Attending BiggerPockets Meet-Ups
Saturday, May 28
While Heather and Brandon were bringing little Rosie into the world, Bruce and I were driving up to Olympia for a BP meet-up. We missed seeing Brandon, but what a fun new adventure for them!This was the second meet-up in Olympia. We missed the first one due to illness. I’m not sure how many we...
Future Millionaire
Friday, May 20
I recently read Brandon’s post on how to become a millionaire.He did it by age 30. Very impressive! I’m on track to do it by age 50. Slower, but still on target.Every BiggerPockets podcast has the question “what sets apart successful real estate investors from those who fail or never get start...
Collecting Rent... and Intel
Saturday, May 14
Rent was collected by ALL of our tenants smoothly this month, what a blessing!Read this on the FOR RENT Facebook page this week:Available for move in today. It's just me, my nephew and son. I have a 3 bedroom house, fenced in yard, and a shed in the back yard for extra storage. All I'm asking is ...
No Underestimating Millennials Here
Sunday, May 08
Recently read this BP article about millennials.Sometimes I feel like I am a Millennial stuck in a Gen X body. I’m not exactly tech savvy, but I got to my smart phone for a ton of things, none of them as a phone. I fell into the marketing hype for Scion, the now-defunct new cars geared toward t...
Thoughts on Pitbulls
Sunday, May 01
We have a local Facebook group called “For Rent (Cowlitz County)”. It has given us plenty of laughs and great insight into how applicants think.There was a hilarious string on Facebook this week regarding a rental unit being infested with ants, but she spelled it “aunts”. People had a field day....
Two Tenants Moving in Monday
Saturday, April 23
What a difference a week makes!For the property with our PM, the sheriff came to remove the evicted tenants, our PM got the house rent ready at their expense, and they have a new tenant moving in Monday. The PM is also going to split the eviction fees with us. We don’t have invoices yet to know...