All Forum Posts by: Stephanie Bureau

So there's a new company coming out this month called Chariot for Women. It's like Uber, but with female drivers and female passengers (male children under 13 are allowed). This takes out a lot of the issues females have driving for Uber. I was thinking it would be a great way to learn the city (I'm in San Antonio, so it's pretty big) and get paid (plus get paid if you find a house). Has anyone done Uber or Lyft and found that it helps with investing?

I just use zillow. I mainly focus on what price point at a certain rent give me 10+% of CoC return and if it'll cash flow. I use zillow and rentometer as well as craigslist to figure out rent around the property. I'm not necessarily looking for what house I'm going to buy (so whether price is too much for such a house doesn't really matter to me).

So I did the math. To do it myself it would be .57/letter so $114/200 letters.

The cheapest at YL is .77/letter so I'd only be saving $40/month, but I'd it only takes me 4 hours to print, stuff envelopes and mail then that's paying myself $10/hr which is pretty good for me, but I doubt it would be that quick.

So I guess I just need to figure out how much I value my time since .20/letter more isn't much 

@Jacquelyn Sarpong I first read that as cow-holesaling and was really confused. lol #Farm girl problems

Yeah San Antonio is pretty saturated too, but part of my list is the next county over, so hopefully that will help. I saw there's a site you can make your own handwriting font and then print using mail merge, and then I saw a way where you write one letter and then using mail merge to change the intro (dear...) and the address, so those are some ways too.

So I've been looking around for pricing for a company to send out yellow letters for me. Is it better/cheaper to actually do it yourself (buy paper, stamps, envelopes, ink etc)? Do postcards get the same response or are full letters better? My list is for out-of-state absentee owners and I'll probably only get 200 to start with.

I know Yellow Letters, Inc starts at $0.77 for full paper, but $0.39 for small postcards, plus $0.10/name for buying the list from ListSource

I'm going to be attending the one in April for San Antonio see what everything goes for and to meet people

Welcome! I'm new-ish to San Antonio too.

At IU all the good places were gone by thanksgiving break for the following school year.

Eventually I will want to have a PM once I have a bigger portfolio, so should I still take it out for now?