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Run your own race Recently I participated in my second ever half marathon. Consequently, it was also the second one I have done this year. And if you don’t know, a half marathon consists of running 13.1 miles. Now you may be asking yourself, “Why in the world would he do that?” To that I would answer that I have no idea. Well, that is not entirely true. One of the guys in the race...
Pay your friends and family If you are new to real estate investing, one of the biggest questions you may have is, “How am I going to pay for my first deal?” I know it was for me and Ashley when we started. Truthfully, we had no idea where we were going to get the funds to close on a house if we got an offer accepted. That’s because we were two broke kids, with a mound of student...
Find the right advisor I got a call from a brand-new baby investor last week. The reason I describe him this way is because he had made the mental leap of wanting to invest in real estate but had not done a deal yet. He is still in the fact-finding scramble stage of trying to figure out where to begin. I like this guy. He was younger, but had a good head on his shoulders. He was...
Is a master lease a good strategy? The very first rental property Ashley and I ever managed was a little three-bedroom, two-bath house on Kids Drive up in Dalton. At the time, we lived in Villanow, and Dalton was a place we frequented. It was also a place that we did a lot of door knocking trying to find deals, which is how we found the house on Kids Drive. When we came across the...
It can be exciting and scary We went to dinner recently with a group of investor friends over in Dawsonville, Georgia. Some Ashley and I have known for years, and others we had just met that day. As we sat around the table, we discovered that one of them had recently made the move to become a full-time investor. When I say recently, I mean three months ago. Ashley asked him how he...