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All Forum Posts by: Cristin Andrews

Cristin Andrews has started 12 posts and replied 62 times.

Post: STR: Where's my mistake in my numbers.

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

Have you ever been to Galveston? It's a terrible beach. As locals we go there because there aren't any other good options nearby but it's ugly and just bad in general and the undertow kills a few people regularly. I would never invest there. I'd find a proper beach instead. Highly recommend you visit before taking the plunge. 

Post: Austin 78705 Worth it to buy non cash flowing condo for UT Son?

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

@Account Closed I'm keeping my eyes open 

Post: Austin 78705 Worth it to buy non cash flowing condo for UT Son?

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

@Account Closed the HOA fees I have been seeing are 300-400 per month

Post: Getting urine smell out of hardwoods?

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

@Joe Abughazaleh thank you for your response. I’m really not sure if they are real wood or not as the house was bought with them already installed and I don’t know what to look for to tell. Will have to check into that. 

Post: Getting urine smell out of hardwoods?

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

Tenant has allowed 4 (non approved) dogs to pee all over hardwoods in house. Tenant is leaving soon and so I am looking for advice on how best to get the smell out of the hardwoods. It is overwhelming smell from the door. I haven’t been able to inspect it enough yet to tell if there is water damage also. Am I going to have to rip the floors out?

Post: Dropping out of High School.

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

@John Moorhouse

As everyone else has said. Stay in school. The world is not kind to high school drop outs. I saw your note that you have changed your mind so that is good.

Some ideas for you while is school:

- start a real estate club in your school or financial

- join (or start) your school’s Habitat for Humanity club. You can start getting building experience there. My son was in his high school club and very much enjoyed it

- start to build your network. This is the single best thing you can do for future success in any field

- continue to do your research and define your focus area

Good luck!

Cristin

Post: Real Estate Investing in Houston, TX

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

Due to the high property taxes and rising insurance rates and having 100 and 500 year floods every year or two - I have elected to invest outside of Houston 

Post: Why I am scared to be financially independent?

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

Big changes always come with fear. What would be the worst case scenario and could you cope with that if it happened? What is the likelihood it could happen? What risk mitigation’s could you put in place to keep it from happening? These are the thoughts that help me get beyond the fear of making big changes. Then flip it. What is the best thing that could happen? How likely is that? What can you do to help that scenario along?

Post: Project Management Software

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

GitHub/gitlab, Jira etc. all have bug/issue tracking options. It depends if you are looking for something just for you to track issues - then I would say just use excel or if you need to be assigning out to different task owners and having the system do the tracking and reporting

Post: 2019 Time Management Tips

Cristin AndrewsPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 66
  • Votes 30

My main one is having someone come clean my house. 

The other is to make sure I don't "touch" things more times than needed. Like when going through mail - I deal with it immediately instead of putting in piles for later.