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2 April 2018 | 5 replies
I am handy so I plan on doing those projects myself to save some cost.Now that we have house number one under our belts, we are excited to work on our second property!
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3 April 2018 | 23 replies
I have around 10 R.E. transactions under my belt but still consider myself a newbie.
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2 April 2018 | 3 replies
@George Blower , Thank you for the friendly welcome!
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2 May 2018 | 10 replies
@George Blower Many thanks George.
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4 April 2018 | 13 replies
Hi @ George Blower, @ Tom Ott-Thanks @ Larry Fried- Thanks for your feedback about JAX, I am currently working with turnkey provider in JAX but their numbers don't reflect great ROI, Its better only in long-term.
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10 April 2018 | 11 replies
We have also found several smaller local banks and credit unions in border areas (New England, the Rust Belt) that will make secured loans to Canadians.
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8 April 2018 | 0 replies
Learn from someone else's mistakes, don't reinvent the wheel, etc.My goal for my first deal is to financially partner on a flip with someone who has some successful rehabs under their belt so I can be involved in a deal, see firsthand all of the stages of the process, and learn the basics from someone with some proven experience.
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17 February 2018 | 10 replies
Thanks @George Blower @James WiseThank you for the advise and thoughts @Larry Fried I am surely going to keep looking into it.
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22 February 2018 | 7 replies
What I was figuring was that to get experience under our belt Do Hard Money, could be used to help fund, but quickly realizing that I'm gonna need to be able to fund the rehab too.
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26 February 2018 | 7 replies
George Blower thank you as well and I will be talking with them as well.