Barney and the Gatekeepers
How My Retired Father Made It Big in the Real Estate Business
4 min readMar 20
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My father, a pharmacist by profession, retired to Florida at the age of 55. His retirement lasted three weeks. After a lifetime’s worth of waking up each morning with a purpose, now he had none. Golf didn’t count. Nor did watering his lawn or reading People Magazine. In fact, nothing counted.