Preventing Coronavirus

Proper Way to Wash Hands

*Intro and outro music are from an original piece by

Carl Zukroff of The Blue Hotel

Damon Amato

Down East – Building & Development

Down East – Private Lending

Down East – Consultants

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RECAP Investment Group

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You have stumbled onto another episode of Get Your FILL – Financial Independence and Long Life, where we explore ways to achieve those goals. The music you just heard is an original score by Carl Zukroff of the band, Blue Hotel. You’ll find links to his website, along with other relevant material including a video of today’s episode on my website, GetYourFILLPodcast. com.

So I guess a show that talks about long life would be remiss not to mention the avoidance of illness as one method of living a longer, healthier life. And right now, that involves not getting the coronavirus. The best way, according to the CDC, is to stay away from sick people.

I know, right? They get paid for this stuff.

If you don’t know whether you’re sick, sorry if you don’t know whether they’re sick, just wash your hands a lot and don’t put your hands into your eyes, nose, mouth or any other nearby mucous membranes. This advice also helps with the flu and pretty much any other germy thing that you might encounter.

And when I say washing your hands, that doesn’t mean just getting them wet and toweling them off. You need soap and hot or warm water for at least 20 seconds and if you think you might be coming down with something, do everybody a favor – and stay home. That way, you can avoid infecting others, you’ll get well more quickly. Believe me, your work doesn’t need you that badly.

On a happier note, I’m really excited today to be talking with Damon Amato. He’s what we call a Renaissance Man. He’s an athletic trainer and coach by day and a real estate investor, developer and lender by night and weekend. Damon thank you so much for joining us today.

Can you just tell me a little bit about yourself and how you kinda got into investing and your background, and that good stuff?

D: Sure, I’m not the typical investor, I guess. I have a bachelor’s degree in athletic training and a master’s degree in applied nutrition, so I actually still work as the head athletic trainer for Lowell High School in Lowell, Massachusetts.

I actually wrote a nutrition textbook also that’s kind of my primary occupation. I got into investing. I think 2008. I had enough money to put a down payment to build my own personal house, so I had no idea what I was doing. House is still standing though, so that’s good. Yeah, so it couldn’t have been that bad.

And then from there, I kinda started looking at investment properties to see how we could get some long-term wealth.

Of course, I did it in 2007 so was the worst possible time, thankfully of the 50 or 60 offers I made, nobody took any, so, I didn’t get anything. So I kinda lucked out a little bit. Actually, I saw recently, several properties, I put offers on at the time ended up, I gave them a low ball offer for what I thought the properties were worth and they end up selling it for even less than that, so I kind of lucked out there.

So in 2015, I started to really get involved with investing, I joined Fortune Builders which is an education company to learn how to invest in real estate.

I ended up meeting my current business partner there. He actually found me my first deal – lost my shirt and decided I could have quit right then and just decided it wasn’t for me, but instead decided I gotta figure out how to get myself out of this