time and on top of all the other shit I’ve had to handle my windshield was still leaking, the carpet smelled like mold and I feel worn down and beat up.

For the past 7 years I’ve worked hard to stay focused and build my “wealth”. Although its been 10 months it seems as if in a blink of an eye I find myself at the bottom having to claw my way up again.  So I decided to sit Shivah…for my life.

I’m giving myself 7 days and then burying my past. In these 7 days I’ve set about to work on cleaning my soul Read more

When it rains it pours…

I’ve been through the month from hell. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Every direction turned was the wrong direction and every task has turned into a nightmare.

So you know about the Sticky Bandits well it turns out that some of them or a group similar to the ones that hit my home were caught. The SF Chron reported it. Now I am in the middle of the insurance mess. Thank god that my neighbor took pics. We burned them to Cd and I gave a copy to the claims adjuster along with the OPD police report now its a matter of itemizing everything and trying to find all the receipts. Read more

Sticky Bandits…

So my house was burglarized the other day. I dropped my kid off at school at 9AM, picked up my mom, made a pit stop and came home around 10:15AM. The front door was wide open and I’m thinking to myself “WTF? I know I locked the front door.” We get out of the car. I entered first and all I saw was my shit all over the floor and graffiti on the walls. I cried. Read more

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