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Right now it’s 5:38 a.m. My back, hands and neck hurt, and I’m not the alert morning person I normally am. Straight up: I didn’t get enough sleep. I worked on three different rentals yesterday. It was a full day. Rental No.1: We had a busted pipe. When I got the call, it was 30 minutes till Home Depot closed. That meant if we didn’t get all the right materials on the way, the pipe...
Rent is due on the first and late after the fifth for most rental properties. See if this scenario sounds familiar. It is 5p.m. on the fifth and you get a frantic call from a tenant. They’re giving you every reason under the sun for paying late. They say things like, “Please, please give me until next Friday.” Next Friday comes. No payment. Before you know it, two months...
Ashley and I recently took our toddlers to the Ripley’s Aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tenn., for the first time. Boy did we have a time. Notice the omission of the word “good” in that last sentence. The time we had was stressful and not fun. My three-year-old decided he wanted nothing to do with the exhibits. Instead, he wanted to plow up and down the halls pushing the “stroller of...
In chapter 31 of the book of Proverbs, Solomon’s mother tells him what to look for in a woman. This is fascinating because the Bible is often written from a man’s point of view. Here we have a woman giving her perspective as to what a woman should be. Girls all over have clung to these verses looking to them as a guide stone for what a “real” and successful woman should be. Let’s take a...
When starting on the journey of real estate investing, it’s hard to figure out which way you should go. It make’s it even harder when you have little to no money. This was the problem Ashley and I had experienced. We were broke. I mean flat broke. Like I was going door to door with my pressure washer trying to get up enough work for grocery money kind of broke. We didn’t know how we were...