All characters engaging in sex are eighteen years or older. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons is coincidental. If you like this story, please vote, and comment to let me know what you liked, and look forward to many more stories from me. A big thanks to kenjisato for the editing.
The background
Robert excitedly sat down at the dining room table, as today was his sixteenth birthday; and he finally knew what he wanted to ask for as his birthday present. His parents have asked him several times what he would like, but he always had no answer. As his mom and dad sat down with him after eating dinner and cutting his cake, Robert looks at his parents as they asked the same question, what did he want for his birthday? Unlike most of his friends who ask for money and their first car, Robert had other ideas.
Knowing that his parents had just bought a new house to rent out, but needed a lot of work done to get it ready, he asked his dad if he could remodel their new rental house as his birthday present.
Robert Sr. looks at this son and says, "There's a lot of work to be done there, you know that right? The whole house needs to be gutted out and redone."
"That's exactly what am looking forward to," he answered back. Ever since he was little, Robert had an interest in architecture and engineering and always wanted nothing more than to tear down the walls of their home; but his mom was not having any of that in her new house.
Robert Sr. looked at his wife, "Summer vacation starts next week, and you know just as much as I do, about his love for architecture and engineering. Hell, he's been making furniture in the garage since he was six, and is getting damn good at it, too."
His mom looked at Robert knowing her son's interest and how recently, his custom pieces of furniture have been selling for a lot; especially the ones with the secret compartment and hidden doors. "Okay, but if you get in over your head with something you need to call Uncle Frank for help."
Jumping up and running to his parents, he gives them a big hug and screams, "Best birthday ever!!!"
The last week of school couldn't go by fast enough for Robert. All his friends were making plans to go to the pool and have parties, Robert was too busy thinking about the house and what he needed to do.
Robert walked into the house feeling excited for the next two months. He was going to be doing what he always wanted to do; but never had the opportunity to. Robert made his mom and dad promise that they wouldn't step foot inside the house until he was finished.
He first started but ripping down the walls ceiling and floors; the house was old and felt congested and divided. He opened up the kitchen, living room, and dining room to give the house an open floor plan and a more spacious feeling. For the next two months, he spent every day there making his dream into a reality, while staying within his parents' budget for the old house.
He had Uncle Frank inspect the wiring and plumbing of the old house to make sure everything was good, up to code, and found that they didn't need to be replaced. Robert reused what he could to save as much money by refinishing old door cabinets and fixtures making them look as good as new. Putting in LED lights, hardwood floors he got on sale, and a new paint job; the house started to look unbelievable.
Moving to the outside of the house, he redid the back and front yards and gardens, planting new flowers and trees. With new paint on the house, he was ready to show his parents and Uncle Frank the fruits of his hard work. To celebrate him completing the house, they all went out for lunch on Saturday, and after went to see his hard work. As they drove past, looking around for the old house, they don't even recognize it; the house looks better than they could have imagined. Getting out of the car and standing in front of the house, everyone was left speechless, but the real surprise waited inside for them.
Entering the house everyone looked around at the transformation of the house. Robert's mom looks at Frank and asks, "Did you help him do this, Frank?"
Looking just as surprised, he answers, "No! I'd love to take credit for this, but it's all Robert's doing."
Robert's dad went from room to room, surprised at every turn of this son's hard work. Once back, he asked, "How much did you go over budget?"
Looking back at his dad, he pulled out a piece of paper listing everything he spent and handed it to him and proudly said, "Under by two grand. I reused as much as I could; old doors, cabinets and fixtures."
Looking around, his dad said the house was too nice to rent out and let someone ruin all of his hard work; and they could get a lot more by selling it. Within a month on the market, the house had a bidding war with four buyers, and ended up selling for three times what the asking price was listed at. Speechless with the news, his dad said it sold for so much because of all the hard work Robert had put in over the summer on the house to make it look so good.
His dad handed him a check with the cost of the house and materials and a little profit taken out, there was more than half the money the house sold for.
"This was all possible because of you and this is your part, invest it in something for the future," the father said, knowing how much his son enjoyed working on the house. He knows he would buy another one with the money.
Robert knew that he wanted to buy something to fix like the house with the money he had, he knew he had a lot of options. After months of looking, he came upon an old apartment building in need of a lot of work.
It was a two storey building that had twenty apartments and was located in a middle-class area and the asking price was only forty thousand dollars due to the condition of the property. Thinking that after he fixed it up, he could rent out rooms and have a steady income every month; and with income like that, he could buy another house to flip.
After discussing this with his dad and mom, they contacted the real estate company to see the property. Once there, they quickly saw how bad it was; it hadn't had any tenants for the past two years after the owner had passed away; and his family only wanted the money, and didn't want to do any repairs to keep it running.
After a quick inspection from Frank, he told them it's not as bad as it looked, but every apartment would need to be torn down and redone to make it rentable again. After a long negotiation and showing the owners that the property needed up to one hundred thousand dollars, or more, in repairs. With it sitting empty for two years, knowing what other surprises there were, with no other potential buyers, and the owners desperately needing money; they got the price down to twenty thousand. That's only one thousand dollars per unit at that price; it was a steal. After the repairs, they could get two thousand dollars a month for each unit; getting double the investment back in less than one month alone. Making forty thousand dollars every month after it's fully rented out is not bad for a sixteen year old in high school.
Present day
Sitting in his office with the air conditioning on high, it was another hot summer day. Looking over applications of potential renters for his apartment, Robert started thinking back to when he was sixteen and started buying, remodelling, and flipping houses. Now eighteen years old and just graduated from high school, he now had twenty rental houses and buys and sells up to ten houses a year. Robert was now making close to thirty to forty thousand dollars from the apartment depending on how many empty units he had at the time and
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forty to fifty thousand from the rental house alone, and a couple of million from the houses he sells every year.
Against his parent's wishes, Robert decided not to go to medical school to become a doctor like his father. At eighteen, he was making more money in one month than most people make in a year, and more in one year than anyone he knows of, including his parents. He didn't see a need to spend the next seven years of his life in school to work long hours; be on call on weekends; to work holidays; to make less than what he makes in one month, doing what he loves. He had so much free time; to do what he wanted, to travel and see the world, or to just relax at home.
The only regret Robert had was that he had spent most of his free time in high school remodelling apartments or houses which didn't leave a lot of free time for him to be with all his friends out partying and getting laid. He was working; but he loved every minute of it. And now at eighteen years old, he had more than ten million in the bank, a big house, and all his dream cars nice lined up in his garage.
If he wanted anything in his life, he had the money to get it without giving it a second thought; not many people can do that in life. He did have a few girlfriends in high school and managed to get laid several times; but only when his girlfriends were in the mood. Thinking about it always made him mad, that girls had this power over guys. If they don't get wined and dined, or weren't in the right mood; they weren't putting out, no matter what. For a teenage boy, just starting to have sex, this was the worst thing ever. This led to long hours of Robert working out his frustration on his houses.