Hello fellow real estate investors,
I’ll be using this blog to give you updates on my life, tell you what’s going on with myHouseDeals.com, give you updates on the latest real estate investing tips and trends, and more. So stay tuned!
But no real estate stuff today. Instead, I’ll begin by clarifying something that comes up several times a week here at myHouseDeals.com. We get the question, “Why are you operating different websites under different names? On myHouseDeals.com, your name is Doug Smith and on other investing sites, your name is Trent Smith. Sounds to me like you’re a scammer!”
The answer? I’m a twin! Check out the pic below of me and my brother, Trent. He’s the one on your left. I’m the one in the red on the right. In case you’re wondering, Trent is older … but only by 1 minute!
Trent and I grew up on a cotton farm in Lubbock, TX. Lubbock is about 2 hours south of Amarillo. It’s up in the Panhandle of Texas where, believe it or not, it actually snows! Here’s a pic of us as kids…
We must’ve gotten hailed out that year b/c my brother and I are surrounded by wheat instead of cotton. I’m on the right … I think 
Our first business venture! We sold Kool Aid for 10 cents per cup. And then got greedy and went for 25 cents per cup. Profits plummeted. We realized that if we charged only 10 cents, people felt sorry for us and tipped us $1 or more. But at a quarter … no tips! We went out of business 1 year later because we could no longer fit in our lemonade “retail center”. I’m on the right.
Want some? I didn’t think so. (I’m on the left.)
I’m on the left. Trent’s on the right. It’s a pic of us in pre-K. We had just learned that we’d be in grade school for the next 13 years. And then we’d be in college for another 4. And that we wouldn’t be able to buy a property on owner financing and sell it on a wrap-around mortgage for at least 15 years. You can imagine the shock.
I still remember this pic. Trent had just hit me with a rock from his sling shot. I was pissed. But Mama said “Doug! At least put your arm around him for the picture”. Notice how I’m in perfect position to get him in the choker hold. We fought like cats and dogs growing up. But we were … and still are … best buds. (I’m on the right.)
More good stuff coming in a few days. Stay tuned!
Doug Smith
President
myHouseDeals.com
The pictures of you and your brother are so cute! And the descriptions are funny. Good job! It’s nice to get to know the people behind the website/business.
Doug,
These photos are hilarious–made me cry. Did you pay extra to have yourself cloned for these “Me and My Twin Brother” pics?
Thanks for keeping your blogs clean and keep ‘em comin!
Good start…Keep it simple, keep it lite.
I’m still trying to get my act together to do some wolesaling.
It’s gonna happen.
Those pictures are absolutley beautiful and its refreshing to see that there are real people behind the website. keep it up Doug!
You are TOOO FUNNY…
I appreciate your humor in your advertising, now I don’t see you as a typical telemarketer..
Thanks for the chuckle…
In the early sixties I left New York to go to California. The week before Christmas. While going through Texas, with only miles of miles in view my car just stopped running. The was a fierce snow storm on the way. Ice on the roads, and not a living soul anywhere. I remembered that if you put something white on a window it would be a distress signal. This was truely a life and death situation. I sat for a few moments to think. Suddenly a beat-up old pick-up truck pulled up behind me. I crusty old man with farmer john jeans walked over and said “Howdy Pardna, Having Problems?”. He tied a rope to my car and towed it several miles to an old barn.
Inside were several similiarly clad men gathered around a Pot-Bellied stove. I really got nervous. I kept thinking about the movie Deliverance.
They all immediately swarmed around the car, opened the hood and started to work on it. They found that a pin from a distributor shaft had broken off. They replaced it with a bent nail. Ran like a charm.
I said thank you and asked “How Much Do I Owe You”?
The reply, “Where you headin?”. I told him California.
He said ” MAYBE ONE DAY I’LL BE OUT YOUR WAY AND YOU CAN RETURN THE FAVOR”.
I will always have a special place in my memories and heart for Texans – the Greatest People in the World!
Doug your blog is such a treat. I knew there had to be another of you out there…smiles
Your site is awesome. I am still working on my large Commercial deal and will report on it when finished.
I am very proud of Wendel Jones.
P.S. My website is down now…but will be up soon.
Derrel Sims, Private Investigator/Investor/Builder
Great to know that you hear what people say. Its nice to know your real and also Very funny I might say!!! Keep up the good work and keep the deals coming!!!!
Dallas, TX
Nice looking attorney!
True Human Love, thats what i am Talking about, This is The New age. New world order E-mail of its time. With Life at its Center, along with Sucess, a great Recipe. That No Human Should be without. your E-mail should be Name the it speaks, keep moving into the future with your postive inpack.
Chicago.
Love the site and Myhousedeals!!
Keep up the great work – I believe the shirt was maroon!!
Aubrey, Tx
I am not ready to use your services but I really enjoy reading your blogs. You make reading email fun!
You 2 were such cute little boys.
Love your site – So proud of you.
you are GREAT! Hysterical posts, great pics, a business with a human side! You guys ROCK, looking forward to doing MUCH business with you…
Christine
just looking at the photos of you when you were a kid. Looks like you had a great childhood.