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One of the biggest mistakes I see beginning investors make is buying a property a long distance away from where they live. And trust me, I understand. It was a great deal. And you hadn’t seen anything that cheap around you. Ashley and I did the same thing when we bought a place for $8,000 45 minutes (one-way mind you) from where we lived. And that was just to the...
I wish you could hear the voice of the character I have inside my head. It’s that of a Scotsman. I’m not sure if it’s from a cartoon I watched as a kid or if it was one of Robin Williams’ alter egos. Either way, when something unsavory would happen to the Scotsman, his expletive of choice was “Ah shillelaghly!” And with what we just learned on a current flip, I’m going to go with...
So you bought a house to flip, did a jam-up rehab on it, and already have it under contract with some buyers who love it. Things are going great. During the due diligence period, the buyers pay for a home inspector to go out and look the place over. Then it happens. Your agent calls and says, after the home inspection, your buyers have concerns. You’re wondering what could...
As we were doing the walk-through inspection of our most recent flip, we noted that there was a regular 200 amp breaker panel on one side of the house with a few open spaces in it. This was great because we needed those spaces to add a new air conditioning system. When we got to the other side of the house, however, we found a small fuse panel. It had no fuses in it so we just assumed it...
I was talking to one of my best friends, Houston Long, recently about something that had been going on at his office. Not only is Houston a top notch investor, but he’s also a fantastic agent at Maximum One Realty. At his office, they had a new hire that was going full throttle. By that I mean they were showing houses from early in the morning to late into the evening seven days a week. ...