I realized I am an entrepreneur at the age of 30!
Thursday, March 04
The Dream It’s 2 pm and I am sitting in one of my engineering classes in college taking my last final exam. I was so excited, I had a job lined up working for the Department Of Defense and I was finally going to be an engineer, and make lots of money! I graduated and I moved half-way across the ...
Analyzing a Duplex Vs 40 unit Apartment Complex?
Tuesday, March 02
Have you ever wondered if analyzing a 20 unit or 40 unit is similar to analyzing a duplex? Do the same rules apply? As far as the 1% rule or 2% rule? Well the answer is no, analyzing a 40 unit is very different from analyzing a duplex, it’s actually a lot easier to analyze the 40 unit apartment c...
Too much offense and not enough defense!
Thursday, February 25
It's Monday morning and I am writing an email to my agent to let her know that I would like to rescind an offer I had on a property. The three-bedroom two-bathroom single-family was listed at $159,000 and I know based on market rents in that particular area, the property would make more sense at ...
My first turnover, in the dead of winter!
Tuesday, February 23
As a buy and hold investor, we know that the worst possible time to turn a unit is in December. People are getting ready to travel to spend time with families for the holidays and no one is planning a move during that time. Well just one year into the real estate game, I received a text from one ...
What is your RE Why?
Monday, September 21
Have you ever been sitting down in your cube and wondered to yourself why am I here? If so then you might be an entrepreneur, more specifically a real estate investor. Those thoughts have steered me into the world of real estate investing and now two properties and three doors later, I am focused...
Oh No! Tenant calls at 2 am, Toilet is clogged!
Monday, September 14
Before I began investing in real estate, I would always hear the old saying, do you want to deal with phone calls at 2 am in the morning? Or do you want to deal with tenants from hell? Well, the latter you can avoid by doing proper screenings for potential tenants. So far in my first year of bein...