AH BANKS! Pardon My French - Part 1
Wednesday, July 20
_________________________________________________If this is the new norm, then our buy & hold strategy is going to be a gold mine. Even with continued lower rates, banks and lending institutions are continuing to make it it more difficult to do business with them.In the past 3 years we've use...
Winning: The Real Life Game of Monopoly
Sunday, July 10
Primarily because no one wanted these low-end properties and all I saw was an inexpensive way for a chance to build my portfolio. ____________________________________________________________ Growing up, one of the board games I played as a child was Monopoly. As we navigate deeper into our Pensa...
Wahoo Baseball Game - not a catchy title :)
Wednesday, July 06
What a perfect night for "peanuts and cracker jacks..."____________________________________________________________Thanks to my wife for the above photo. Last month I wrote about all the exciting real estate developments in Downtown Pensacola: Wahoo @ the Developments in Pensacola! Pun intended w...
Purchasing Our First Duplex
Tuesday, June 28
Up until this point we've only invested in single family homes, but as we keep doing our research, small multi-family (MFRs) are the way to go.We looked in the Pensacola area for 12+ months and made offers on 3 other MFRs before we found one that fits our investing criteria. I was so anxious to g...
How We Increased Our Credit Rating
Wednesday, June 08
Our goal was to be deft free, save money for real estate investing, and follow a path to guilt free spending. Increasing our credit rating was just a by-product.____________________________________________________________For many years I heard about Dave Ramsey and his snowball approach of elimin...
Advantages of Selling Your Home to a Real Estate Investor
Tuesday, May 31
Selling your home to an investor is a relatively straightforward process in most cases. There are basically four types of investors: (1) buy & hold investor, (2) wholesaler, (3) flipper, and (4) the buy/flip/hold investor. In the Pensacola, FL and Cantonment, FL markets we serve, we apply a s...