
20 July 2024 | 28 replies
We'll see some cool, new and neat things but this advancement of society is still aways away.We've beta tested plenty of AI for a few things, it's still just at that level beta.

17 July 2024 | 4 replies
The lower level is 600 sq ft garage and then 450 more sq ft consisting of a 1/1 along with a mudroom.

18 July 2024 | 0 replies
True, I never built anything more than a treehouse when I was eleven, but technically a treehouse is a house so…All I had to do was work with Honomobo to finalize the design, get architectural drawings, receive HOA approval, get a county building permit, get a driveway permit, clear trees for a build site, find a logging truck to take those trees to a lumber mill, find a mill, find someone to take the lumber from the mill to my house, dry the lumber, take a semester of woodworking to learn how to make furniture, engineer/permit/build a septic system, get a well permitted and drilled, install a well pump, learn what a pitless is, install a water line from the pump to the foundation, install a pressure tank, connect the house plumbing to the septic and pressure tank, get the the power company to permit and install a podium for power on site, run power to the foundation, connect the power to the house, engineer a foundation, excavate, get two different sized steel wet plates fabricated, pour said foundation with wet plates mounted all at the same elevation in twenty-five precise locations, hire a crane, hire rigger, hire a welder, build a retaining wall because the dropoff from house to ground level was higher than expected, insulate the crawl space on my own by watching a YouTube video to learn how to load .22 caliber cartridges into a ramstead gun and shoot two and a half inch nails through insulation board into my foundation, badger a supply company until they finally delivered the right insulation board, get them to take away the wrong insulation board they brought that was broken by the wind and scattered into pieces all over the property, find an illusive 3x3 foot crawlspace door, learn how to use a core drill to make a four and a half inch hole in my foundation to install a code required fan to vent the crawlspace that my engineer thought was a stupid requirement and failed to tell me about, figure out what the hell going on when the Honomobo project manager tells me the measurements you gave him of the now poured foundation are wrong, have a panic attack, review plans with engineer, realized the project manager was mistaken, scream into the void, get the last available short term rental license application that had a thirty-day expiration window to pass all inspections, coordinate all subcontractors needed on install day, check with the sheriff about parking semi-trucks on the road, rent a porta potty, rent a dumpster, have coffee and donuts for everyone, oversee the Honomobo install crew that didn’t need overseeing, pass a blower test, pass state inspection, pass septic inspection, build a wooden curb to cover protruding rebar for an unpoured patio, build a temporary front door landing that could theoretically be be permanent so as to pass final county inspection, get a certificate of occupancy, pass the county short term rental inspection on the very last day before it expired to get the very last available license so that I could rent the house to make money in order to no have immediately have to sell, pour the sidewalk and patio.

16 July 2024 | 0 replies
Inventory is now very substantially above the extreme lows seen in recent years, when inventory in the Austin area fell below 1 month (very extreme imbalance between demand and supply) for a sustained period.Kendall Garrison, CEO of Amplify Credit Union, recently said, “The good news is that we are moving toward a more sustainable level of inventory, which will provide price stability for sellers and more choices for buyers.

17 July 2024 | 11 replies
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15 July 2024 | 5 replies
The point of screening an applicant is to determine the level of risk to your property, your income, and others.

15 July 2024 | 2 replies
I’d say ‘improving from a low level.’Recognizing the seasonality of inventory levels, let’s just look at June.

17 July 2024 | 37 replies
My stress level is greatly reduced now and I'm ok with having a few solid properties with a good amount of equity and putting money into public markets (index funds, stocks, MLPs and BDCs).

16 July 2024 | 2 replies
I love reading and learning, and the bigger pockets community is truly a wealth education, Ready to elevate our real estate investment journey to the next level.

16 July 2024 | 33 replies
If you have cash flow — based on whatever your risk level is (six sigma, whatever) — then the leftover outliers are UNCOVERED risk.so I question your basic premise.