Acknowledgements

Judy Salisbury is the person I depend on whether it’s for literary endeavors or life challenges.

She’s my grammarian, creative and computer advisor, proof reader and most generous critic. She’s also strong of character, loving and lovely

Judy you’re the bomb.

I’d also like to give shout outs to my three children and their wonderful partners. You guys: Jesse Parry , Beau Barrabee and Matt Barrabee— Zach, Tara and Elizabeth could always be counted on to read my endless submissions to Medium that eventually became this book. I appreciate your forgiveness for allowing me to sneak in events from your childhood occasionally in my confessions. Also, thanks for always being ready and willing to be dragooned into service in case of frequent unexcused absences of employees.

My grandchildren Emma, Lily, Grace, Xavier, Luke and Nicholas will hopefully have Confessions of a Real Estate Man as required reading in some esoteric real estate school exam cram course if the real estate profession figures somewhere in your future.

I’d like to thank Diane McCullough who took a jumbled pile of short stories with scattered pictures and rearranged them into what is now a book. I’d be lost and confused in a literary haze without you Diane.

The stories were written for the on line platform Medium with guidance from Dr Mehmet Yildiz from the Illumination, Justin Chang from the Data Driven Investor, Esat Artag publisher of the Innovation sprinkled with inspiration from Genius Turner and other…