In June 1999, at my peak that year, I owned & built two Days Inn Hotels, two Strip Centers, developed a 600-acre Subdivision in Southern Indiana, and was Owner/Broker of Re/Max Associates, one of the largest Real Estate Firms in Kentucky with $100 million sales volume, 50 agents and 3 other Re/Max offices in Indiana and Naples, Florida. And then, my "Waterloo."

My Attorney stole $218,644.00 from the Re/Max Escrow Account. As Responsible Broker I immediately had to personally put money back to keep operating. I had discovered my attorney had me sign on the most numbskull documents imaginable. All of a sudden I was "putting out fires" in three states. I felt like a "rat in a trap." I didn't want the cheese anymore, I just wanted out of the "trap." My friends saw me swirling around in the toilet and were afraid to extend or be pulled in. However, I did survive after three years of liquidation and $125K in attorney fees as another victim. I am selling out -- I now want to work for someone else, a big time operator, where I can juggle fewer balls and rebuild my life with my new wife.