Empty room with window and fallen curtain rod

Upward view through leafy green tree canopy

Leaf-littered deciduous forest with green canopy

Touchdown 2026

Bruce Mintzer has landed in North Carolina to make my 4th fortune. This is my 4th quarter of this game.

The site is a magical protected forest of 100’s of trees that are way over 100 feet tall, at the very top of Greene Street in the very center of Chapel Hill.

I am incredibly lucky and profoundly grateful to have arrived this far.

My first fortune was built in the late 1970’s together with my father Jack who passed at age 57, in Florida where I built and sold over 200 houses before I was 27. I exited the home building and sales business. My second fortune came to me suddenly in West Hollywood, CA where I developed a gorgeous condominium project in a fabulous location high above the famous Sunset Strip with views overlooking LA. I transitioned in the 1980’s and then arrived in Sacramento CA, where I developed houses, apartments, land, and a small commercial strip. All that activity made me a third fortune that floated my boat for a period that spanned 4 decades until end of 2025. Now in 2026 I have traded my way into the magical protected forest property on Greene Street, Chapel Hill without knowing just what I will create and build here. So the world will have to wait and see what happens next. If I have strength it will be my finest project ever and my 4th fortune…. Stay tuned

It’s most important for me to note here how many times I have stumbled and tripped over my own feet and fell. I really don’t know anyone that has made more mistakes. My blunders have humbled me over and over and over again but I was never yet defeated. I requested my epitaph to be

“ Fall seven times and rise up again “ כי שבע יפול צדיק וקם Proverbs 24.16

Pregnant and homeless are two words you don’t want to hear in the same sentence, but alas that was our situation when we stumbled upon the green and pink building known as Magnolia Suites in August of 2018. Me and my husband had been traveling for work with all our belongings in a storage unit when I found out I was pregnant … read more

Lucy I., Mother

I moved down here from Watsonville and I was homeless for about five years. I’m bipolar to start off with, which I still suffer from today. I got sick with pneumonia, found out I have had a septic infection, kidney failure, so I wound up in the hospital for days and ended up losing my car and my dog. I lost everything… read more

Larry, Retiree

Right before I moved here I had just gone through a separation with my wife and I was living out of my place of work. I work in Prison Ministry doing transitional services, helping people when they come out of prison. The first thing I noticed about Magnolia Suites was the sign … read more

James, Minister

I had to leave my home in Laramie, Wyoming in July of 2015. I had to get out of there so I could stay alive. Laramie has an elevation of 7220 feet 2000 feet higher than my prior home in Boulder, CO, and I have COPD (Chronic Inflammatory Lung Disease).… read more

Steven, Veteran