valuable.
I loved negotiating a difficult deal and watching the numbers finally work.
And I loved knowing that every property I acquired brought me a little closer to the financial independence I had worked toward since my twenties.
My family knew almost none of this.
To them, I was simply Claire, the single daughter who worked in housing.
My older sister, Melissa, had a very different life.
She was married to Kyle, a sales manager who could turn almost any conversation into a speech about his potential earnings. They had
