All Forum Posts by: Doug Merriott

@Thomas Weir Welcome to Bigger Pockets! Listening to the podcasts is a great way to expand your horizons. You are in a good area with a lot of upside from what I hear. Best of luck to you. Hope to see you around at some of the local REIA.

Thanks for the mentions @Eric Odum and @Robert Curls 

I would hope that any agents on here would be friendly to other investors!!!

I do like single family homes and duplex. 

@Natalie Davidson St Petersburg has a number of houses under $80k. They are all over the MLS and off-market. They are for buy and hold and you can even find them in passable, working class neighborhoods.

From my seriously limited knowledge of Tampa this does not look like a bad area, or at least not one that I have been warned about. @Kevin Cook might know a little more about that area. 

The one thing that must always be remembered is that YOU do not have to live there but our highest duties as landlords is to provide a safe, comfortable and well-kept home for someone who does want to live there.

Hello @Thano Genos ! Welcome to Bigger Pockets! I also look forward to when I can officially welcome you to the Tampa Bay area. I am rather partial to Pinellas, but I'm sure you will decide when you are here. Please let me know when you land and we will go have a coffee. 

@Greg Martin thank you for making the trip all the way from Brandon! It is a pure joy to see everyone that I have connected with on the site and to see the people that just happen to show up by searching Meetup or just stopping by the library. What I think is one of the best experiences is to watch someone new come to realize that they don't have to sit on the sidelines and watch, they can get in the game. I think the roundtable format really kick starts that thought process. 

Calling everyone from Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor and Dunedin. Calling all Oldsmar, Tampa and Brandon folk. Those of you on the beaches, Clearwater Beach, Indian Rocks Beach, Reddington Beach and Treasure Island too!. Calling north Pinellas, Port Richey, New Port Richey and Holiday (even though you're Pasco).

Let's get together and talk about building wealth with Real Estate. This is an open forum meeting. Members of BiggerPockets.com and non-members alike are encouraged to join us. There will be discussions on the issues that are important to you. So bring your knowledge, bring your questions, bring your success stories and bring your notebook.

It is helpful if you sign up on meetup.com too so that I know how many to set up chairs for.

See you soon

@Bob Ebaugh so sorry those first buyers fell through. 

That is awesome @Courtney Taylor !

great suggestions Courtney! I have been networking with my friends "just expecting" to get a listing but that has not happened yet. We were using printed flyers and hand delivering post cards. I like the door hangers, I have found them for less than the price of post cards. It is good to hear they are successful for you. I am going to get some printed and start that as my next campaign.