All Forum Posts by: Joshua Tessier

What was the cost to dispose of and where the amazing pictures. Just think at 12 tires per year that's only $53 years and you would have gotten ride of them all for free lol!  I had a hoarder house with well over 20 TV's equally a pain in the butt.  Still I got nothing on +600 tires!

You have certainly been all over the place from software engineer to electrician to realtor.  Real estate is very forgiving over time but typically the deal dictates what you can do with it.  For instance not all deals can be house hacked (1 bedroom condo), not all deal fit the mold for a flip and not all small multi family will cash flow.  So your going to need to look at your budget and reserves.  That will be a big driver in what path you take.  For instance lets say you find a small multi that will cash flow so you take the jump walk through it talk to a mortgage lender and figure out do you have the reserves and cash to close when you hit that point make the jump.  I would put the flipping off until you have some experience as one bad flip can kill you! 

After what feels like an eternity of not posting with little progress I can report I’m finally back at it making progress. The insides are nearly completely. I have hard the last two smoke detectors in common areas hard wired and wrapped up most of the outstanding issues. I have three more windows to replace, a porch roof to install and a painting to wrap up but things are slowly happening as I commit more funds to closing this one out!

Sherwin William Shellac primer is a killer product and highly recommended. I was able to save this ceiling and bring it back!

Adding washer and dryers have really paid off as tenants love them in unit  this one wasn’t wired or vented so finally wrapped it up.

Kitchen wrapping up only a few more projects to close out but looking good!

Overall this ones been a nightmare but I’m finally approaching the finish line. I have begun the process of refinancing and I’m sure there will be no shortage of complications to close that out. Time will tell if I’m able to pull it off but for now I’m hopeful. 

Simply surviving, between evictions, vacancies, and lack of cash 2021 has been a tough year.  Back to work and back to basic's.  Adding more cash in and checking off the to do list feels even better after a brutal 2021.  Closing out the year with progress, momentum and a plan!  

As someone processing an eviction with a professional tenant I have inherited in NH.  I can say NH is certainly not a landlord friendly state.  I terminated her Month to Month tenancy on August 1st and we are now approaching November 1st and she's still in the unit 4 months later.  There has not been a single day missed between filings and motions on my side but tenants have the rights to keep objecting to any ruling from a judge.  This state has plenty of Legal aid representatives who sit right at the court house just waiting for tenants to come through the door looking for assistance. It's simply absurd and only results in increase costs for all tenants because of some bad apples.

I have had a few incidents with people dumping trash and breaking into units under construction.  I have found the Eufy 2c cameras to be the best.  This particular porch I installed both EUFY and Blink one on each side of the porch both facing doors.  In this case I was out to eat and the Eufy System texted me that it had motion and you can see in the video below the person entering.  the Blink system completely missed this.  The Blink system kicked on when the police showed up but without the Eufy I would be missing a lot of tools and plumbing.  The only miss is that you still need to charge these so that stinks but they are offering more solar options to charge and I'll be adding those on shortly.

If you go to retail channels you get retail prices.  You might want to start and try to get in with some local contractors who this is the stuff they do.  Sounds like you should focus on building your list of who to call when you need roofing, plumbing, siding, etc etc that are go to folks who have good pricing it takes a while but you'll get it.

Crap like this is what ruins bigger pockets for me.  One user saying send me a message and I'll send you magic sauce.  The next users says no don't message him just follow a link to my info. Meanwhile Bigger Pockets says no pay us and we will help you too.  Next thing you know your inbox is full of messages to connect.  

If you want to help the community stop trying to redirect folks to your private message and personal pages and just post the information for all to see. 

@Mindy Jensen

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@Mayerling Mejia

Why is paying $10k for a class going to get you out of analysis paralysis?

If your not comfortable with numbers build your own calculators and go run the numbers for every property in your target market right now. Run 100 of them on sold listings and current listings and get comfortable. Then ask the question again. Can I spot a good opportunity in this market?

How is spending $10k going to change your circle of friends?

You wanna spend time with folks doing this! you wanna mentor so why not befriend folks already doing it? Talk to folks and ask people in your area do you know anyone who owns multi family's in your area and ask to connect with them. Join a REIA meeting and go.

Do you have enough saved for a 20% down payment for at least two properties and this course? Taking the course will only help get you a little more comfortable. If you aren’t finically stable enough to purchase two properties on your own any course isn’t going to make money fall out of the sky. If you don’t have enough to get started on your own your just wasting 10k.