I’ve been invited to host the Carnival of Money Stories coming up the week of October 2nd. This carnival is for money-related stories or experiences only.
As a business owner, I’ve become a pretty frugal person in my old age. I can’t help it–it feels like I work really hard for every dollar we get [...]
As you probably already know, I like to read up on various aspects of real estate whenever I have the time. It’s my favorite topic–what can I say? Here’s what I’ve discovered lately and highly recommend.
I had no idea resources like this existed until I ran across them in a back corner of a bookstore [...]
I found a duplex on the market today that might interest some of my readers. It’s offered at $119,900 and has gross rents of $1300/month ($650 each side). I’ve been told that the owner doesn’t pay any of the utilities or lawn care. Each side has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, and a one car [...]
I had one of those days where I woke up this morning to about six messages. And, whenever I would get through returning two of those calls, two or three other people had already called and left messages. It went like that all day.
So, I had to reschedule the new House 13 tenant until tomorrow. [...]
Well, I decided to accept the tenant who stood me up that day into House 13. I was dead set against it since she stood me up, except that she came back three days in a row (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) until she could track me down to fill out the application. Talk about insistent! [...]
Well, the prospective tenant for House 13 actually showed up to our rescheduled appointment! I stood her up this time! And, since she didn’t have my phone number, she couldn’t call me. Contractor 3 took Monday off, so no one was there to meet her yesterday. She came back again today looking for me and [...]
I can’t help myself. I absolutely love Jeff Lewis’s style from the show “Flipping Out”. Did you know you can take a quiz to assess your Flipping IQ on BravoTV.com?
I’ve been reminded of Jeff Lewis a few times now as we’ve analyzed and brainstormed about our latest acquisition, House 17. We’re under contract as of [...]
Well, the prospective tenant for House 13 didn’t show today when we were supposed to meet so she could fill out an application. Naturally. I had a few other things to do there, so the trip wasn’t wasted. I called her fifteen minutes after she was supposed to be there and [...]
When do eager tenants come looking for you?–When you don’t want them, that’s when! For the second time recently, we had a prospective tenant want to rent House 13. The first time, my broker put the ‘for rent’ sign out without asking me. We couldn’t get the house ready in time for that tenant–not that [...]
If you’ve been reading for long, you probably know that I’ve really had a hard time getting the plumber for House 8 to do, well, ANYTHING. It’s been months of dragging his feet on the job. The shower heads and knobs are still not installed. The owner of the plumbing business called me and asked [...]
