All Forum Posts by: John Cornelius

Where in California are people having the most luck finding cashflowing properties? I'm in the central coast and it seems as the costs are simply too expensive to make the numbers work.

-jordan

@Anthony Wick lol can of worms. that’s a great point on the mention of employment. A lot of companies that are mom and pop in the surrounding oil and gas industry hire illegals simply because they are hard workers and don’t complain. The big corporations on the other won’t touch them . It’s kinda like comparing a land lord with a few properties to one that owns massive apartment complexes. There’s no way a illegal immigrant can become a tenant with the larger operations. But I’ve noticed illegal immigrants are the ones hired to maintain the upkeep and housekeeping of the property . They need a place to live of course . Our goal was find out from experienced investors can and if how can you make this work . Love the feedback. Thanks

Damn, your sister seems preoccupied with sex in the neighborhood. I could see how it would be uncomfortable, but how exactly does the neighbor playing pornography in the comfort of his own home next door make her feel "unsafe," as you mentioned? Is she afraid the porn is going to come sneaking through the wall to corrupt her innocence? Or is it a blanket assumption that anyone who could possibly listen to or watch porn in the middle of the night is only a half-step away from violent rape? If that's what your sister thinks, then she must live in a lot of fear.

I think this is confirmed by the second part of the story. A neighbor sees someone flogging the log outside her window and (horrors!) playing a blue movie on his phone. Again, there's a whole boatload of assumptions here based on this piece of hearsay, a police report is filed, culminating in the certainty that this is some kind of famed and notorious meat-beating serial sexual predator camping outside.

Your sister is being attacked by X-rated-material-watching monkey-spankers! This "horrible experience" (she listened to a neighbor's story and presumably heard fake moans and groans through a wall, maybe some dirty, dirty talk) is clearly causing her immense psychological harm.

Come on, Jimmy, let's get to the beef. What's really going on here? Did she take the ground-floor apartment and now wants something nicer in what we all know is a very expensive area? Because this sure as hell sounds like a lot of cheap camouflage for what you're going to go to the landlord of this 20-unit building with, a request to move higher. What, has an apartment opened up on the third or fourth floor of this building, maybe advertised for three hundred bucks a month more than what she's paying now, and she wants to break her lease and get in on the new place on the cheap?

I'm finding my suspicions confirmed by how the wording here just dances around this possibility so nimbly...I mean..."she would entertain looking at units there..." WTF, really? In the same building with the lurking nefarious committer of the Sin of Onan outside? With the neighbor whose malevolent smut makes her feel unsafe? Is the presence of a flight of stairs or two going to mitigate the dark danger she believes she's in from that source? Will the prospect of climbing a few stairs frost the neighbor's smoldering gonads in his shorts and rob him of his dastardly courage? And what about the lurking serial chicken-choker with his phone raunch? Your sister's still going to have to go in and out of the door of this building every day. Why stay in a structure which holds so many traumatic horrors for her? 

@John Cornelius one thing we did years ago when we were under some severe time constraints (I’m also in the tv biz and my wife is an accountant with a busy season), but still wanted to eat good food at home was actually a personal chef that came and cooked 5 meals in one day. Put them in the fridge/freezer, etc and she writes directions on everything for heating/cooking. Limited thought and time required, and a lot more practical. You supply the itemized list of things she needs (she brings her own cookware) and cleans up nicely. You’ll never know they’re there aside from the delicious smells when you come home. This worked well for when we needed it and you can do fewer than 5 meals if you prefer. I honestly don’t remember the price, but was probably around $500/wk. She did the shopping, too! Even easier now with all the online grocery ordering with pickup and delivery. I’d suggest a combination of of these strategies, but be efficient with your grocery shopping by doing it online, even at Sam’s! Or at least don’t go shopping while you’re hungry!