Repeating cycles of collapse and renewal.

Hello!
I am Jun Sayama, a landlord working hard in the Kansai region.

I heard a very interesting story the other day.
Things tend toward collapse if left alone,
and the speaker referred to this as "entropy," citing physics,
which is a concept that makes sense physically.

Real estate is the perfect example of this, isn't it?
Building deterioration, equipment failure, and the resulting rent reductions, etc.,
if you don't take action, "collapse" might be too strong a word, but
it will deteriorate.

Even so, when I heard this,

"That's obvious, it's just aging," I thought.

But when I listened to the person's story more closely,

"This applies not only to physical phenomena but also to people's minds and situations."

they said. For example,

"Oh, I've finally become the landlord of an entire apartment building.
From now on, I'll live comfortably on rental income."

Even if you think that, it doesn't work out that way. That seems to be the point.
Even if that person intends to do so,
if the mind deteriorates over time, the situation deteriorates.

Once the situation of receiving rent becomes taken for granted, little by little,
wasteful spending increases, or you become interested in things you previously refrained from.
As a result, the ideals or dreams you initially envisioned change.
Before you know it, you aren't making as much money as you thought, or it isn't remaining.
Add to that equipment failures, repeated move-ins and move-outs, etc.
Eventually, you might think, "Why do such troublesome things keep happening!"
or become desperate...

Yes, this is from personal experience. Haha.

Indeed, things deteriorate... it is a very valid point,
and it applies not only to physical things but also to mental and abstract matters.

So, what should we do?

To start with the conclusion,

"It really comes down to aiming high and working hard."

The person who told me this story expressed it
with the word

"Negentropy."

It is the opposite of entropy. It seems to mean
"counteracting deterioration by performing repairs, maintenance, and updates."

By being conscious of this, the mind is refreshed,
you take on new challenges, accelerate the path you are currently walking,
manage risks to see if there were any mistakes in what you did,
and so on. By doing this, you make your business solid and expand it.

That is what one could say. That is what they said.

...
In other words,

"You never stay in the same place."

That's what it means, right?
Before I became a landlord myself, I also thought,
"Once you become a landlord, you've basically already won."

I thought things like that, and in reality, my situation became
much better than that of an average salaryman, but

in the end, one way or another,
"I want better properties."
"I'll increase my income streams to solidify my asset environment."
"I'll reinvest the increased cash flow from rent into stocks."
"A problem occurred. How can I minimize the loss?"
As I acted according to the situation at hand, I was
practicing that "negentropy" on my own.

That's exactly it.

"Once you do this much, your life's productive activities are over.
Congratulations. From here on, life will run itself even while you sleep."

It means that there is no such thing as that.
No matter how far you go, if you don't constantly stay active,
deterioration, fraying, and collapse will begin to emerge from there.

That is the reason why winning the lottery doesn't mean you've made it for life.

This is important, so I will keep it in mind from now on.

Thank you for reading!

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