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All Forum Posts by: Bret Rubash

Bret Rubash has started 5 posts and replied 17 times.

Post: Just Moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

I finally made my move here to Fort Wayne, Indiana 3 weeks ago, I am looking for work and I think it would be a good opportunity to try and work & learn the basics by working with someone or a company. I am interested in Buy & Hold houses & small 2-4 multi family duplexes for steady long term income, as well as buy & sell projects for more "right now" profits. I am new to all of this I've done a little research. I am a very fast learner however, I learn the fastest by doing it. 

Anyone have any experience working with anyone here in Fort Wayne area that is ethical & has a good reputation? 

Anyone reading this post have any possible job openings or willing to hire me here in Fort Wayne doing all this to show me the ropes?

If anyone is interested in hiring me message me on here & I will get back to you. I will make a post asking on here if anyone has had any positive or negative encounters with you, It is very important to me to have a good reputation, If I work with someone with a poor reputation it would also ruin my own and bad reputation = less revenue, I am almost 30 years old and my life needs to make a change and I need to finally start a career I am sick of being in dead end ware houses no matter the title you have, There is no money in it. My goal is to make 100k / year if i can get above that then that's good but that is my goal.

I have made 10k/ week in the past doing industrial construction but moving state to state isn't fun & construction kills your body. Please let me know on here if you, yourself is looking for someone or you know of someone that is. Someone that is ethical and successful, If you want my Resume I will provide you one Via E-Mail I have a lot of different things under my belt just nothing related to REI. I have no schooling or money to invest I am starting a new life I just moved here from Utah.

Thank you for your time, 

Bret Rubash

Post: New here, in search of information to start a career

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

Thank you I will look into them !  Wow so many Abbreviations & terms! I had no clue there were that many terms.

Post: How can I become an investor? & start Buy & Hold

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

Yeah I want to try and work under someone for starters I might be able to get some contacts too, I have a cousin in Fort Wayne, he was doing real estate there when he was about 25 years old he had multi million dollar deal going on building a whole area of like 250 homes for low cost living, but the lady he was working with at the Bank was some Russian woman or something, & she stole all the money when the deal was going down and left the country and my cousin was under fraud investigation by the FBI that got dropped after 5 years or so, But i'm sure he knows some of the locals that are reputable. 

Cool that your from Thermopolis, WY I used to live in Shoshoni haha

Oh idk they told us it was called Sellers Finance.

our house was worth $154,400, We owed $142,500, They took over our payments left the house in my moms name (our probate was already finished), And they gave us $5,000 and agreed to pay the 2 months house payment while we move out saving us 2 months payments additionally. They told us normally they don't pay any money down at all. That they just take over the payments, remodel the house doing small flips and rent it out for more than the house payment. Our payment was $980, Rent in my neighborhood is $1,300-$1,350 / months thought there is a house identical to ours the owners are renting out just the basement for $1,400 / months idk how they found such stupid people to rent lol $1,400 for half a house lol

Been Reading some more: its about " Subject To " investing if anyone else wants a read while we are on topic. Link below.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/03/26/subject-to/

Post: How can I become an investor? & start Buy & Hold

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

Will do Appreciate the help I'm reading that free beginners book now. 

Post: New here, in search of information to start a career

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

Thank you, Much appreciated @Dave Visaya, I am reading other peoples posts trying to learn, I need to learn the Acrimonious & Terminology is there a place I can learn all that? 

Post: How can I become an investor? & start Buy & Hold

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

29 years old Looking at becoming an entrepreneur starting my own business, Buying homes Via Sellers Finance, We sold our home through sellers finance it was a breeze. I asked how they do it they said they aren't part of real estate but are investors. I was interested in this soon as I heard it & did basic research how how it works.

We couldn't afford our house ( Mother, brother & his wife ) after my father passed away, So they took over our house payments and gave us $5,000 to relocate, also gave us 2 months to get out and they also pay the house payment those two months saving us $2000 more while we pack & move, We just have to catch utilities up and transfer them into their name and they will flip the house, remodel it and rent it out for $300-$400 more than the house payment which is making them profit. our house payment was $980 / month 3.25% interest rate and rent in my neighborhood is $1300-$1350.

I want to do this as a career, I have no career or schooling, I done lots of other jobs warehousing, production supervisor, construction, but have nothing really that is for a good resume alot of the jobs I got cause of my dad knew people and I did important jobs that someone my age just doesnt do I had on job training for jobs that them guys went to school for 10 years for.

Anyways I'm trying to learn how to make my own business, I have no money for school and we Have not relocated yet, We are moving to Fort Wayne, IN with my aunt temporary till we save money Then We will move some where warmer, I even tried to google search " good places to do real estate" didn't find anything really, I want to make sure I end up somewhere I can do this business successfully, Looked at Florida looks like its a gamble with INSANE fluctuating home values based on hurricanes, Any ideas of good places for real estate? We signed the final documents just over a week ago So we have 2 months to move.

Any information you can send me on Sellers Financing to try and use this as an investment will be much appreciated any other off topic materials that can be related such, As how to find houses being foreclosed on or where the taxes not been paid on will help too ( I beleive there are lists you can buy?) I plan to target homes that are having financial troubles as we are, So i can help people, Make faster transactions & make a profit while i do it, Just like they helped us. It was a win-win situation!

Other material might be useful is how to deal with probate getting all that worked out as a buyer through sellers finance if the seller is going through it & what companies to work through as a 3rd party company that deals with making the house payment and homes title, The people that bought our house goes through a company called Escrow Spec. Contract Servicing. They sent me an email showing this months payment been paid by them.

Also how do you guys get the money for the first initial investments? Im starting from scratch in the hole right now, I know there are investors that invest in other investors and things but how I find them & How much interest they normally charge to pay them back over how many years? I have bad credit so I cant get a bank loan unless investment loans are more easy to get ?

Are there any schools that teach this sort of thing in particular that I want to do that anyone can mention? I would like a good reputable school not some local that no one out of state knows about.

Sorry this was such a long read, Thank you for any information anyone provides. I am a very fast learner everything I do i learn it myself, I have a smart business way of thinking, Example when I see signs & advertisements I dont see the ad liek most people I see the colors they used, the placement, & design then think about why they did it that way and what I would of done, I seem to do a deep thinking on everything around me like that. Anyways anything helps information wise Thanks tons!

~Bret Rubash

Post: New here, in search of information to start a career

Bret RubashPosted
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • Posts 17
  • Votes 1

29 years old Looking at becoming an entrepreneur starting my own business, Buying homes Via Sellers Finance, We sold our home through sellers finance it was a breeze. I asked how they do it they said they aren't part of real estate but are investors. I was interested in this soon as I heard it & did basic research how how it works.

We couldn't afford our house ( Mother, brother & his wife ) after my father passed away, So they took over our house payments and gave us $5,000 to relocate, also gave us 2 months to get out and they also pay the house payment those two months saving us $2000 more while we pack & move, We just have to catch utilities up and transfer them into their name and they will flip the house, remodel it and rent it out for $300-$400 more than the house payment which is making them profit. our house payment was $980 / month 3.25% interest rate and rent in my neighborhood is $1300-$1350.

I want to do this as a career, I have no career or schooling, I done lots of other jobs warehousing, production supervisor, construction, but have nothing really that is for a good resume alot of the jobs I got cause of my dad knew people and I did important jobs that someone my age just doesnt do I had on job training for jobs that them guys went to school for 10 years for. 

Anyways I'm trying to learn how to make my own business, I have no money for school and we Have not relocated yet, We are moving to Fort Wayne, IN with my aunt temporary till we save money Then We will move some where warmer, I even tried to google search " good places to do real estate" didn't find anything really, I want to make sure I end up somewhere I can do this business successfully, Looked at Florida looks like its a gamble with INSANE fluctuating home values based on hurricanes, Any ideas of good places  for real estate? We signed the final documents just over a week ago So we have 2 months to move. 

Any information you can send me on Sellers Financing to try and use this as an investment will be much appreciated any other off topic materials that can be related such, As how to find houses being foreclosed on or where the taxes not been paid on will help too ( I beleive there are lists you can buy?) I plan to target homes that are having financial troubles as we are, So i can help people, Make faster transactions & make a profit while i do it, Just like they helped us. It was a win-win situation! 

Other material might be useful is how to deal with probate getting all that worked out as a buyer through sellers finance if the seller is going through it & what companies to work through as a 3rd party company that deals with making the house payment and homes title, The people that bought our house goes through  a company called Escrow Spec. Contract Servicing. They sent me an email showing this months payment been paid by them.

Are there any schools that teach this sort of thing in particular that I want to do that anyone can mention? I would like a good reputable school not some local that no one out of state knows about. 

Sorry this was such a long read, Thank you for any information anyone provides. I am a very fast learner everything I do i learn it myself, I have a smart business way of thinking, Example when I see signs & advertisements I dont see the ad liek most people I see the colors they used, the placement, & design then think about why they did it that way and what I would of done, I seem to do a deep thinking on everything around me like that. Anyways anything helps information wise Thanks tons! 

~Bret Rubash