Financial Freedom One House At A Time
I’m so sore right now. My hands hurt, I have bruises and cuts all over the place, and my back is killing me. This is all from doing something I haven’t done in a long time: I’ve been framing on a house. Sometimes I get asked if having a contractor’s background has helped us in our investing career. To begin with, it did. When it was just…
I had an interesting time with contractors last week. We have five rehabs going right now, which means we are dealing with lots of contractors and many different schedules. And last week’ workflow was, well, inefficient at best. I had one contractor go MIA. I chose that term because we didn’t know he was gone. He normally goes out, works and sends us his invoice when he is…
So, you’ve been telling everyone that you buy houses, and you’ve finally found someone who needs to sell their property quickly. After you inspect the house, you realize it needs work. But there could be a good profit if you fix it up and sell it. You get the seller to the kitchen table and structure the deal of the century. The seller accepts, and you close the deal….
Should you use a handy man? Lately I’ve had a hard time finding a good, consistent, and affordable painter that’s not booked three months out. This issue led me to do something I don’t normally do – I called a handyman service for paint bids on two consecutive projects – I got burned on both of them. The first house was in Dalton. I hired a…