All Forum Posts by: Chris Briscoe

thanks for the words of encouragement @Pyrrha Rivers and @TomYung!! 

I've actually listened to over 60 of the podcasts in the last 4+ weeks. 

My biggest issue right now seems to be understanding the ins and outs of marketing. Mostly how to get the untraceable number for mailers/signs. I really don't want my personal cell to be the number called directly just to avoid the problems that would more than likely cause. I'm not a techy by any means but l can follow directions if they're spelled out simply enough. I thoroughly believe if/when l start getting leads that the talking and conversing with motivated sellers will be easy. No problem talking with people at all. The next part would probably finding/securing funds for deals. My job time constraints was not gonna be a problem but the worlds best boss just got moved to another department. Grrrrrrrr. But, l'll figure that part out. 

Again, thanks for the support. 

@Ethan that would be amazing. Networking at it's finest. I'd love to have a sit down with you sometime. I'm rarely down in Atlanta more or less because of the traffic and it's an overwhelming place to navigate. But I'll happily do my best to carve out some time when you're available. My current home AND my rental property are BOTH going thru some water damage issues that are absolutely wreaking havoc on my free time. But once I get all that situated I'm gonna get down there and pick your brain.

With my iPhone l downloaded the Podcasts App. It only gets a 3/5 star rating but I've had no issues navigating all the podcast episodes. Volume is good with headphones, car, Bluetooth speaker, dock speakers and even the phone speaker.  I've listened to 60+ in the last month and no issues.

The podcast should be renamed. "Awesome, Awesome. That's great, great advice"

J/K guys. Loving every episode.

There's a bonsai place near me that has bamboo surrounding it. While talking to the owner of this establishment we asked him about the bamboo.

He went into deep scientific discussion about how bamboo works. It's essentially rigid kudzu. The roots from ONE stalk can sprout thousands more over the course of less than a year. It does grow out in a network as has been stated here. The absolute only way to get rid of it is to dig up the entire network of roots. This man has acres covered in it. He actually sells it. Some guy in Florida paid him over $40K to bring down a specific looking Bamboo he had on the lot. After digging it up, loading it into a tractor trailer and trucking it down to Florida it still survived the trip and took over the gentleman's land.

The barrier idea may work but l believe the depth minimum is 18". It's nearly impossible to kill. he's burned the entire lot before and within weeks he had more coming back than before the burn. It will destroy concrete. It will strangle other trees nutrient sources from the soil. I wish you luck but getting rid of it is not going to be cheap or easy.

I have.  I barely have the time after I get off work with the stuff between my two boys, my wife, still trying to get this machine up and running, etc. I haven't taken the time to find any reia's in the area. I'm sure we have them and I'm friends with a couple of realtors but I haven't asked them if they attend any or even know of any. Thanks for the encouragement on the reading comp. LOL. It's annoying not being able to understand/retain the stuff I read.

If this is in the wrong place, please move it to where it belongs.

My situation is as follows.

My life has been a successful track of backwards. I always jump into stuff the backwards way.  It's been happening since I was in High School. I usually don't find out it's happening that way until it's far too late.  Just poor info and late discovery , both led by desire. 

I have always wanted to dive into real estate as the whole scenario of owning real estate for income just makes sense to me. Due to my own idiotic repetition of mistakes in debt building, I decided to push forward into REI while working a full time job. Saw some flipping shows on HGTV(I know, I know), started finding videos on youtube on REI and how it's done and that led me to what is considered evil according to the podcasts. I bought into a guru program. I won't say which one for now just to keep them out of the discussion. But the program is a 50/50 deal up to a certain money amount. I actually don't have a problem with the setup for what they provide.

Of course, about 4 days after I signed up with the program, I found BP. Waaah, waaaaaaah. I. Wish. I. Knew. Sooner. Again.......backwards. I'm not upset about getting into the program, but I am upset that I could've found this wonderful place sooner had I just tried a little harder. I'm only 6 weeks into the program.

My goal is now to get done with my part in this program as quick as intelligently possible.  I'm a show me person. I cannot read something and turn it into reality. It used to make me mad in school when aptitude results would come back in "reading comprehension skills" as below average. It made me mad because I didn't understand what I was reading. Go figure. So things like marketing, totally confused. I believe I'll have no problem talking to sellers as I'm pretty good with people. I believe getting funds for a deal will be fairly easy in the beginning as I have excellent credit. I live in good ole boy country and know SEVERAL people in trade skill areas(paint, roofing, hvac, construction) and I believe finding reliable help for the physical part of the business will be relatively easy. But the nuts and bolts part of getting marketing going eludes me.

I'm in North Georgia and would love to hook up with some other investors to pick their brain on some marketing ideas. Don't get me wrong, my program has a whole plethora of marketing schemes but like I said, I'm a show me guy. I need to physically see it done.

Anyways. That's my setup. feel free to comment/advise/bash away. And thanks for reading.

Thanks all for the welcome.

@Ethan Atkinson, l'll definitely have to make it to a REIA meeting sometime.

Still building my team at the moment. Got an entire week off work to start the ball rolling on some key players.

Thanks @Mark Nolan! I'll definitely have to do that.

Fresh into the game of REI. From about 90 minutes North of Atlanta.

Decided l was gonna join the forums after 40+ shows into the podcast. Which l listened to in less than 2 weeks. Addicted to the info l hear there. Just trying to begin investing. 

Thanks to any that respond and l look forward to participating and hopefully one day contributing to the site.(l don't have a profile photo yet, but l'll get one ASAP.)