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22 October 2024 | 4 replies
From your past posts, as well as what work you've mentioned being comfortable taking on yourself, I think you definitely have the requisite knowledge to act as your own GC and sub out any work you don't feel like taking on yourself.
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25 October 2024 | 33 replies
(yellow, blue, handwritten, scribbles).19.Slap a unique tracking phone number on each mailer design.20.Spend another fortune sending mailers, again.21.Get yelled at, again.22.Remove people from the list that demand it, again.23.Receive a bunch of returned mailers, again.24.Spend another fortune to skip trace and resend the new mailers… again.25.Subscribe to your favorite real estate investing forum and ask people what you are doing wrong.26.Try hard to make sense of their response: “If all this is not working for you, it means you didn’t do it enough, do more (of what obviously is not working), and stay consistent”.27.Get depressed.28.Get yourself together.29.Do it all over again.30.
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22 October 2024 | 3 replies
I have seen amazing stories from many of you on BP and want to open my mind to new possibilities and strategies that are out of my comfort zone.Teaching - I have been building residential and commercial properties for many (too many) years as well as land development and property subdividing.
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29 October 2024 | 24 replies
If you’re comfortable with these risks, it sounds like a strong path toward reaching your portfolio goals.
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22 October 2024 | 6 replies
Now--here is where I am different--I design my projects.
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20 October 2024 | 8 replies
BiggerPockets is full of resources designed to help you along your journey, whether you are just getting started or a seasoned investor.
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22 October 2024 | 8 replies
Get out of your comfort zone.
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20 October 2024 | 7 replies
This gives much better diversification protection across geographies, asset types, strategies, investment subclasses etc. versus putting all the eggs into one basket.The downside is that it's not for everyone, and a person has to be comfortable with turning over control to someone else.
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30 October 2024 | 236 replies
It's like having 20 cars in a garage, all in good shape with maintenance records and all, and calling a local dealer's shop asking for a trade-in value on one of them, while I can comfortably put it on cars.com and sell it to highest bidder or take it off the market if I can't get the top retail dollar on it.
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14 October 2024 | 2 replies
If anyone has any recommendations for an Architectural Designer or Structural Engineer who can help design and put the plans together that would be awesome.