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One of the ironies here is the guys sister. She was a HS Spanish teacher.

Meets her future husband who is Spanish. Everyone tells her to look out, this guy is no good.

He wants to open a restaurant so they save their money and buy this little French place. Does not do well at all.

So they gut it and turn it into a Tex Mex joint. She quits her teaching job and helps run the place. They have a baby, he stays home during the day with the baby while she runs the place, around 5 or 6 he drives over with the baby, she goes home and watches the kid till the morning and hubby runs the business overnight.

That was 15 years ago. It's one of the most popular restaurant/watering holes in the area.

10 years ago they get into buying up property/fixing renting and flipping it.

They now have a house in a very exclusive area of Queens with an acre of property in a neighboorhood where 1/4 of an acre is a million dollar property.

2 years ago they sold some of their smaller rentals and bought a house out east on the water with 300 ft of private beach. It's their weekend place, cost them $2.5 million.

He has a collection of Harleys and cars and with evverything that he learned fixing and flipping houses he started a construction/remodeling business that's doing as well as the restaurant.

My friend to this day thinks his brother in law is no good.

I don't think he'll ever understand that the American Dream requires work.