Recalculation of the route - Tomer Maor (short introductory post)
# Initiated week Tomer Maor # Post 1
Hello friends. I'm Tomer Maor (or as the complimenting Americans put it Mr. Mayor) and my posts will be a little different from what you're used to in the group. As an Israeli and American lawyer, I will try to give you some legal input (but not boring I hope) on all sorts of issues that come up in the life of a real estate investor in the US.
So I'm 40, married + 2 boys, and by and large I can say I'm here because of my wife (or because of my wife, as I will detail shortly).
All my life, I knew I would be a lawyer. My late grandfather set up an office, my dad joined him, my big brother joined and the route was pretty natural. I worked for years as a lawyer in Israel, engaged in real estate and commercial law and litigation, and the truth? I had a spin.
My dear wife - a scientist. While she was still in her master's degree, the option of moving abroad for a postdoctoral degree arose. I always said, “No problem. I'm always behind you, just give me some warning that I'll think about what I'm doing with myself. "Oh, and I have no problem where, only this should be an English-speaking country and not England."
Towards the end of her doctorate, the alert came. It looks real. What will I do with myself? I'm a lawyer, this is what I do all my life, and this is a foreign state, other laws, another law, another license.
Reward that day, the wonder and wonder (or someone listened, say Mark Zuckerberg) popped up on me a Facebook ad of a company preparing for bureau exams in the United States: "Did you know you could be an American lawyer?". Walla I did not know. But come on, I found what to do in the US.
I signed up for a course, got boxes of books home, a username and password to see lectures, come on. Studies. Two months before the test, my wife flew to the US for interviews. New York (Columbia) and Boston (Harvard). Was accepted for both. We decided on Boston. Then: a flight to Buffalo, a two-day nightmare test, a return to the country, a flight to New York, another (different) test, and in between another test in the country. Two months later an email arrives. I passed!!!! Getting ready for relocation!
My goal: to join an international firm, and join an Israeli desk to work with Israeli clients and help them with their business steps in the United States. Slowly towards the transition I "cleaned the table" in an office in the country, and I aimed to start from scratch in the US.
Arrive in the US. I am unemployed and without a work permit. Begin to roll. The savings are over. A work permit arrives and as it arrives I find myself starting to work as an attorney at a cyber company I helped set up. Not what I planned, but paying bills (and come on, cyber is fun). After a few months there is not enough work for In-House Attorney, and I return to the original plan. Already that week - first meeting with the office I most wanted to work in. Things look good. Interviews in New York, Boston, phone calls, more interviews, more stages and at the end of 2019: “You are inside. We are preparing a contract. "
At the time, some Khurchik in China thought it was a good idea to eat a bat. Wow, dumb.
February 2020, the contract arrives, all kinds of reports from Israel about restrictions and matters begin to arrive at the same time, but in the US everything is normal. Seals, brings to the office and waits for the phone to tell me "you start tomorrow".
Two days after I brought the signed contract to the office, the little son (who was then six months old) was hospitalized in intensive care with a respiratory virus. Corona? Do not know. No one checked then… Anyway, I'm with him in the hospital and waiting for the same phone and thinking to myself, “what am I telling them?”.
The phone did not arrive.
And that's it. The world has stopped.
I did not hear from the office. Then I heard, there are no unequivocal answers, do not know what will happen.
Let's run forward - 2020 is over, it will no longer be implemented.
Recalculate route
Working on the 2020 tax refund, my accountant tells me “why not open a solo”?
I have always been independent. But it made no sense to me to do it in a foreign country. I do not know people, where will I get customers?
"Do not worry," he told me.
So I went for it.
At the time, I was a full-time dad to the little boy. A year old and a little then. How do you start a business and at the same time take care of the child all day? By and large, get up an hour earlier (or a few hours). But that's another matter.
From that decision until today, I have already helped more than 100 investors in all sorts of things, big and small. I enjoy, learn and teach and have discovered an amazing community of rare people. fun.
I ate my head a bit, but in the following posts I will tell about some cases (without mentioning names of course) and the morality of them for investors.
In the photo: me and the partner.
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