All Forum Posts by: Dan Waugh

I'm waiting on a response about REIA-MD meetings but wondered if there were other avenues. Maybe unpublished groups? Maybe someone knowledgeable for dinner with me and my gf to get us started. Reading and writing is alot like texting .. Unless you're my gf who can read a paragraph per second .. Easier/faster to talk, to me. Trying to start 2016 off running ... Well, jogging.

 Rust is cancer for metal. If you're that adamant about keeping the shed as long as possible, pick a warm-ish day and beat the snow. Looks like it's been there for more than 4-5 years or so. Another season won't hurt, I guess.

I'd just hit it with the rustoleum rattle cans or roller pain't if it's not supportive of weight. As long as it's not raining, it'll take hours to set but it'll set. I'm a welder, so I'd probably heat it with a torch to set it faster but easy to burn the paint if you're close or slow. It'll be so out of date by the time it finally rusts through. I'd be more worried about the screws than the sheet metal. Those rust the fastest because it's corrosion "squared". They're standard metal screws, not galvanized, not painted.

 -- I laughed --

 I think this would make the situation way easier. I'll have to check this out for Maryland.

Glad for the post, Brandon. J Beard, awesome adaption that I'll be incorporating as a revision. I have a tenant that has a rocky background; good guy but always fearful FOR him, not OF him. "Wrong place, wrong time" kinda guy.

@Brandon M. and everyone - Something I've learned from childhood friends, ones that had a hard time growing up ... If you don't have an inmate number, you'll have a real hard time sending him anything. You'll have to call the jail and talk to an operator that may be able to pull up the logs for the 14th, call the correction facility (county or state) they sent him to and talk to another operator that would have his inmate number .. Call both CF instead of the locals. When in doubt, everyone keeps saying to send it and have it return or move on. Just depends on how much you want to put into it, I guess. I can usually find a friend in about 20 minutes.

Thanks James. Few weeks of crunching forums and we're hoping to start making it happen

I'm a landlord for my 1st house and always thought about how cool it would be to wake up to direct payments and search the estate and foreclosures ads of the paper to some coffee before stopping into a prospective project. They just started with all the brothers buying houses and flipping them, yelling at each other and always a set back before the commercial ... But, to me, that was interesting stuff. 

Eventually, my wife and I could see very obvious differences between us and went our separate ways. My next relationship was something different. We want out of what we do. We do what we do because it's stable and reliable work but we have more ambition. 

Mainly, financial understanding is something we can do well enough, together. She's a speed reader and I'm a doer. We are both on here and trying to get it together.

Any mentors out there?