All Forum Posts by: Mike Higgins

Do most of you work only if you have this agreement or are you also willing to just work with someone as a customer?  It always seems like a tricky thing to bring up (being new) and didn't know if there were any tips any of you veterans use.   Thanks. 

@Trevor Ewen would the same be used when looking at areas to flip vs buy and holds?  I was looking in Atlanta (where the last podcast guest was from) and her market had a much higher multi family number and less home ownership. Which made sense for but and hold 

while listening to a podcast I came across a great quuuuiiiick TIP from a guest about using the information on the census for finding out about home ownership and multi families in certain areas. How have some of you veterans or other newbies utilized this information and what other tools are great for research?  Happy discussing!

Something I was just thinking about as I read another email from Redfin telling me that another house was off the market (not sold). I know in a podcast I listened too on BP yesterday, there was talk of direct mailing and driving for dollars vs using the MLS because the competition would be slightly less. Would These homes that come off the market be worth it to look deeper into it and drive by and potentially just deal with the owners. I'm sure this is not new news, but I'm just getting my mind thinking and would love to hear thoughts.

@Account Closed I'm glad to have another fellow Packer on the site.  Let's connect when you have a chance. With regards to the flips, I don't have a specific area of town. Our area is unique with Howard and De Pere etc, I just know to stay away from the Ashland and downtown area.  That's not the type of investing I want to be a part of. How about you?

Good evening BP!

My name is Mike Higgins and I wanted to send out a quick intro to everyone. I have been an avid podcast listener, but this is my first post in the forums. I just purchased my first property with my wife in Green Bay, WI. It is a 4/2 that we are currently using as our primary residence. It was a former flip that just basically had lipstick put on it. It sat for a little bit and we were able to get well under market value and are currently house hacking our way to forcing the appreciation up. 

The plan for this house will be to add value, refi, and have the opportunity to use equity towards my own flip. Then utilize this as our first rental. My investing strategy will be to build a portfolio starting with 1-3 flips then get another buy and hold and continue that strategy. Work on long term wealth, with cash generation for the here and now. 

Thanks to Brandon and @Joshua Dorkin and all the podcast guest for helping me on the beginning of this journey.   I look forward to interacting with you all