All Forum Posts by: Khloe Croswell

Novelty haunted house tourism realty as a short-term rental is actually a good idea, if you have the capacity to do some good marketing for it. 

Host an event highlighting the haunted stuff. have a dark metal band or weird steampunk band play the event. 

Cause a local media stir. The local TV stations usually eat that stuff up. Send them info about it well in advance. a nice package with a folder and a professional headshot and a printout of a press release for the event, with lots of great and interesting details that a reporter can easily report and even spice up as they do. Book interviews before the event on TV, Radio and in newspapers and magazines. Use controversy as a way to get that news clip shown on all of the news channels. Many of the most successful spirit-salespeople have used this method as it works well when done right.

Get some funky looking person, even a starving actor for $50 and free food at the event, to be the 'property manager' and say strange, funny phrases to the reporters.  

In short, when opportunity (and a ghost) knocks, Raise the Roof with an over-the-top haunted house party, and then Raise the Rent!

Of course, you could use it as a selling point to raise the rent because of your exclusive luxury spiritual embedded housing feature. 

If the current tenant stays and accepts the ghosts into their lives, then you have a haunted house inhabitant by brave souls who would not get out in the face of ethereal risks. And that's a powerful story for the future. 

 And if the current tenant can't afford it, they move out 'because of the ghosts'.  And then you have a legendary house.  And legends, are very easy to monetize.   

Either way, That's gotta be worth a few grand a month to the right 'ghost hunter' tenants who either enjoy them personally or exploit them professionally. or both. 

Congratulations!  You just won the equivalent of a spiritual real estate lottery. 

Now if you wouldn't mind sharing ... how did you land such a tenant and where can we find similar people to rent to?! :)

Hi,

I'm new on biggerpockets.

I am interested in real estate, and I'm quite experienced in cryptocurrency.

There are actually a number of cryptos that are very useful to me on a practical level. Things like paying rent, and paying for all the internal costs and many administrative costs I have to pay to run my small business. With crypto, i'm saving on a bunch of fees that way.  

Of course, there is tons of speculation in crypto. No doubt. But not all that's crypto is bad or a gamble. And not all speculation is bad. Some are much more realistic than others. Just like any other things you can put your money into, buying into the crypto market is a matter of doing your own research. and being thorough about it. don't invest in things you don't understand or don't care about. Invest in things you know and care about.

For example, in the real estate space, there are crypto coins already on the market like Swiss Real Coin (SRC) (launched), Atlant (ATL) (launched) and Chelle Coin (CHL) (soon to be launching their own ICO), that are all focusing on different kinds of real estate deals. The differences include geolocation, coin type or token type, the different types of things that can be done with the crypto, the sequence of operations carried out on the blockchain, the smart contract, etc. 

So even at the high level, although they're all real estate-based cryptocurrencies, they are not all the same. While SRC is all about real estate in Switzerland, ATL is all about real estate in the Atlanta area. And CHL is built to serve real estate across metropolitan areas throughout North America.

The crypto real estate space is really one of the areas in crypto where I see tons of development and interest among both investors and buyers on the market who are looking to save more than a little when they buy a property with digital money.

If you have any questions about crypto I'm happy to share whatever I know. I'm sure I'll have many questions about real estate that you all know the answers to.

~~~ Keep on Keepin' it Real (Estate)!

Wait ... why would you laugh? How do you know it's not a real ghost?

Seriously, just don't feed the beast. Just say "that's interesting", as was suggested earlier, a number of times already.

By the way, hi folks, I'm new here on this forum and this is my first contribution. The spirits made me do it!