All Forum Posts by: Major Robertson

Sean Dolan I absolutely disagree. If you're doing that much due dillagaence on a company you can do the same for an individual. If they have a lot of happy customers leaving them great reviews you can be just as sure as if a company had a bunch of great reviews. 

I've seen plenty of companies out there doing shady work because their clients don't know any better. I've seen great company's hire developers with poor abilities.

If the freelancer leaves you are not "hosed". As long as you have the source code you're fine. You can easily find someone to pick up and be just as productive as the other guy within the first hour. 

That's what I'm talking about, outrages prices companies charge. For a landing page and contact page I'd happily do it for less than $1,000. And yes I'm a professional developer who works at at large health care provider and has done work for other clients and I'm very busy. 

I've seen people get charged thousands for changing simple text on a website. Any freelancer should be willing to do that for free or for a few bucks depending on how much. You can be sure any company is going to charge an arm and leg for every little thing.

WIX is great but is more expensive in the long run. You're forced to pay their outrageous monthly fees if you want to keep using their platform. Plus it takes time. The trade off is that you don't have to hire anyone to make changes, you can do it yourself.

Cameron if you'd like me to develop something for you feel free to send me a private message. If you choose to go with a company that's fine too. Keep us updated here so we can help!

Are you looking for just a landing page and a contact form? Or are you looking for something more involved?

Do you plan on having the site on your own hosting platform or do you want to be as hands off as possible?

I'd recommend working with an individual rather than a company as a company will charge you FAR more. I know Investor Carrot is a popular one and I've heard it's upwards of a thousand dollars.

I'm a web developer for a living and I've just purchased my first REI. I'd be able to build out a site for you if you were interested.

At the least feel free to ask any questions I'd be more than happy to help. 

Erik Hitzelberger has his every third Thursday

KREA is the last Thursday of the month

Brett Kennedy is setting up some soon I believe

I'm assuming you want the master so you don't have to log into each account and see information but rather everything on a single dashboard?

Pretty cool. 

I'd like to be able to virtual reality around a potential house rather look through a few photos on Zillow.

I've always been business minded and always liked the idea of investments. Letting your money make more money just made sense to me. I've also always wanted to work for myself. 

I invest in revenue generating websites on a buy and hold basis mainly. The only thing that's held me back from pursing it further is financing. 

I've always been interested in real estate but never had the money to do it, I'm 21. I also hate the concept of throwing money away to live every month. But I came across Bigger Pockets and people talking about investing with low/no money down about two months ago and have been learning ever since. What tipped me over the line was the BRRR strategy. I liked the idea of gaining "instant" equity and being able to cash out after a year and invest it back into websites. (Websites have a much higher ROI - upwards of over 100% and are a great deal less work but you can't get loans for them)

I started searching seriously about a month ago and bought the second house I looked at (would have put an offer on the first but someone bought it that day). About a month ago I put in an offer on a house in old Louisville. I only had to put around $4,000 down. There was a down payment assistance program, and the seller paid for half of the closing costs. I will have a ton of equity in the house when it's all said and done. I'll be house hacking and living in it while renting it out to college friends. 

Sorry that was long. I really should make a thread of my own. Hope that helps feel free to ask any questions. But you're on the right track, go to meet ups you will learn a a TON and meet some great people who will help.

Eriks training group is very helpful. Great people and you will learn a lot. Brett Kennedy also posts meet ups here once in a while and those are great to go to as well.

Me as well

I'm assuming you are running out of the free version and are not considering purchasing a plan.

Google Drive offers 15 gigs free, more than 12xs you are at now if you're maxed at 2 gb on Dropbox. If you don't think you'll ever go over 15gb I'd just go ahead and make the switch. It make take a bit to get used to but it's not bad after a while. Sending large files via email is pretty easy when you have Google Drive too. 

If you really want to stay with drop box just create a few yahoo emails and sign them all up with drop box with your referral. Takes 10 minutes and you'll double your limit with 4 people (500mb each referral)

I was pretty bummed. Congrats on getting it. I was told they didn't even counter. If you don't mind me asking what did you end up getting it for?

I'd also like to see what you end up doing with that kitchen. Here's what it looks like for everyone else on this thread (hope you don't mind me sharing}

Also I was told that carriage houses or apartments over garages go at a premium and that people prefer it because there are no direct neighbors. You probably already know this but yours was rented out at 550 I believe.