All Forum Posts by: Clint Pearcy

 Thank you sir, though I think I already have it handled, I find this information very helpful for in the future.  I appreciate you. 

If you don't already know how, learning to do your due diligence on a potential property now would help ease your mind as you look for an investment.  I don't know anything about your area, but I do know to invest where it makes sense.  If you can't make anything work for you comfortably in that area, I would look somewhere else.  Have you looked into any turn key property providers?  Norada, Rent To Retirement, and Mid-South Home Buyers are a few that I know of. 

 Yes sir, I use email and text as well.  Unfortunately, they are not an option in this case, at least not consistently enough that I'm comfortable with it.  What do you do if your tenant has an emergency in the middle of the day here, but you're asleep there?

 Hey Tony, 

I need someone to watch my entire portfolio of two.  I have a couple of folks in mind to do what you mentioned, I was just wanting to see what suggestions would be from folks more experienced than myself. 

We'll only be gone 8 days, but hope to have some multiple week trips next year. I do have some people in my personal circle that I trust, but not that I feel would know what to do if something were to arise, I guess I could check with them. 

I thought about keeping it strictly email, but my tenants are used to being able to text me, so I feel they would know I'm out of town "spending their money". Emails would also rely on wifi access, which may only be in the evenings. 

Leaving them a list of trusted vendors was at the top of my list of options, but I didn't know they would wait that long for payment, I've always just paid them on the spot.  I'll discuss that with a few of them to see what they think.  Amarillo is pretty small town, so I don't distrust the vendors I use with credit card information, but I would much rather square it away with them when I return. 

Does anyone know if a property management company would be worth talking to just for short term?

Hello folks, 

For those that self manage, what do you do when you go out of cell service? My wife and I are travel junkies, but have not left the country since early 2020 for obvious reasons.  Prior to 2020, we had no responsibilities here at home preventing us from falling off the radar.  Now, we have two SFRs that we self-manage, and have scheduled our first international travel since 2019.  We will not have cell phone coverage, or even the option from what I understand, and will have very limited wifi access. 

I thought about getting with some of the vendors I normally use (plumbers, HVAC, etc...) to see if I could set them up with my credit card information, then distribute a vendor list to my tenants before leaving, though I'd rather they not know I'm traveling.   I found a post from 2011 regarding this topic, but ideas and technology have advanced since then, so I thought I would seek some fresh information from those that have had to deal with this situation. 

Look up Amarillo REIG on Facebook. It seems more active for specifically the Amarillo area, though there are quite a few folks from Amarillo on here.

@JD Martin you understood exactly what I was doing. Thank you for your reply.

@Tushar P. I do wonder if he meant the taxes on the sale, rather than his rental income.