04.22.14 Exterior Photos of Property #2
Tuesday, April 22
Here's a peek at our second investment, a 2/1 duplex. Many properties on this block are a funny mustard yellow or a really dark brown. The entire block (and the block next to it) are rows of similar duplexes, arranged in groups of three facing a middle shared courtyard. Different pe...
04.21.14 Exterior Photos of Property #1
Monday, April 21
Not sure this will be of interest to all, but drove around the neighborhood taking photos, to give a feel for the streets, alleys, and surroundings. Blue house is our first property, a compact 4/1. To the right is a duplex with little privacy between, to the left is a secluded SFR with pri...
04.18.14 Focusing on a Square Mile
Friday, April 18
On a recent podcast, the guest suggested that people in larger cities focused on a one mile by one mile area. His allows you to get really good at one area, gain inefficiencies by not driving all directions, and not be overwhelmed in a big city. I live in a small town, but I still focus...
04.11.14 ABC's of Classifying Neighborhoods
Friday, April 11
Recently someone asked me what neighborhood class my properties are. I’m never sure if they are class C or class D. I decided to do some research on neighborhoods which brought me back to forum posts on Bigger Pockets. I learned that the letter grades vary by area, can sometimes be mor...
04.05.14 Switch to Garamond Font?
Saturday, April 05
After all the heavy stuff going on in my life lately, I thought something lighter would be fun. Last week, CNN put Suvir Mirchandani on camera to talk about a study he conducted that found US federal and state governments could save $370 million per year on printing costs with a simp...
03.30.14 Tenant goes missing
Sunday, March 30
So to what lengths would you go to find a missing tenant? The back story: Our one bedroom has been rented by a single retired (fixed income) guy for about three years. He had a storage trailer parked in the back yard. He had a lot of visitors but we couldn't tell whether they were liv...