All Forum Posts by: Andre Crabb

Hi all,

For the past year, I've been "location independent". Amazingly I've been able to travel the US and the world while holding a full-time job. I've been saving up and its almost time to get my hands dirty in real estate! :D

As long as I stay in furnished places, I carry everything in two backpacks! Are there any advantages to being location independent for real estate investing? If so, what are they, and what would be a great way to get started?

• Choose the "best" city in the US for real estate and go there?
• Start with some live-in flips?
• House-hack over and over again as I fix up units?
• Do the long-distance thing and be wherever I want to be yet invest in other markets?

I'd love to hear others' ideas!

Are there any downsides? Like paperwork? I don't want to haul that around with me that's for sure.

How can I use my location independence to accelerate my journey to financial independence?

Hi all, sounds like there's a nice motivated group here! Count me in on any discussions, I'm looking to do my first flip by the end of the year in south Florida :)

Travis Rasmussen sounds like I'm following your footsteps! I'm from California but looking to move to/invest in Florida. How is the rental doing? And what's your justification for buying another in this high market?

Thanks @Gabriel Amedee. I'm game for the August meetup. Doing some traveling until then.

I've been looking into tax deeds myself, and you can hire a company to look into the riskiness of the liens before the auction.

Looking forward to it @Jason Horsley!

Hey @Aaron B Lee, I'm looking around Miami

Thanks @Jonna Weber! I still need to build my network but I'll keep all that in mind :)

Thanks @Mitch Messer! Atlanta isn't my target at the moment, but if that changes I'll let you know :)

But if you happen to know any near Miami, I'm all ears!

Hey there BP, One thing that's been holding me back from making a purchase is that I'm traveling. I'm not physically in the city where I want to buy. I'm planning to target off market (auction) properties and was thinking if I could only have someone look at the properties I'm interested in, send me photos and videos, and maybe even get an estimate on ARV or rehab costs, I could proceed. Is that something some agents would do? Or contractors? Appraisers?

Jason Horsley hey Jason. Very goal driven newbie investor here coming into real estate with a whatever it takes attitude to "retire" early as you did. I'd love to sync up and chat about our goals and see if they align at all. I'll be moving to Miami at the start of august with the goal of flipping a SFH by the end of the year.