New Member - Kansas City, Missouri

[Rodney Buford]

Just wanted to introduce myself, I am Rodney Buford and I am from Lee's Summit, Missouri which is a suburb of Kansas City.  I have some past experience in Real Estate but unfortunately not good experiences thus far.  Previous experience went in with some partners on 9 units (4.5 duplexes).  They managed the finances and I took care of the property management for many years.  Long story short, we sold just recently and lost money because they wanted out and we did a poor job of running numbers when we bought them.  I am licking my wounds but ready to get back on the horse, I am really hopefully I can learn lots more on bigger pockets and try make another go at this on my own.

I am hoping to get some advice on how to get back started looking for SFH or duplex. Hoping to get to some local events around K.C. as well.

Thanks for your time,

Rodney B.

[Logan Freeman]

@rodneybuford Welcome back. There’s an event this Wednesday evening put on by crossroads lending at nick and Jakes near the plaza. I plan on attending and think it would be a great place to network. If I know anything, it’s that the more people you can call friends in this industry and market, the more opportunities will come your way. Either way, I’m always open to connecting. Glad you’re here! Maybe you could write a post on how we all can fall into the trap of rationalizing why our deals make sense to ourselves. I always try and get 2 or 3 people’s opinions on my purchases-and I bait them into why they wouldn’t do the deal to try and hash out the reasons that they might have kept to themselves beforehand.