A Football Life: My journey before real estate
Friday, May 21
My life has not always been about real estate. Before real estate my life's work was one thing. College Football. I graduated in December of 2013. After that I accepted a graduate assistant job at Dakota State University. Getting a small-stipend I was in heaven. Getting paid to coach football and...
Lessons Learned: First Flip Experience
Monday, May 10
I have considered myself pretty handy and have enjoyed looking for real estate deals for a large part of my life. Having been a football coach traveling around the Midwest and not having much available time it was very hard for me to pull the trigger on an investment property or flip. (I had not ...
1980s Waterloo, IA: Buyer's Market
Friday, April 30
I was not alive in the 1980s but the landscape for manufacturing rich areas was bleak. In Waterloo, IA the biggest job players were Rath Packing Plant and John Deere. Rath had been around for many years and had at one time been the largest meat packing plant in the United States however it closed...
Traveling on Pure Cash Flow: Paying for Paradise with Rentals
Monday, April 05
About a year before my grandpa died he sold one of his properties to my mom. This got here started on the investment property journey. She bought it on contract for 45,000 which she has since refinanced after he died. It is currently being rented for 675 a month. She has had her fair share of exp...
The Bridgebuilder: Mowing, Cops, and Drug Houses
Friday, March 19
As he did with a lot of things in his life my grandfather inspired both my aunt and uncle to purchase investment properties after his first big purchase. I laugh when Brandon Turner on Biggerpockets talks about the uncle everyone has that had a tough time being a landlord because that was my uncl...
Beginning: As Gary Vee says Document, Don't Create Investor Journey
Thursday, March 18
Hello, my name is Jared and I over the last few weeks I have been called to document my journey and what has lead to my real estate investing. I have never thought of anything I have done in life as particularly unique or even that people would be inspired or interested in my story or journey. I ...