All Forum Posts by: Andre Lewis

Hello, I'm trying to find a STR (Short Term Rental) property manager here in the Little Rock, Arkansas area for one of my properties. It currently already has a long-term tenant in it and is also my primary as I've been house hacking it. I'm about to deploy soon and would love to hire and establish a relationship with a property manager to manage this property and keep this project going with the plans I have for the other rooms! To be clear, once I return from my deployment the property manager will stay hired on! As long as we both are happy of course. I have other properties as well and am still looking to grow, so there's potential for expansion and additional revenue for the PM if everything works out.

Thank you,

Lewy

 Travis,

Congrats on starting your meet-up recently. Once I am able to find someone to help me run the meet-up when I am unavailable, I hope to have the same results. Best of wishes moving forward and let me know if your ever in the Little Rock area!

-- Lewy

Thank you for the reply! I've already verified there isn't a meet-up here in either the Bigger Pockets or the ADPI community, but I do appreciate the recommendation. I'm more looking for people that can help me physically start one and keep it going since I travel so much due to being Active Duty. Thanks again for your suggestions and I wish you well!

Very respectfully,

-- Lewy

Hello everyone! My name is Andre and I'm trying to find people interested in starting a meet-up here in Little Rock, Arkansas. I'm military and travel often, so I'm really looking for one or two other people that can help me get this off the ground as the nearest one seems to be about an hour or more away. To be clear, I'm wanting to start a FREE real estate meet-up where fellow Little Rock (and surrounding area) investors can get together and network. Please let me know if anyone is interested!

 Well, it's a solution that I wasn't experienced enough to think of so I'm grateful you put it out there. 

Yeah, what's driving me crazy right now is that there are 4 real estate platforms that ALL report different data on this property. I know it's sounds dumb that I care but it's driving me nuts. Bigger Pockets shows it's a zero bedroom, 2 bath house haha.

Thanks again sir.

Unfortunately, Mason, it isn't that easy anymore. I own multiple properties and yes, you used to be able to do so on your own. However, now you aren't able to for whatever reason. The "edit" selection is still there, but once you go to submit the information a dialog box appears that tells you you're no longer allowed to. It seems Zillow had an issue with people falsely entering erroneous data.

As for the answer to your second question sir, even though I own it I'd like for the data on it to be accurately displayed. Bedroom, bathroom, square foot, lot size, etc. are all important when assessing the value of the property on these platforms and I like to keep track of the value in order to account for my equity. Of course, someone with your experience knows that, I only mentioned the information above because you asked. The second part is I don't like that 4 different real estate platforms all report different metrics on this property. That's more me being OCD though haha.

Thanks for commenting and let me know if you end up thinking of a way to resolve this!

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Andre T. Lewis

 Thank you for your help. Although I definitely herd your undertone when mentioning taxes and additions, some platforms are showing that this house doesn't have ANY bedrooms. So, I much rather the property show the accurate data if that means I have to pay more taxes. Again, thank you for your help sir.

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Andre T. Lewis

Hello everyone,

I've recently been fortunate enough to add a new property to my portfolio and I'm absolutely stoked about it. However, the data being shown across the MLS (redfin, zillow, realtor.com, bigger pockets property analyzer, etc.) is completely inaccurate. Is there a way to update the information on all of these at once? I've tried emailing Zillow but never heard back.

To elaborate, I had the home inspected and assessed by a professional prior to purchasing the property. The house is approx. 550 sq ft larger in livable space than advertised and has an extra bedroom and bathroom that isn't accurately advertised as well. As I mentioned above, I have the official report from the inspector I just don't know how to get all of these platforms online updated.

As always, thank you for any help. 

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Andre T. Lewis

@David Gotsill thank you so much for reaching out! I'd love to talk to you sometime. What is the best time frame for you? I work night shift but wake up before have to go to the gym. Or maybe you'd be willing to give me a small amount of your time for a phone call on the weekend? Anything you offer I'll be appreciative of for sure.

In your experience are people just using hard money lenders as financing then? Is there no way to use traditional loans?

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Andre T. Lewis

Hello everyone!

        I'm hoping to find someone with experience in purchasing property in different countries. I currently live in Japan and am interested in purchasing rental property here. I have looked at Proforma's and property analysis, so I'm not just buying blind. I've also established connections and report with two agents here.

        My issue comes to financing. I'm American and am having a hard time obtaining a loan to buy property here in Japan. Since I'm not a resident, the banks here won't provide me a loan. I do already own a few rentals in the states so I'm not a complete rookie when it comes to obtaining traditional loans. Does anyone here own property in a different country, and if so how did you finance it? Thank you in advance for any help you guys are willing to offer. 

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Andre T. Lewis