All Forum Posts by: Amy Van Ollefen
Amy Van Ollefen has started 5 posts and replied 43 times.
Post: Salt Lake Real Estate Investors Association - Evening Networking event
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
Is this a dinner? Or it just happens to be in a steakhouse? It doesn't appear that you need to register?
Post: Why Pay The Gurus $41,000 When You Can Learn House Flipping For FREE
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
If I still lived in the area, this would be AWESOME!
Post: What state to buy my first investment property to cash flow?
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
Originally posted by @Martin Carstens:
Hi Neil, Just reading over the other states and cities. Closer to home for you, would be Salt Lake City, UT. West Valley City and other areas have a lot to offer. Great place to do business if you like out door activities? If you are interested ? Property Management Systems is a turn key operation with everything in place to help you. You can check out the web site. Best of luck!
Martin Carstens
Have you worked with them before? I just moved to Salt Lake, and can't believe how cheap rents are, especially compared to prices. It seems like you'd have to find some crazy amazing deal to make buy and hold work here.
Post: What does Success mean to you?
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
Being in control of my own life. Nobody dictating when I have to work, how much I get paid etc.
The time and finances to be able to do what I want. I have a lot of interests! Many of them expensive!
Post: I need help running these numbers! Big purchase (make or break) 20 unit 2bd 1.5 bath apartment. I have provided the calculator screenshot.
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
My first question is how are you getting a loan that only requires a 5% down payment?!
Post: WOMEN IN RE: Comfortable going to meetups? Improvements?
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
My comfort level of attending a meetup has nothing to do with being female, but moreso that I am a beginner and feel I don't have much to add to the conversation at this point, and don't want to feel stupid. I'm also introverted so randomly chatting it up with strangers about a topic I don't feel I have much knowledge on sounds like a nightmare lol.
I went to a meetup once, it was actually pretty good. There were some friendly people there. Maybe if you want people to feel comfortable, make it clear the meeting is for anyone (if it is) no matter what their experience level, and be nice to new people and go talk to awkward looking people in the corner, cuz that's probably me. haha.
Making everything into a women's only group is strange... when there also isn't a men's only version.
Post: What's in the Fridge of a 4 yr vacant property?
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
ugh, don't even open it! ew!
Post: I make $1000+ a day...would like to get enough passive income to quit day job
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
Originally posted by @Steve A.:
Hey J Scott, thanks for the advice! It is good to hear from people who took the plunge.
I'm in basically an entry level position, so it's not like I'd be losing some sort of management role. But I have a once bitten, twice shy attitude because I graduated from undergrad in 2008 hoping to go into finance, and was forced to work selling shoes for 2 years due to the lack of jobs...I'm sure the economy has improved slightly but it scares the hell out of me...I never want to go back to that.
And then there's the issue that going back into this field would essentially kill me on the inside...I don't want to work in an office ever again. If I had to get a job again, some possibilities would be: teach English in Japan or some other foreign country that allows me to experience travel and different cultures, become a firefighter, go back to school for a master's in another subject in a science discipline so it's free, I'm great in any sort of sales role and I wouldn't even have a problem doing something like selling cars, hell even bartending would be more enjoyable than this.
Also regarding the Google algorithms etc, I don't do any SEO for exactly that reason...my traffic is all paid traffic, so I have far more control, and I advertise on affiliate-friendly sources with essentially no compliance guidelines or restrictions of any kind...I focused on these because I thought they would be more long term than continually getting banned from and then defrauding Google, Facebook, etc. like most big affiliates do. I would, however, like to start and monetize a blog, which would be SEO traffic, once I quit and have some more time, since I have a somewhat interesting story.
please tell me where you are getting a masters in science that is free, because that my friend, just doesn't happen unless I was looking in all the wrong places. You can get a PhD paid for, but that is not easy, neither in getting accepted, or completing!
Post: The Best Before/After Photos!! (Post Yours, Too!)
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
Ah, ok. Well, I'd say it works, I want to live in them all!
Post: Why Do you Care about being rich?
- Park City, UT
- Posts 45
- Votes 18
Originally posted by @Edgar Aguillon:
Alfonso Velazquez very well said sir. Freedom to do as you please whatever day of the week it is. Just finished reading The millionaire fastlane and it talks about freedom now instead of waiting 30-40years of your life in a regular job.
One of the best books I've read!