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All Forum Posts by: Ethan T Williams

Ethan T Williams has started 8 posts and replied 19 times.

Post: New home Construction

Ethan T WilliamsPosted
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I am planning to act as a project manager with a GC in the next 6 months on my own home building project. I have grown up with a craftsman father and have my fair share of experience with a variety of projects so I would like to offer my labor as much as possible to the project so that we can reduce cost.

Any recommendations on this?

Note. I am aware certain things I can do are worth having a professional do (ie. dry walling, electrical installation and final configuration, main plumbing, some etc) and I plan to save myself time and money by subbing that out.

I also understand some or a good number of GCs do not like to work with DIYers so I am entering this with that knowledge.

I am looking to setting up a Mobile Home rental lot on a plot of land here local. After looking on the zoning site for the county I believe it would be advantageous to resist entering the designation of a Mobile Home Park as the overhead dramatically increases, and that would allow more development into this small community. Now aside from verifying that the site can be used for mobile homes and that I can lease to X number of units, would the only other thing to preemptively check would be perc testing and then cost of water, sewer and electric connections?

Post: Researcher needed - part time

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@Jason Gurvitz I am interested in this position. I have much to offer any organization in the tech space which lends itself well in the research and development domain as well.

I'm specifically talking about laws regarding the access to information from public services and information covered under public domain.

I am attempting to form a pipeline for leads in a nearby region of my state. I have contacted one utility district that happily supplied a 'Cut-Off' or 'Delinquent Accounts' list. After emailing, and now calling, two others notified me that this is against the law. I immediately thought this was a load of...something... mainly because if Codes Offices/Commissions are typically so fast to hand out public records requests for codes violations, I assumed public utility delinquency would fall under similar domain. 

In my research, at least here in TN, I believe that Public Utility Records are not protected under any Privacy Laws. However, to be fair it may violate the individual Util. Depts. Privacy Policy (that is another discussion to be had).

Also, I believe by this potentially falling under 'Public Records' (as long as it is a Municipla service, not Corp) then by denying my request for this data, they are actually. in the wrong.

Does anyone have any experience in this?

@Ross Dallas I am also in the Nashville, TN area. I am a Software Engineer looking to break into the REI space both investing and finding where I can help solve problems through automation. I will add you on here. Let's sync up!

@Joseph Porter Hello there and thank you for your service. I am a technologist in the Middle-TN area (born and raised) and I am a budding investor myself. I am in the midst of creating a lead-generation pipeline for wholesaling as I am in the pursuit of gaining my agents license. I would love to connect and grow my network along side you as well. 

I am a professional software engineer and infrastructure specialist and have recently taken a liking to Real Estate Investing and Real Estate Operations. With my background, I am certain I can take any problem which you want solved or automated and provide a solution for you.

Do you want to automate the click-paths you are tired of doing daily or weekly?

Do you keep facing the same problem due to a system that isn't accommodating the scale you are growing to?

Do you want to find ways to be as hands-off as possible, and achieve closer to a '4 Hour Work Week' ?

I want to talk to you and I want to help you. As I am just getting started with this I will be charging lesser upfront and with more business will increase as clients come aboard. I have a few clients at the moment that I have assisted with CRM integrations to popular automation tools like MailChimp and Twilio. 

Upon interest I will share resume, LinkedIn, and sample work.

Interested? Let's Talk today!

Post: Looking for a web person

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Hello Alan, I am a DevOps Engineer in the Nashville, TN area with ties in the REI world. I would love to chat about what you are wanting and how I might be able to help you out. Thanks!

I am curious for sake of gathering an inventory, what all services, products, interfaces people are using.

I have looked into Twilio, Lob, CallRail, Podio, Buildium, and a few others. I just want to see what people find useful.

Does REI use Slack very much? Google Voice? Shopify? Campaign Monitor, MailChimp?