All Forum Posts by: Joshua Beall

Hello,

We have a handful of documents that we are regularly having clients sign, and we currently have to manually prep them and send them through DocuSign. All we need to prep them is the client's name(s) and email(s).

I would much rather just send the customers a link to a web form, where they put their name and email, and then it spits out the agreement, which they can sign electronically. This would save us from manually prepping hundreds of documents per year.

DocuSign has a feature to do this called "web forms," but they have no pricing, and after several calls and support tickets, they still can't tell me what it costs or how to sign up for it.

In general, DocuSign seems like a big company that doesn't care about "little guys" like me--they want to sell their product to big companies that have hundreds or thousands of users. This experience just reinforces that perception. I'm not ruling them out--but I'd love to know what alternatives I've got.

Anyone here care to recommend a DocuSign alternative that supports web-form driven signing, where I don't have to prep the document for each signer?

My gut response is to say "let's meet up and do an exchange--I'll hand you the check, you hand me the lien waiver."

@Jessica Derr, welcome to Bigger Pockets, and welcome to the area! And congrats on kid #2! We have six kids ourself, so I'm familiar to the demands you're dealing with now that you've crossed from one kid to two :-)

I'm an agent and investor myself, and I'm working with investors right now who are coming to the area specifically to invest. I think you're in a great location to get started investing. I've got contacts in all the areas you mentioned, as I'm sure do Larry, Aaron, and Bill.

I'd suggest you try and find a deal that suits you as a first step. What are you looking to pick up for your first investment? How far away do you think you are from buying? Are you going to go with residential, personal lending, or commercial? Are you looking to buy turnkey or put some elbow grease into it?

I'm aware of a couple off-market deals that I've dug up for other investors, and I know a local investor that owns over a hundred of units that he'd consider selling, all the way from bare land, to single families, to multi-units including several apartment buildings. Probably won't be any amazing deals, since he's not under pressure to sell, but might be worth a look if you exhaust what you can find yourself. Give me a call sometime if you want to chat.

Hi Jose,

I live in Charles Town, and I use Brett Hersh of HBS for my taxes. He also does bookkeeping. He owns some rental property, although I'm not sure how much. Here's his website:

https://bretthershea.com/

Out of curiosity, where are the properties you bought as rentals?

  -Josh

Hey Jason,

I've been happy with Brett Hersh:

https://bretthershea.com/

He's also one of the two guys behind overnightaccountant.com

  -Josh

Currently have 4 separate units in my portfolio, available for sale as a package or individually. I'm liquidating my holdings in Hagerstown so I can buy more locally--it's just a little further away than I'd like to manage. I'm a licensed real estate agent in VA, WV, and MD.

217 Winter St, Hagerstown MD 21740 Rented for $850/month, tenant moved in Dec 2015

514 W Church St, Hagerstown MD 21740 Currently rented for $765/month, tenant moved in Oct 2016

344 N Mulberry St, Hagerstown MD 21740 Vacant, previously rented for $850/month. Ready to rent.

440 Cook St, Hagerstown MD 21740 Vacant, previously rented for $1050/month. Finishing up turnover repairs as of early Feb, 2018.

Contact me at 304-504-7998 or at [email protected] if interested.

Hi All,

I've got a few lots in a mountain subdivision that's west of Winchester, and I've got a lead on a motivated seller who has another 12 lots he'd like to either sell as a package or work a deal with a developer to build them out.

Average selling price of a 3 bed 2 bath home that's 10 years old or new Shawneeland seems to be about $190k. Here's a list of those sales in the last year. It's a modest but very nice little community. Here's a lot I have listed, along with some shots of the neighborhood.

I'm looking to connect with a builder who operates in that area and discuss putting some homes on these lots, rather than just selling them outright. Can you recommend anyone, or is this an area you operate in?

Thanks!

-Josh

ok, keep us posted! 

@Ken Williams, how did it go?

Do you mean Shepherdstown in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or West Virginia, perhaps? I'm not aware of a Shepherdstown in Virginia, and I just did some searching and couldn't turn up a town by that name. USPS.com doesn't recognize it, and Wikipedia only lists the three towns I mentioned.