Liz Lammi
First Investment! Lots of mistakes made and lessons learned.
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Huntersville, NC.
Purchase price: $260,000
Cash invested: $40,000
SFH house hack purchased sight unseen out of state in NC. $5k...
Amy Lemaistre
Contractor failing to complete work and making costly mistakes
The contractor I hired to paint interior of home has left it incomplete. He also removed a whole house alarm system without telling me. He explained he had to in order to paint the home properly. He does not plan to r...
Megan Roche
How can I avoid the mistakes that YOU made??
Hi everyone, I'm going to try to make this short and sweet!I'm moving back to Chicago in 6 days and I'm ready to jump into Real Estate (finally!) I have not done any deals/taken any action yet in Real Estate because I...
James Allen
Am I making a mistake investing in Southern California?????
I'm here in Southern California, I invest in the Antelope Valley and I've got my first Direct Mail campaign that just arrived as of today. As I was reading one of the bigger pockets articles, I noticed that Los Angele...
Kenneth Cowan
Finding an entry path after making typical consumer mistakes
Hello all,
26 year old stuck in the rat race in Southern California. Looking for advice on my way out:
I am a salary employee ~60k with a future wife working part time ~30k
Made the mistake last year of buying a be...
Belinda R.
1099 for General Contractor: Did I make a mistake?
I just realized when paying my general contractor last year, I wrote out some checks to the company and some checks to the name of the owner. Oops! I'm not sure if this matters. I intend to issue a 1099 for the total ...
Kaylee Walterbach
Did you make any rookie mistakes? (Plus, NEW BOOK!)
First-Time Home Buyer: The Complete Playbook for Avoiding Rookie Mistakes is available now!
@Mindy Jensen and @Scott Trench have been buying and selling houses for a collective thirty years. In First-Time Home Buye...
Jorge Abreu
👍 Learning from Mistakes: The Importance of Due Diligence
Wow, this crazy real estate journey has taught me a lot! And let me tell you, doing your research is just as important as wearing sunscreen at the beach.When you buy or sell real estate, you have to do a lot of study ...
Alex Silang
"Biggest mistake" was to do out-of-state turnkey investing
So I'm in the process of looking at turnkey investing. I even made a post about it on BP but it didn't get many responses. A blogger I follow is "FIfighter". He's pretty reputable in the financial independence blogosp...
Callum Sinclair
Advise You Wish You Had/ Biggest Mistake on First Deal
Hello,I am trying to start my real estate portfolio. I plan to start with a small buy & hold. What advice do you wish you had starting out/ what was your biggest mistake in the beginning? Thanks