Ian Cameron

Commercial landscape maintenance biz owner | Affordable housing investor and operator | Former Marine Infantry

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@Lawyer4Deals How about for you?

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@Lawyer4Deals This is a cool one that I recently read. It’s a dark, Norwegian-Minnesotan Little House on the Prairie. Originally written in Norwegian by a St. Olaf prof. Great read.

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@Lawyer4Deals Rob: your “Cordially Invited” to my Middle Age Professional’s Happy Hour

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Why? I’m right around that mark with a commercial landscape biz right now with average AR check size around $2,250. Lots of functions I need to start hiring for but this isn’t on the list for me right now. Doesn’t take too much time and I like being close to how we’re billing and our expenses.

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@realEstateTrent Take the bus

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@Schornack Awesome, these are all new for me, I’ll check them out.

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Thanks @Schornack for the inspo to share!

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My top reads of 2024:
1. The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert Caro
2. The Wide, Wide Sea – Hampton Sides
3. The Wager – Patrick Gann
4. A Voyage for Madmen – Peter Nichols
5. Eiger Dreams – Jon Krakauer
6. Blood and Thunder – Hampton Sides
7. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Times and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy – David Nassaw
8. Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose
9. Richard Nixon, The Life – John Farrell
10. An Unfinished Life – Robert Dallek

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@Schornack I’d also be interested to hear your reflections on the MN and banking- related books!

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@Schornack So there is - thank you for the out state geography lesson! Perhaps success in a much more capital light industy led to a lighter social impact than the Washburns, Steeles, Hills etc.? Just hypothesizing on an interesting observation here…

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@Schornack Same! Perhaps as simple as there being no Kittson county in contrast to many of the other major players?

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@Schornack @FoundersPodcast Reading this biography now.

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@Lawyer4Deals I think @Schornack would like this one too

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@paulg Being able to put down a book that you don’t find interesting is helpful. Too many people feel like they have to finish a book that they start and spend a lot of time struggling through a book they’re not enjoying.

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"He's not good with people, but give him a box of LaCriox and a bowl of pretzels and he'll crank out some great work." - prospective SMB seller describing his bookkeeper

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@PhillySMB @SMB_Attorney @VeteranETA Both local MN banks

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@SMB_Attorney I have a line against a portfolio of single family rentals. The lender I was working with recently believed they could take that entire HELOC against any individual property to keep the property outside of SBA collateral requirements. Deal didn’t close so can’t say if SBA ultimately would have signed off on it.