Quote from @V.G Jason:
Quote from @Kevin L Owens:
Have you thought your investment strategy through? Do you have a team together? Do you have the professionals you need to start an LLC, do the proper real estate/tax accounting, solid contractors to rehab or prepare the property, and a property manager to handle the day-to-day operations? With that, I can connect you to a great person familiar with Columbus and Cleveland. If interested in low-cost properties with above-average rents, I would recommend duplexes in Cleveland near the major hospitals and work with the gentleman I am referring to. It is critical to know the condition and rehab costs, but buying low and doing the deal in the purchase helps with overall costs as you enter the rehab phase. Use the tools in BiggerPockets or others like Rentometer.com and Deal.io. I have two properties in the inner ring suburb of Cleveland's east side, and they are going very nicely. All in on both properties is about $155K (cost + rehab) and rent is at $1,750/mth with an ARV appraisal at $210k.
Go ahead and state who you're working with, this sounds eerily similar to something we've heard on this forums over & over.
Below is Josh's link. I was trying to show some class in connecting them together off of the thread. With the link below, people on the forum will know I have integrity and trust. https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/joshjanus
Josh has been good to me, I was trying to pay it forward by connecting Lolo Druff to Josh. One thing Josh taught me some time ago is to always have or return value to your team. As an investor, and with others teaching and mentoring, a person in real estate should never leech off of a host. Instead, an individual should strive for self-growth and initiative and be aware of how they can add value to members of their team or those who have helped them. I have done this routinely with people like Josh in my real estate world. I also have over-improved my properties for various reasons. I forgave a tenant of a certain circumstance, and I treat my contractor's crew to lunch when they are working on my property.
In the future, show some professional courtesy and class by contacting a poster or BP directly if you think a post contains something "eerie" or nefarious. My questions in my post are solid, my info about Cleveland is accurate based on Cleveland neighborhood grades and Cleveland health systems, and my property values are fact. And Josh is real. After a great 35 years in law enforcement in Northeast Ohio, I would not begin to be "eerie" through a single post on BP. I noticed your double standard in your reply as you don't mention the thing that is "eerily similar to what we've heard...". You questioned me on my contact; so to use your own words, "Go ahead and state "what is this thing you're referring to? Trying to cast some undisclosed drama to elevate yourself over others in your reply to their post makes you look small.
