All Forum Posts by: Christina R.

@Elizabeth Colegrove

- I'm in Maryland - what area was/is your mom in?

@Nicole A. @Lisa Phillips Here you go Lisa- tenant drama story, excellent read. Nicole - I hope you get that final court date here within the next week. Glad to hear that the property under contract looks like it will go through - so essentially you are tag teaming these bums because isn't the one connected to the others (they moved in because your seller turned off the utilities,. right?). Since this other closing is taking months to happen, are you getting a bigger discount on the price? I hope you are getting something more out of the deal because I know this is already several months in!

@Nicole A.

- LOL . Don't want to highjack this thread but can you go back to your idiot tenant /eviction thread and update us there??? LOVE reading about that as it's very educational.

@Robert Taylor

- use the search engine and type in yellow letters, postcards, DM, etc., and you'll get more info than you know what to do with about this topic.

setting your budget - Determine what you can afford to do for 6 months. Then do it.

@Armegi Gil

Check out @Jerry Puckett with New Refined Images, LLC here on BP. Started a campaign with him last month and every week my phone is ringing. It's been a good experience thus far.

@Cynthia Scott

- Welcome! Hope to see you at the Meetup in Columbia next Wednesday!

@Jamal Atwell

- There ARE lots of REIAs in Virginia as well - just don't know much about them.

@Jessica Swingle maybe can give further information - there are some that meet in NoVA.

@Jamal Atwell

-I feel your pain. Anywhere in the "metro DC" area on either side of the river is essentially prohibitively expensive for investing - the REAL investing where you are buying way below market. I believe there are deals to be had but they are hard to find and this area is competitive.

I think you'd do good in an area like Baltimore - it is competitive because the barrier to entry is lower than trying to invest in DC. Start attending Meetups and REIAs in the Baltimore area and start networking, get connected with people that know the city and get those proverbial "boots on the ground" that can help you even though you are probably 50 miles - but with traffic 2 hours! - away.

Believe me when I say that networking is where it's at. I am living it right now. If it wasn't for my finding the BP Nation last spring, it wouldn't be happening nearly as quickly (quickly, for me)- or at all.

Hang in there - just do NOT give up!!!

Check out via Google-

Baltimore REIA (Timonium)

MAREIA (Ownings Mills)

Baltimore/Washington Investors Meetup (Columbia)

The Real Deal Meetup (Arbutus)

@Chenna Marri I used to teach in Germantown. As long as your rent is in line with what you can command on the open market, if you're not going section 8, you shouldn't have a problem. Be sure to account for ongoing expenses, etc. If you have been reading BP for any length of time then you know that rent is not just about covering your mortgage. I'd build in for a PM to manage it as well even if you don't use one at first. Good luck!

@Vaughn Lewis

- welcome to BP -- everything mentioned above is great advice by people who are in the proverbial trenches.