All Forum Posts by: Joe Pearson

Thank you, Matthew!

My wife is on board, but only my name is on the title and I'm the only one landlording. She's dealing with fibromyalgia and her masters degree.

My concern with my dog isn't that I can have him in our unit, it's that I should. I'm worried that if it's an older house he'll constantly bark because he can hear everything in the other units.

-Joe

Hello!

I'm Joe Pearson, a full-time software engineer and a hopeful buy and hold landlord aiming for the Manchester/Nashua, New Hampshire (NH) area. My goal is to purchase a multi-family (probably duplex), or maybe a single family, in the Manchester or Nashua area by the end of 2019. Then, in Oct. 2020 I'm getting married! So, right now I'm working with a realtor and mortgage broker (aiming for FHA Loan) and planning a wedding.

I've been rapidly consuming podcasts, blogs and various other internet sources over the past few months and I've been hearing Brandon talk about introducing yourself here, so I thought I'd give it a go!

I think the thing I'm most terrified about is buying a multifamily and having my dog bark every few seconds at any noise because the houses in Manchester and Nashua were built in the early 1900s, so they probably won't have great sound proofing, but there are some older multi-families for rent that allow dogs, so I'm not sure.

Also, another fear is that we want to move out of Manchester/Nashua within the next few years and continue to rent out the multi-family. So, I'm just scared that I'm aiming high and will shoot myself in the eye, or worse my family. Oh, also we have ~150k student loans.... >.>

Anyone have a crystal ball?

-Joe

Speaking only from a tenant perspective (hopefully that'll change in 2019), as I said above, from 2014 to 2017 I was in Nashua, Amherst and Manchester.

Similarly to Ann's point, my current apartment complex's property managers didn't pay the water bill for a month, so we got notices from the water company saying that the water was going to be shut off in all 10 buildings!

-Joe

Charge tenants for water? Yeah, absolutely! I've gotten charged for water from 2014 - 2017 (2018 and 2019 my landlord offered to pick up the water bill and the pet fee for me to stay as a tenant).

-Joe