All Forum Posts by: Brian Winn

As mentioned above, it is all about tenant quality.  We have one two hours away in a B neighborhood and we screened intently.  I go down once in the spring for maintenance and once in the fall again.  We have a retired handyman who we call to go check on small things for us who is very reasonable.  In fact, he just recommended someone to replace our vinyl shutters and he is doing it for half the cost of the other three estimates.  The house is in good condition so we don't get too many call either.  I don't think we would consider if the house was in poor shape.  Best of luck!

Thanks for the warm welcomes all!  Reading a lot of forums and listening to many of the podcasts designed to help beginner investors. As many of you have stated, what a wealth of info here!  Does any body work closely with a high quality 1031 intermediary in the Boise area?  Take care

Hi All,

    My wife and I live in SW Idaho and are interested in becoming real estate investors in the next couple years.  We currently own a home in the Twin Falls area and are interested in turning our current primary residence into another rental here in a couple years as we bought at a low point in the local real estate market.  We currently cashflow just shy of $200/mo after vacancy, R/M and capital expense.  I stumbled onto this site a week ago after reading an article about a gentleman who found out his wife had $90,000 worth of student loan debt when they married.  

    We are currently working on paying off some debt and will be in a full time education mode over the next couple years reading all we can get our hands on and watching more webinars.  I watched my first one last week!  Can't wait to watch some more as they are great for a newbie.  We are going to work on a plan in January but hope to find a mentor sometime in early 2017 to help guide us.  

I'll be lurking around.   Looks like a wonderful site and can't wait to contribute to the learning!

Brian