Playtime Rules

Rule #2 Money is Everything

Rule number two, money is everything, but that was not all that mattered to her.

Money, business, and dick, that's how she ranked things important to her.

In that order, nothing else. She did not have any family left. She had friends, but she did not put them before any of those three.

She grew up with barely enough, as an only child to parents who worked hard to give her little. Her mother was an elementary school teacher. Her father was a maintenance man at a corporate office building. Both made about fifty thousand a year and had their house paid off in fifteen years. Her parents taught her the importance of saving money and paying bills on time. Though they never had any extra money to spoil her with it.

Since a kid, she dreamed of having more. More money, more friends, and a bigger house. Now she had all those things and more.

Soon as she could she left home at seventeen and went off to college at Illinois State University. All year her focus was partying and sleeping with as many guys as she could. Then both her parents died in a car crash, leaving her the little they had, their house, and their insurance policy.

She left college, mourned at home, and then decided she had to live her life to the fullest after their deaths. She did not want to keep the house, because of the memories and it was a mess. In the Spanish Lakes area of north St. Louis County and not that big. After she paid the costs of the funerals, with the rest of the insurance policy, she invested in the house, updated it, and sold it for more than double what her parents paid, earning back all the money she put in.

That gave her the idea to buy and flip another house. In the area she was familiar with, it was very easy to do. She found the best contractor to help her and made a hundred thousand dollar profit, after expenses from one house. Then another and another. After several more successes, she had earned half a million.

The following year, she doubled that, making her first million at twenty-one years old. She was all in at that point taking classes to get the proper certifications to be a real estate agent. She would buy a livable house, stay there during most of the construction, and then sell the house for a profit. For the last several years, she did not have a permanent residence and she rather liked it.

This way she got to live all across the St. Louis area and learn about each neighborhood's housing market. She liked to go where the money was. Her current residence was in Lake St. Louis, a large stately home that she was modifying for a specific buyer. Four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms full bathrooms, three car garage, lower level mother-in-law suite, and massive backyard area that lead to the lake.

Lake St. Louis was in St. Charles County, adjacent to St. Louis County, and was far from her old neighborhood as possible, but also close to the St. Louis area where the housing market was great for house flippers. She did not bother buying any office space, she worked for herself and no one else. She hired the same contractor to work on the houses. She learned to do her spreadsheets of expenses.

She set up her retirement fund and deposited in it monthly. Not that retirement was anywhere near. With her lifestyle, unlike her parents, she loved to spend as much as she made it. She treated her friends to several trips around the world at least two to three times a year. Sometimes she traveled on her own.

And she liked to buy things.

And she liked to enjoy men.

Like hottie from the gym, and she did not even know his name.

She did not get to finish watching him play because after he finished one game, they went right into another. She was bored of it, and so was Tamyra. They left and she was ready to go home after that.