All Forum Posts by: Brandon Huddleston

@Horton M.

Oklahoma City started the maps project about 20 years ago to redo the downtown Oklahoma City area. It's known as bricktown. today we're actually opening centennial Park which is kind of a big deal around here if you've ever been to San Antonio with the Riverwalk we've got something like that going on. I'm sure you can get online and check it out if you look Oklahoma City bricktown maps project lot of good stuff going on around here.

No Yukon is good. this was on the south side of Oklahoma City this is a pretty rough neighborhood but the city just completed a big maps project here for our downtown so I think the whole area is going to turn over. Im trying to find a deal in the area 

Hi Desmond 

In in Oklahoma seamless gutter guys are getting about $5 a foot for 5" and in goes up for there.

I thank this is a good way to get so remodel work seems like some fascia/soffia work would be pretty easyto work in. good luck!

Hello, BiggerPockets family! My name is Brandon and I've been working as a remodeler/GC for about 18 years now. I read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a little over a month ago and it has totally changed my world. So I've decided to find a house of my own to flip (actually I would like to brrrr). I've been scouring Zillow, looking through Facebook marketplace, driving for dollars and I thought I found the perfect property. It's a run down two story with a detached garage apartment in the back covered in vines - I should post a pic. I watched some videos on how to track down landowners and found out the guy lived just down the street. And in all my newbie excitement, I go knock on his door thinking, "surely he'll be excited to have a buyer come by and offer him a cash price for his house". That was NOT the case my friends. He was mad. I mean really mad. 

He came to the door ready to fight me and quickly made it clear he had no interest in selling his house. While he's ranting about people coming by every day bothering him about his house I'm thinking "Oh crap, what am I going to say next?". I just listened to podcast 260 that morning (that's the one with Chris Voss the former FBI negotiator) so all I could think was "mirror mirror mirror". That's what I did for about 5 minutes and then the guy said, "I feel like you're just trying to pump me for information, like you're trying to work me!"  BUSTED! I made one last feeble attempt to connect by offering to partner with him in the remodel/flip of the house to which he replied, "The last guy I partnered with, I shot in the head!" 

So, I tried to end the conversation as politely as I could by thanking him for his time and apologizing for bothering him. Now, it may sound like I would be deterred from this whole situation but actually, I'm more excited than ever! I'm going to make it a point to stop by and talk to that gentleman at least once a month and see if I can build some kind of rapport with him. He seems lonely and disappointed with life. If nothing else maybe I can make a new friend or maybe this will at least leave some clues to what happened to me if I keep bothering him. 😀

What was your worst experience when trying to make an offer?