[RKDinOKC]

Have a cousin that was basically a stoner. The workplace drug testing stopped him from doing the drugs, but he is still a gardening, vitamins, and all natural foods freak. Anyway one of his stoner dreams was to walk into a Mercedes dealership in overalls and flip flops and pay cash for a new Mercedes. He got to and did that a few months after his baptist preacher father passed away.

I went to his father's funeral. It was huge. I think the whole town and them some showed up.

His baptist minister father, one of those preachers that always wore a black suit and white shirt with a silve fish hook on his lapel, invested everything except their basic needs in Realestate. They moved to Wagoner Oklahoma in the late 70's. When they did he bought some land and built the neighborhood and the new house they moved into. Nothing opulent just typical mid-income housing. He continued to by houses and rented them as section 8 housing. The renters tore up the houses but the state paid to fix them back and section 8 guaranteed the rent. He had a couple of guys that did nothing but fix houses.

He called his business Good Neighbors Reality. He took all the profits and re-invested it only taking just a meager living for their bare necessities. When he passed the income from all the rent houses stopped getting re-invested. Within a few months his 3 kids were cash millionaires plus all the income properties that generated it. His youngest daughter took over the management of Good Neighbors and last I heard was a big wig in the city of Wagoner partly because of the reputation of Good Neighbors Reality but also because she was the richest person in town.

He did all that on a small town baptist ministers salary.