All Forum Posts by: Dave Ramirez

 They're a great company. You should lift definitely buy their service. I also go 65 mph in a 55 mph.

No free real estate website service. Nice try. I buy my domains for $10 or less and build them with WordPress for free. I spend $25 per month for reseller hosting but I have clients that pay between $1-3 per month for hosting and email. I make about $30 per month from these friends/people so my hosting is free. I have a guy who is a wizard at WordPress that will build your website for $7 per hour and his English is excellent. The last guy that used his service paid $600 for a state of the art website with MLS listings built in.

I use a Spyfu as well. I like the free and paid version. It is a great resource for SEO and PPC of your competitors. The PPC data is really insightful. I'll spend $6 per month in fiverr for a competitors full Spyfu report rather than pay a subscription. Don't buy keyword research off of fiverr. Trust me. I use longtailpro for kw research. I use it to build my kw for new blogs for the month. I use a SEO friends account. I pay him $10 per month for access. I get Monday afternoons. I also use Whatsmyserp.com to track 25 top keywords per domain

I use it because it's part of the system. It is not superior on any way. I get credit, address and criminal report. I don't look into the address report. If I see a landlord on the credit report I run. If I see a criminal report that didn't have something on there that I didn't know about I run. I had a 50 year old rent from me with a manslaughter from 1995. I hate tenants who lie more than tenants who made a bad decision 20 years ago. I have a guy who worked at a church with a landlord in his credit report and I let it slide. Never again. He was the most low down lyingest liar of all lie time. He wouldn't even claim his cat on inspection of the property.

I make them pay to a third party and I get a copy of the report. I don't get any of the $35 processing fee. If you have two good tenant options and both are represented by real estate agents you can start a bidding war on the apartment. We had a luxury condo list at $3000 and rent for $3250. Market rents were about $2800. I have been using cozy.co for a few years now.

@Mark Robertson good question about active or passive. I just assumed passive. If your going to own property please remember that slip and fall predators are looking for people with no mortgages to sue. Also bad tenants look for these types of properties as well in tenant friendly states. Investors also love sending absentee letters looking for a deal or money. I would lean towards passive because those issues above are the little headaches in active real estate. 

Join my mailing list. You can do your due diligence on the deal. I have turn key and rehab properties.

I would give my money to multiple (at least 10) hard money investors across the country. I would also invest in real estate crowdfunding sites. I also would invest in micro-bonding or peer-to-per sites like lendingclub.com If you give $1M to hedge funds and stock brokers it's locked in with transaction fees for years. A seasoned hard money company can get you up to 8% on you money and the money is liquid within 6 months. I get 9% with wefundflips.com Real estate crowdfunding sites have similar time horizons, higher rates of return (12%) and you can be liquid within a year. I recently made 14% in 8 months on groundfloor.us Lending club can have you liquid in 6 weeks and you pay a small transaction fee around .05%. The rates hover around 7% for a high risk managed account. I have an personal, IRA and LLC accounts on lendingclub.com $1M could be $60k of livable income easily with a 2% return on top. If you do buy property buy an existing IRA and put them inside the tax shield. Buy multi-units so your always cash flowing. My next big project is to buy debt at pennies on the dollar and collect on delinquent accounts. I need at least $2M to make this happen.

Pipedrive works with everything Podio did. We'd track thousands of leads in Podio. Now we only track people who took action to reach out to us on Pipedrive. We track mailing campaigns on Excel now. Just as cumbersome as moving from lead to contact in Podio.

Buy her a new fridge and agree to split the proceeds on the ghost fridge. I bought a enchanted dishwasher for $2000 last year.