All Forum Posts by: Jorge Borjas

@Greg Byers 

Welcome to BP! Make sure you look for and attend the many REIA clubs and meetings around the metro area if you want to meet like minded people in person.

Hi BP colleagues,

Does anyone have experience dealing with Cogo Capital? They are a hard money or private lending company. I recently contacted them and they spend a lot of time trying to sell me on their mentoring program that costs an arm and leg. They seem like the gurus that want to coach you for a fortune. I think the CEO is Lee Arnold. Has anyone gone through that program or other related programs? How have your dealings been with them. I definitely don't like the idea of putting $10k up front for a program that is not guaranteed to work. Your thoughts and advice please. Thanks!

Hi @Randi Williams, welcome to BP and Real Estate Investing! You're on the right track by educating yourself. Educate yourself like crazy and take advantage of all the resources that BP has to offer. The podcasts are fantastic and you can use them as a weekly training course and inspiration. Definitely make sure you start taking action right now as you learn and not let the moment pass you by. It's easy to gorge yourself with info and not do anything about it. All the best!

@Kevin Dickson Hey man! Welcome to the community. You're heading in the right direction by listening to the podcasts and reading the UBG. The podcasts serve like a weekly course that provide you with tons of knowledge that you will need to get started and have success. Keep that up. Also, I would recommend buying some of the books offered here, specially the Book on Flipping Houses by J Scott:

https://www.biggerpockets.com/store

I'm reading that one right now and it's awesome. If you want to do other things besides flipping, you can find other great books there.

Set up key word alerts so you can know what's going on around Atlanta.

All the best man!

I'm putting together a Rehab Estimate Spreadsheet with most common rehab items, quantity entry column, unit price, total per item, etc. Can anyone refer me to contractors in the Atlanta, or better yet, Cobb County area that can give me cost per unit estimate? I will send the spreadsheet to them once we get in touch.  Thanks!

Welcome! Thank you for your service to our country. I trust you can get some of it back through Real Estate investing. 

Check out these different tools and resources to get you started.

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All the best!

@Stan Sugarman @Allen Thomas Thanks guys for sharing valuable information regarding this part of town. I was driving through East Point recently and noticed several recently rehabbed houses and other flips and many potential flips. A lady that lives there mentioned that some areas there are infested with gang activity, but where she lives wasn't too bad. So there are some decent areas around north East Point.

@Miguel Mejia Welcome to BP! and welcome to RE investing. Michael and Dave have already given you some great links to get you started, but here are a couple more key links for you:

Weekly webinars with Brandon Turner. These are super informative, and they serve almost like a weekly coaching.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/webinar

I would also look into investing some $$ into books. Here is the link to the store.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/store

Get familiar with the website and start making connections. Make sure you take action as you learn and not just fill yourself up with information.

All the best!

I've experienced that to a small degree, when I thought a bathroom design looked fantastic, i.e. modern, slick, impressive, but just to hear the majority of women say it was too manly or just not like it the way I did. So lesson learned. Just because I like it or think it's creative, doesn't mean it's going to increase the chances of more people liking it as well, especially for the niche I want to pursue at the beginning (130k-250k ARV in Atlanta MSA). Thanks for your input J. Very much appreciated. Loving your book btw!

@Nick Fitzpatrick Yes, Nick, great breakdown. I've seen a lot of LLC held property just west of English Ave, near Washington Park. Great strategy.