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All Forum Posts by: Tim Blanchard

Tim Blanchard has started 10 posts and replied 31 times.

Post: Off market deal….SubTo?

Tim BlanchardPosted
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Quote from @Eliott Elias:

Purchasing a property subject to is complex, you first and foremost need to get educated on proposing this and what it actually holds you and the seller liable for. This is not a traditional transaction by any means and you need to understand it fully.


Hence, the reason for my post. 
Enlighten me, hive!!!!

🤪

Post: Off market deal….SubTo?

Tim BlanchardPosted
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We have a potential off market deal with a neighbor coming up.

They have an STR next to one of ours (both perform well). They just moved out of the area and are thinking about selling. I'm wondering, since we've been pretty open with them from the get go, if it might make sense to present them with a "subto" deal? With rates being where they are, they purchased in ‘20 so I suspect their mortgage is at a rate well below 5% and it would be great for our bottom line to get that rate ;-)

I’m not familiar with “subto” deals at all but from what I’ve heard, this sounds like a ripe opportunity.

Thanks!

Tim

Post: Subto mentorship program

Tim BlanchardPosted
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Quote from @Fatou Ndoye:

Hi Evan , I am a current student and honestly think this is the best investment I made for myself. Subto teaches everything to do with real estate, but also mindset, how to buy business creatively. It's absolutely insane the amount of Value Pace brings. It's overwhelming and I love it. 

Have you made any money?

Post: Mixed Use property in Southern MD

Tim BlanchardPosted
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We own a few STR properties in a remote waterfront vacation destination area and this year decided to buy a mixed use property with the plan to renovate it and open some sort of business that would compliment the portfolio nicely. It's 1.1 acres and has a house and two commercial buildings. We've since realized that we need to keep our focus on the STRs and the mixed use property will have to be the realization of someone else's dream.

It’s an ideal opportunity for someone looking to move to a beautiful area and start a family business. The commercial street front building is roughly 2,500 square feet and used to operate as a retail store that offered fishing supplies and boat engine sales and service with a ~ 2,000 square foot warehouse/shop structure in the back. The house is a three bedroom two bath but all will need major renovation to be inhabitable/serviceable.

We’re looking to sell the whole lot for basically what we’ve put into it.

$375k

Anyone interested, please send me a DM.

Post: Need to find owner/bank of abandoned property

Tim BlanchardPosted
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Quote from @Wayne Brooks:

@Tim Blanchard The lender is paying the taxes. There is nothing you can do, assuming heirs don't want to deal with it which is likely, you'll have to wait until they foreclose…then you could buy as an REO. Fannie will require a sales price of at least 95% of a current fha appraisal at that time…at least for the first 3-6 months anyway.

This property has been abandoned for over 4 years and we're willing to pay cash for it and there's no way to find out who will take our money?
That just seems odd.
Quote from @Todd Jones:

What did the county's property tax website state?
You can also see if it's behind on payments.


The taxes are being paid on time.

We own a property that does well with STRs. There's an abandoned house sitting on the adjacent property that was "winterized" several years ago, the owner of record passed away and apparently the heirs did a reverse mortgage on it and hit the high road. It's got an FHA case number on the sign posted on the front door but when I go to hudhomes I come up dry.

We want to buy this property, resurrect it and potentially rent it out or flip it.

Does anyone have any tips on locating the financial institution or individual who's paying the taxes on it (they're getting paid)?

Quote from @Edward Merry:

I've been in the Pace Morby mentorship for about a month now. I'm so glad I joined I wish I had more free time to join in on more of the live zoom calls. Every weekday there about 5 to 7 zoom classes you can learn from and practice calling sellers. On the weekends there are also zoom calls so If you have time on the weekends you can catch those. The mentorship training classes are short and straight to the point, but the zoom calls are more like friends collaborating so they can go on for hours sometimes. I honestly don't know how Pace has time for a normal family life, he seems to be constantly on zoom calls with and traveling to meet people in his community. I haven't seen anyone give so much to their students and Pace constantly goes above and beyond what the mentorship includes. I wasn't super crazy about setting up my company right away since I don't own any property yet, but I guess that's the best route to take. It was close to 10K to set up the trust, will, LLC's and tax account. So now it's up to me to take the action and get the phone calls going to prospective sellers. Another nice thing about being in the community is the discord channel that keeps you constantly connected to thousands of other students and lenders
nationwide in the mentorship, so getting help with a deal or advice is just a matter of typing into the discord channel and getting replies from other more advanced students. Another cool feature is the Elephant challenge which happens quite often and lasts for a few days. People can see these on Youtube without a mentorship and it's a great way to learn a few things while you're trying to decide if you want to jump into the pool.  If I could go back and choose again, Yes I would still join. No regrets here.


 How many deals have you done? Have you made your initial investment (into the mentorship program) back?

Quote from @John Underwood:

How many properties do you have?

If just one you are jumping the gun on needing any of this.


 Not true at all.

If you want to successfully run an STR you need to be on both AirBnB and VRBO at the very least, PLUS run direct bookings. Having your calendar sync up between all is where a PMS comes in beautifully and OwnerRez is sou-to-nuts that best one out there.

We went from one property to three within two years and the platform handles things wonderfully.

The UI/UX utterly blows but the functionality is second to none.

Quote from @Evan R Wright:

There are plenty of members who are making a killing in subto. A lot of them are off running their own businesses at this point. It comes down to how much action you take and it’s also not a priority to justify our business to those on the sidelines!

Out of every thousand that join, maybe one.
I’m not on the side lines by any stretch of the imagination, just not buying this Pace guys snake oil and am posting my disappointment in BP for pushing it.