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All Forum Posts by: Patrick Olownia

Patrick Olownia has started 11 posts and replied 28 times.

Post: Real Estate Investing Networking Event

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Will be there tomorrow with my buddy  Spencer. Both of us just moved recently from MN. Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Post: Travel Nursing and Real Estate!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

I know I’m talking to a very small group of people here, if any at all... but are there any nurses on BP who currently work as travel nurses and invest in real estate??

Post: SFH MN Market Questions!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

@Jordan Moorhead more so I would ideally still like to find a MFH to house hack and to start my RE journey... but I just kind of want to get an idea from someone who's had multiple SFH (bonus if they've completed BRRRR method) in the area and just pick their brain. Just would like to get an over all feel for SFH investing for the foreseeable future and ask questions like I've been doing with MFH the past month.

Post: SFH MN Market Questions!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Hello everyone!

I've primarily spent the last month or so looking at MFH with the intention of House Hacking and have just briefly opened my search up to include SFH.

I was just wondering if anyone who has experience with SFH would be able to answer a few of my questions? If so I'd love to shoot you a message! In return I'd love to be able help out if help is ever needed, for example renovating a house (TLC) type of work or anything you could think of. Currently work as a nurse and have a good portion of my week off since I work 12 hour shifts.

Thanks! 

Post: Hot Market? What's Your Strategy?

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Gosh thank you guys so much for the responses! I 100% agree that I shouldn't sit on the sidelines and "wait" for the market to correct itself. With that being said... most of the houses I'm analyzing just aren't making sense from a numbers perspective and a majority of that is because I'm looking on the MLS. Seeing houses have 30+ offerings after 4 DOM is a little discouraging... and so that's why I need to change up my approach! But only having 2 months of experience has me has me a little stuck at the moment.

So going to regroup with my realtor and friend Kurt and give direct market mailing a try. I also think I should try and invest in my local market before attempting to dive into long distance real estate? But then again I haven’t started learning about that yet so I shouldn’t rule it out.

Post: Hot Market? What's Your Strategy?

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

New investor here in MN and I just kind of wanted to try and get a discussion going from a number of investors regarding your view points on investing in a fairly hot market and economy. From a variety of podcasts I've listened to I hear about people always buying regardless of whether the market is "hot" or "not" but I'm under this impression that a majority of buyers are simply over paying. 

With that being said, I think this is a great lesson as a new investor to learn the value of staying patient and waiting for the right time. Now I'm not referring to trying to time the market because very few, if anyone can do that but just learning the value of staying patient as my goals are to buy and hold rental properties.

Overall, my new game plan is to continue to learn and practice running analysis on properties and to work my but off at my job to have enough cash for when the market does cool off a bit to purchase 1-2 properties. Just wanted to hear what other people do during hot market cycles like the one we are currently in. I know there are a lot of pieces to a topic like this but just wanted to get a discussion going. Thanks!

Post: Success Stories Finding Partners to Invest with!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Means I’m not doing enough networking... gotta get out there more!

Post: Success Stories Finding Partners to Invest with!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Ahhh I suppose... thanks!

Post: Success Stories Finding Partners to Invest with!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Hey everyone!

I was wondering if anyone who has or currently invests with partners would care to share their stories of how you met with them, your goals and what has helped you guys succeed the most.

I currently live in MN and would like to keep my options open investing locally and out of state.

Thanks!

Post: Driving for $$$/Direct Market Mailing!!

Patrick OlowniaPosted
  • Lakeville, MN
  • Posts 30
  • Votes 17

Thanks guys!

Alright so before I had posted this discussion post I hadn't yet gone out and actually looked at properties (Like I said I am very new to this all) and my only impression of Duplex's for example are from the ones my two friends currently live in. They are the ones that are Up/Down with one front door, but then lead to the two separate units. So, based off that I had this impression that most multifamily homes were like that (I know silly) and so I wasn't too sure if it was easy to tell if the houses were just really big single family homes, or if they were multi family... But I went and drove around and noticed that more often than not there are two or three doors and multiple mailboxes. 

So, driving for dollars is officially a full GO!