Freedom56
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I only met one. He is a majority owner of units in our condo in Florida. You would think he has better things to do, but he attends many of our association conference calls and as a majority owner dictates how to cut expenses. He also attends social functions held at our condo. He owns 2500 units in Florida and about 3500 apartment units in Los Angeles. He made over a billion buying credit default swaps on subprime mortgage back securities as housing crashed after 2008. Instead of calling it quits and relaxing, he rolled his gains into buying condos that owners/developers were defaulting on. Most of those were in Florida. All in all, a smart move. He is a workaholic and extremely driven. When he was younger, I was told he traveled across the country selling circus tickets to help him pay his expenses at Harvard. I was also told he bought his first house as an MBA student at Harvard and rented out rooms to other students. He had 18 properties at graduation. For him it's not about money anymore, he just likes what he is doing, likes taking calculated risks, and micro-manages the world around him.