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All Forum Posts by: Andrei P farley

Andrei P farley has started 2 posts and replied 6 times.

Post: Multi-Family (house hack) or SFR

Andrei P farleyPosted
  • Posts 6
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Originally posted by @Taylor L.:

Have you considered a short term rental house hack? Buy a larger house than you need with an inlaw suite, then rent out said inlaw suite to Airbnb type short term rental guests.

Safety boils down to screening your tenants well. Establish rules and standards, have a strong lease, and stick to it. The vast, overwhelming majority of people are not out to harm anyone or burn your house down!

Consider the upside of what your children may learn by watching and participating with you as you run your rental. They'll learn about hard work, making a long term plan, the value of real estate, and so much more! 

Instead of thinking about what could go wrong, think about what could go right! What if your kids get so inspired, they decide they want to become real estate investors as soon as they can too?? What if your success in real estate inspires them to do it too, and they end up being successful real estate investors? What if they become millionaires in their 20s by leveraging skills they learn from working with you? That's not crazy or impossible - there are many stories of people who have achieved that.

One thing that helps a lot of folks get over their early fears is networking with others who started in a similar position and achieved success. Can you get out to local real estate networking events and talk with other investors? How about joining groups for military service members who invest? There are many of those!

It's hard to say what your wife's true underlying concerns may be. As humans we tend to make decisions more on emotions first, rather than on facts and figures. Not a male/female thing, we all do it. That's how marketing works. It's difficult to replace fear, but can you relate using other emotions, such as excitement of the possibilities for your children to learn from you? Just as an example.

 This is very true and I have to say I agree with your point of view on passing this knowledge onto the kids. I think we could save on some of the learning aspects of fixing up a kitchen to improve the rents and see if that’s something we would be interested in doing ourselves or just hiring a contractor. Trial and error if you will. 

I’m currently deployed but I’ve been looking at webinars and seeing if there’s get togethers in or around Austin since I’m stationed at FT. Hood. 

Thanks for the heads up on military groups, this didn’t cross my mind as most of the people I interact with don’t have the same mind set for their money. I do try to enlighten my soldiers with information but everyone has their own goals for their military careers. 

We’ve kind of narrowed it down to home hoping and trying to buy two homes in the next two years but I’d love to have a mentor or someone I can lean on to ask advice or questions. Hopefully I meet someone at one of these conventions when I get back from deployment. 

Thank you again for your spot on advice. 

Post: Multi-Family (house hack) or SFR

Andrei P farleyPosted
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 2

Good afternoon BP Family,

Today I sat down and decided that I had really done enough research on potential properties to jump in the deep end and stay afloat.

My wife and I currently own two rental properties but due to being active duty military, We've had to move and living in an apartment can not be anymore annoying than offering on countless homes only to be out bid because the numbers don't work. I'm out of VA loan money and this will be our first actual conventional loan experience and it's because of this that we're thinking of doing a less than ideal home that we can fix up over time while saving for another more acceptable home to raise two growing boys in.

With all this said, I’m really trying to convince my wife to do a multi-family house hack as this would jump start a truly amazing compound effect without having to purchase a forth rental for a while.

Advice or suggestions to this idea or am I being over zealous? Is my wife being to conservative or am I not selling it enough? We’re a military family and we do have two boys so as you all have heard or argued yourself about safety or raising a family while running a rental could be hectic for sure.

Thank you all and Happy 4th of July weekend!

Hey All,

I'm looking for someone in the same area and it looks like some of these companies have good and some have really bad reviews. I was wondering since its been a while if anyone has some personal experience with one of these companies or did they change to a different companies? 


Thank you all for your time.

I was curious if it has to be LOCAL when choosing a CPA or Accountant? I'm in the Columbia, SC area and looking for someone to work with year round as well. 

Hey everyone, 

I think you all gave some food for thought and I will have to check out some of these ideas to see if they will work for me. Thank you again for your help. I have some time to think it over since its the holidays. 

Hey BP,

Hey all Pros/Beginners, I'm Andrei and I would like to spill my current situation to you all with hopes of directions or ideas on how to proceed. I'm currently active duty military but I always like to plan for the future or the after 20 years of service scenario. I currently own two homes with my VA loan rights and live in one.

The fork in the road is that I currently have retired military family renting out one home with $355 cash flow after expenses are paid but I want to buy another home to increase my passive income to of course purchase another home. This won't be as easy this time as I will need the standard 20% down for an investment property. My current house is being House Hacked of sorts with a family member paying a small portion of rent. 

I'm bone dry on funds and I know hard money lenders or raise funds but I am unexperienced as is but I continue to read, read and read to learn but I think I'm now in the "over thinking" phase of my learning experience. I think I've failed at finding the perfect contractors and real estate agents as I've changed 4 or 5 times now because unresponsive or just don't seem interested in helping me stay informed on deals with potential to a real estate investor. 

Point me in the direction and I will listen/learn as best I can. 


Happy holidays to you all and stay safe!


V/R

Andrei