Track Life

In February of 2021 I entered turn 10b at Sonoma Raceway and lost control of my car at 90 miles an hour. I went flying into the tire wall. I didn’t know what to do, so I just relaxed into my body and let the car spin and go where it was going to go, too afraid to counter steer lest I make things worse. I focused on relaxing my body so the impact wouldn’t be so severe. My bucket seat hugging me close, strapped into my 5-point harness, I let go and trusted my safety gear and roll cage to do it’s job.

I walked away from that accident grateful to have survived, and thirsty for more. I refused to let my fear take hold. It did anyway. Two weeks later I was back on track, this time at Laguna Seca. The PTSD hit me hard. It took 8 months to start feeling confident on track again, and over a year to really start trusting myself and my car again. I had to take several steps back in order to move forward stronger and more confident in my next steps. I had to slow down, I stepped down to a slower, less experienced run group. It was a blow to my ego to go from the advanced group to the intermediate group. But it was the right thing to do and the only way I could recalibrate and get back to where I was.

Real estate in the Bay Area slows down for very brief periods of time and it’s these brief periods where some investors get really far ahead while others wait on the sidelines only to have regrets 6-12 months later saying “I wish I moved when things slowed down…”

I’ve been in this industry for 17 years. I’ve seen the markets go sky high, and plummet back down. Then I’ve watched them rise again steadily at first, and then drastically. I’ve also studied historically what the market has done in various recessions since 1960. I will tell you - NOW is the opportunity zone.