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Something is missing My first nonretail job was as a residential painter in college. I then worked for a handyman and then a custom home builder. I finally landed on a rehab crew remodeling both rentals and flips for an investor in Atlanta, which is where I got exposed to real estate investing. And since my background is in construction, one of my jobs in our company is to...
I felt like I was lied to Today I want to share something with you that is interwoven with real estate, but is really a message I hope that you’ll share with the younger people in your life. It all started when I stopped by a flip project this week and began talking with my lead man, Charles, about a recent article he had read about the shortage of skilled labor in our country. And...
Be very careful right now You may not know this, but we lost the very first real estate investment deal I was ever a part of to foreclosure. How’s that for a credential? It wasn’t a house we had bought to flip or rent out. It was a house my family was building to live in for a few years and then sell to bolster my parent’s retirement. The year was 2005, and I was still living at...
One-sided This week I got a call from an agent to go look at a potential deal. It was a 5-bedroom/ 3-bath house with over 3,000 square feet located in a very desirable area priced at only $100,000. When you see deals like that, you stop what you are doing and get to the house as soon as humanly possible. It wasn’t hard to spot which house I was going to when I turned into the...
The Gut Job In this episode Joey and Ashley walk you through a rehab that is an entire Gut Job. Was it worth it? You'll have to wait and see. https://youtu.be/IIdtDyQcxek