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All Forum Posts by: Benjamin Timmins

Benjamin Timmins has started 13 posts and replied 186 times.

Post: New Tenant wants new carpet

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99

If they are that bad, replace them.

Post: Accounting software using a mac for rentals?

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99

Far as I can tell quickbooks and quicken don't have any specific programs for us. Does anyone?

Can't believe such a great resource is gone :(

Post: How do I buy a million dollar building?

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99

See if the property owner is willing to do a land contract, maybe with a ballon payment at the end of the contract.

Post: Declining your first applicant (tenant)~ Whew!

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99

Pain in the a.....

Post: Declining your first applicant (tenant)~ Whew!

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99

Once you've been in the business for awhile, and dealt with PIA tenants, any emotions quickly go out the door.

Post: What forms of payment do you accept?

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99
Originally posted by @Michael Julian:

Interesting video, but can you legally turn away a cash payment?

 Yes.

Post: DETROIT and MICHIGAN (#1 Defender answers questions)

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99
Originally posted by @Richard Dunlop:
Originally posted by @Benjamin Timmins:

Detroit is a wasteland. Newspapers and local tv keep trying to talk about how the city is coming back. Total nonsense. In most neighborhoods you can go out your front door at night without risking being robbed or worse. Theres a ton of neighborhoods that only have one residence occupied per block. City has even cancelled waste pick up and city lighting in neighborhoods cause theres so few people living in em that its not worth the cost/ city can't afford the cost.

That city will not come back in our lifetime.

Thanks for your participation in this thread!

Read through this thread I wish Detroit progress would slow way way way down, I live in Detroit and it is coming back way too fast.

Let me point out the critics in this thread's early pages are gone from the scene and I presume are no longer investing in RE.  I'm still here! The ones that told me there was no way to make money in Detroit.

But yes I'm glad you hate Detroit!

I will keep making lots of money as long as you and others hate Detroit.

 Has nothing to do with hate, has everything to do with reality.

Post: DETROIT and MICHIGAN (#1 Defender answers questions)

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99

Detroit is a wasteland. Newspapers and local tv keep trying to talk about how the city is coming back. Total nonsense. In most neighborhoods you can go out your front door at night without risking being robbed or worse. Theres a ton of neighborhoods that only have one residence occupied per block. City has even cancelled waste pick up and city lighting in neighborhoods cause theres so few people living in em that its not worth the cost/ city can't afford the cost.

That city will not come back in our lifetime.

Post: Newbie from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Benjamin TimminsPosted
  • Landlord
  • Utica, MI
  • Posts 190
  • Votes 99
Originally posted by @Travis Juntti:

Thanks all for the replies!  Benjamin, I understand that about the UP, i'm from Marquette, but still small in comparison with larger markets.  My wife is from Howell, and we would likely make a move to that area.  

 I used to live in Howell when i was a little kid, and my father owned the Bloated Goat.