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How To Retire Without Money
By Bob Belmont
CHAPTER 7 IN YOUR
OWN HOME TOWN
Page 3 of 12
This spring
Clinton graduates but, as he is making more money than Papa,
doesn't see any reason to give up his business, so he plans
two more years in college for a Master's degree. He thinks he
might just get a few more customers and manage the business
only, hiring college boys to help him. He is not retired but
he is certainly in an enviable position for a not yet
graduated college boy. He has over $700 worth of equipment,
his own car and a bank account.
Here's still
another case history for you, Bob. I have two Dutch girls
working for me. I got one thru the service of an entrepreneur
and the second through the first girl. The entrepreneur justs
acts as go between in getting European girls here for about
$200 to $250 per week and keep which is about half the
American domestic's charge if one can be procured. He charges
$500 for his services, working through some agencies in
Europe. But the thing he's proud of is the $1,000 he charges
some guys to get a good German or Swedish wife over here for
them. He keeps ads in several papers and must place two or
three girls a week. He seems always to be going down to meet
the boat.
Hope these
help you and good luck with the book. It certainly should fill
a need in this country of ours, too many people are going
batty trying to keep up the pace.
Cordially
Terry
I doubt if my
friend Terry expected me to print his whole letter, as was,
but it was too good to miss. He himself would make as good an
example as I could use in this book but unfortunately the
little system he has worked out to escape from the rat-race
and lead a full life is such that if I revealed it he would
have a hundred competitors overnight and would undoubtedly
lose his advantage.
I wish he had
been able to give us more details on the "entrepreneur" who
imported the Dutch servant girls, but there it is. I know of
another fellow in somewhat the same line but he brings his
girls up from Puerto Rico and has the advantage of not having
the worry about passports, immigration and so forth since
Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
I doubt if
this field is overcrowded. Servants in the United States have
become so expensive that even fairly well-to-do families find
it impossible to keep them. If you lived in or near a
community which would ordinarily call for servants you might
well consider this method of helping your neighbors—at a
profit.
CASE HISTORY No. 2. I wish I knew more of the details on this
one, too, but I simply can't remember them all, not even the
name of the man who dreamed it up. I was quite young at the
time I met him, but even then was impressed by the manner in
which he obtained a good livelihood with a minimum of effort.
As a matter of fact, he had this little business back during
the depression years and did very well indeed at a time when
some 15 million others were unemployed and wondering where the
next meal was coming from.
Let's call
him Blake (his name was something like that). He lived in
Kingston which is about a hundred miles up the Hudson River
from New York City and at that time was a community of about
100,000 persons. Blake's father before him had been a job
printer and Blake was taught the trade as a boy. Job printing
at that time was as depressed as any other field and Blake
couldn't look forward to any easy life by any means.
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