All Forum Posts by: Mark Fries

I use the CASH app on my Android phone with over 75% of my tenants works amazing...

I am a contractor in Jacksonville. my contact can be found at,   thehomemax dot com.  

yes. you are not obligated to accept section 8 in Florida.

phil pustejovsky's YouTube channel. he's in Florida and prolly the best in the US at this...

it's up to you. if it's a buy and hold...i wouldn't even pay the liens...if its a flip then yes pay at closing

hilly if you wire me a $2,000 transaction fee in advance I can run his information through my Trace program..

my best advice to find "buy & hold" deals in Jacksonville or prolly anywhere else is to "tune out the noise"... 1. find one good realtor that's all you need, and that's only to help you close the deals you MIGHT find on MLS. 2. real estate attorneys, brokers and appraisers honestly serve absolutely no purpose to helping you FIND buy-and-hold deals. I wouldn't spend any time trying to mingle and network with them in hopes to create viable leads. it's a good idea to have one attorney in your corner to help with things that may come up but that's about it. 3. networking has its benefits but I think it just holds people back from going out and taking action and finding deals. 4. driving for dollars and knocking on doors will give you far more deals than anything else that I have discovered. 5. find one decent title company and just stick with them. there's no need to try out different title companies because they all are sub-par and mediocre just find the best of the worst. they all serve the same function and can get your deals closed whether through MLS or driving for dollars. 6. keep really good notes with contact names and numbers so you can do continuous follow-up/letters. 7. in the last five to seven years I have had zero success utilizing wholesalers.. it seems they try to give me deals that are listed on MLS or other well-known resources that I already know about but they just add their markup on top of them and try to market them to me. I'm sure there's one rock-solid wholesaler out there that gets really good deals but by the time he gets them they're already gone and the odds of you being the one guy that he gives them two are slim to none. 8. local real estate investment groups that have weekly meetings- I signed up 2 years ago and went to like 7 meetings and it was a group of people that were stuck in analysis paralysis mode that mostly talked about the deals that they missed and that's not the kind of people that I chose to surround myself with. I'd rather discuss the four deals I got pending to close. I guess I'm just saying pick your path and stay laser-focused on it and over time the deals just start flowing in.

I seldom use MLS I might get 2 a year off of there most the time it's just people finding me. I do a tremendous amount of driving for dollars and knocking on doors. I do my own version of direct mail... which consists of me isolating 10 or 20 properties that I've identified and then going after them hardcore. I think networking is cool and all that but as far as results I haven't gotten much either from that..

the real question is why is your tenant doing this and you're not? maybe bring him on your team?... seems like he has a leg up on the situation/market?

i am deep in the Jacksonville buy & hold market. almost at 40 SFR now..

reach out to me if you need anything. I am in the trenches everyday!