All Forum Posts by: Cliff H.

Welcome @Katie Lotsberg! Right across town by the seacoast. 10+ years investment, but still new(ish) to region. Happy to share with I know on local meet ups and get togethers

Hi Ray, good luck with the meeting. Cannot make next week due to work and closing on an investment up in Maine, but any real estate attorney / asset protection firms you recommend who are licensed in both NH and ME? Thanks in advance. Moving quickly so hope to catch up with someone within the next week. 

Out of state for work this week but look forward to catching up with everyone at a potential follow-up January event if you have it. 

Hi Hilary. I work with a lot sites. Here's my top issues that are keeping me from joining as a pro:

Terrible mobile app
Why does the prompt need to come up every time I launch on iOS? Why does the search assume I'm one and done on search results? 

Desktop-only website
Required navigation at the top of the screen requires submenus, making it inaccessible from touch-based, tablet or phone browsers. This cripples my use of the site from iPad or other tablets that I use daily in my R/E work. 

Confusing Forum Categories
For a beginner-based real estate site there are far too many categories and presented in a flat hierarchy rather than walking the user through progressive choices. Feels as if categories grew organically but then never actually were revisted and refined later on. This makes it hard to browse content to find what you are looking for. 

Hard to Connect
I need a home inspector in Detroit. How do I find him/her? Top level categories are little help in knowing where to begin finding qualified referrals. I don't need an ad, but given the strong communiy it would be good to be able to filter through the flat list of posts in the contractors or professionals forums to find folks who are local and have been actively posting off the forums. 

That it for now. Love the podcast. Find the forums have great potential, but obscured by sprawling sub-categories and complex navigation. 

Thank you @Alex Cole. I will drop them a line!

Hi folks. Getting into the rental market in Orono/Bangor area and would love any recommendations for local home inspectors and property management companies. I received a recommendation for Hughes Property Management in Bangor, but cannot even get them to return a call, which pretty much takes them off the table for handling tenant issues. 

Appreciate any local insight/referrals! 

Thanks for compiling @Christine Kankowski. My realtor has also used https://www.signix.com for contracts, which I loved because I did not have to download any app and seemed to work a bit better than Docusign in my experience. 

Worth mentioning is that some of the online property management systems do integrate. Have not had a chance to give them a shot yet, but assuming it's just a affiliate deal through the provider, with integration into lease doc storage system each provider already has. 

This will be the first year I try this out with tenants, as a means to fully automate from ad, access, contracts, and collection. Great time to be a landlord. 

Hi Stephanie Southerland I have family down in myrtle beach so down there quite a bit. It's definitely seasonal, with big rushes in summer and various "bike weeks" and such. Depending on the area you are looking the immediate problem I could foresee is just that there so much supply being built up and very little traffic in off peak times. Granted I have never run the numbers on investment properties, you take a popular place like Broadway on the Beach and it's a virtual ghost town after October 1st.

Thanks for the tip on Mashvisor Sebastien Hitier. Created a trial account, setup a quick WebEx with them, and they offered to add in my search area almost immediately, with plans of rolling out nationally in a few months time. Great idea and service for STRs.

Just stumbled on this issue myself in looking at lower priced markets. I can do certainly do cash deal, but then I'm locking up funds for a year before I can cash out refi. Chris England did you ever end up finding a lender to work with your lower loan amount?