All Forum Posts by: Anthony Trollope

Still looking! 

Looking for any general contractors servicing the Brazoria County (Rosharon, TX) area of TX. I have a new construction project for a duplex I am working on and need bids. Please let me know if you can help or know someone who may be interested that you recommend. 

+1 for this.

Daniel, with no income that you mention and an all options mentality it seems like a good fit for you to try. Your work ethic, interest and passion to succeed will determine pretty quickly if you’re going to be successful. Better to learn that fast and pivot back into something else that pays well so you can start putting away cash for deals. You wouldn’t be the first investor who doesn’t like their day job but is working towards some day being rid of it.

Also, you’ll know from listening to GC that he doesn’t do or recommend anything in half measures. His minimum 32 doors first deal is quite the mountain for you to overcome without experience or capital. Finding partners by being in the industry may help with that. Frankly, I see GCs logic, but also some of that 32 doors minimum waffle is to paint an insurmountable picture and encourage you to think about investing with him instead.
 

An over supply of townhomes doesn’t surprise me, but would be interested to know if certain areas are bringing the averages down. Developers continue to keep building them just north of 610, in the Heights and Garden Oaks areas. That may be for different reasons, though. 

The warmer than normal weather we had last month no doubt contributed to some of these bullish stats.

Welcome to BP, John! What part of town are your rentals in? Just curious, do you think you’ll continue to lease your personal residency long-term or is that just a temporary preference? Some folks are big advocates of owning what you can rent out and leasing where you live, I’ve always wrestled with that myself.

Often no better mentor than the reading you can do here and the listening you can do to the podcasts. No question you have won’t have been covered at one point in time, you just need to be willing to find it. Best of luck.

@Juan Abreu Thank you for your service. Milk that no money down for all it’s worth!

What part of town are you in? Do you have a plan for what you’ll do a year from now when you move out?

Do you have a rehab budget in mind for the fixing up?

Great job, Kyle! Inspiring story.

I had a question about your HELOC terms. Mind if I ask how much equity you had in your primary residence? What was the process like getting it that done?

Sorry, Rawn, I was away on vacation in Europe last week. Very familiar with the deep dive; the BP podcast provides some sanity on my commute from Pearland to the Heights every day. Ugh. I think that's a really interesting idea! 

Looking forward to the next meetup.

Thanks, Mike. Said like someone who can obviously relate! :) 

Funnily enough, just two days ago I saw someone driving their Tesla behind me and it was obviously on autopilot. I need one of those!

Hope to meet you at one of the local meet-ups sometime. Cheers!