All Forum Posts by: Jen Kurtz

Hey there fellow y-towner! This is such a great place to share and learn! The majority of my experience has been property management and subsidized housing, but I am working on the other facets of real estate that interest me outside of my 9-5. Glad to see you here!

I am on board with @Kevin Rowghani 

Definitely define your selection criteria. Make it exactly what makes you feel most comfortable and that will give you the best protection against risk. Then, stick by this. That will make sure you are not ever making exceptions for someone (because you think they are a good person, you're trying to help, etc). You're not a charity, and you have much too much to lose. Define what credit score you must have, income requirements, and everything else. Put it in writing. Preferably, if this applicant is serious enough to apply, make this criteria your very first page of the app and have a signature line there for them to acknowledge that they understand this selection criteria and that they will be declined if the results of this application show anything outside of your parameters. 

what a fun topic! I tend to favor the orange properties also because they are going to be landed on more often just do to the fact that people get sent to jail from other places on the board so when they get out they are going to roll and love to somewhere on that side. I love the green properties if I can get my hands on them, but otherwise I will try to get houses on the light blues, orange, and yellows first. The purple ones won't be landed on by anyone else until they have rolled around the whole board. Boardwalk and park place are so expensive to build on, so I'm happy with just tying up one of them so no one else can get the set and build :) So much is left to chance on how you roll though!! What a great game. I recently came across the Super Nintendo monopoly game at my cousins house. She didn't want it so I brought it home and have already played against the computer a couple times lol

Awesome!! Congrats to you, can't wait to hear more details too! Enjoy your well deserved celebration! :)

@Jered Sturm 

thank you for sharing- that is a very motivating and inspiring story of yours! Keep up the good work!

It is sad. Disinvestment due to economic and social issues. I bet a lot of those streets were beautiful in their prime. This is pretty much what you can see on abandoned streets within city limits of Youngstown, OH as well, just on a much smaller scale. 

Does anyone know how to change the year of what your viewing on google maps? Is there a tool on the app I overlooked?

100% that is me, I wish to work anywhere I choose, but I am not going to stay home all day. I will be out and about and connect with real people :)

I absolutely agree with you Matt! The streetcar suburbs are my dream!

I really like this topic. I loved the book written by Leigh Gallagher, which I presume indicated the title but if not- I highly recommend reading it!

I really believe a new urbanist movement is happening for many of the reasons noted in the book- smaller family sizes, couples opting to not have children, gasoline prices, costs of maintaining far flung infrastructure, etc. I dont believe this will be the case for EVERYONE or EVERYWHERE. Eventhough more and more often anyone can work from anywhere, I do believe more people are looking to interact, be involved, and be able to walk to places and such rather than being stuck our on some long country road. I, personally, can see the merits of that kind of quiet for a day or too but that is all I need. I dont want to go for a jog along a 55 mph road where there is no sidewalk.

As they say, to each their own, but I do think this is a slow movement that is perhaps somewhat reversing the "flight" from decades ago in some instances.

@Jerome Bell, Sr. and @Marcia Maynard , I am on board with your lines of thinking 100%. Your positions on the program mirror what I post about typically when someone brings up sec 8!