All Forum Posts by: David O.

Jeff,

I would recommend partnering with someone that is good at raising money for deals. Better to have 50% of something...  

@Ned Carey has a good hint as well. So important to figure out ways to monetize those opportunities. If it's a deal it is easy to find a buyer. 

Best of luck.

@Jeff Hink

If it is a self directed IRA I would recommend Provident Trust Group.

We started Bridge Management LLC (Bridge) to manage our own portfolio of properties. We were frustrated with property managers who did not seem to understand our needs as investors and lacked execution.

We set out on a mission to improve our property management from the ground up. Here is what we found:

-Property Management is about relationships. That relationship does not just encompass the owner and manager. It is a relationship between owner, manager, tenant, vendors and the product (property).

-In order to make any relationship successful the needs and expectations of everyone have to be understood, met and managed.

-Where we started building Bridge was with the end product. What does the end user (tenant) need and expect? This is how we arrived at our mission:

“We pledge to provide safe, functional and healthy places to live”

This is not just a mission but a mutual pledge. We ask our owners (ourselves or external owners) to join us in pledging to provide this to tenants.

-In making this commitment to our tenants we hold those same tenants to a standard of maintaining the space to these standards. When we bring a tenant on board we walk the property and perform a documented inspection. The tenant agrees that the property is being handed off to this standard.

It is now the tenants responsibility to maintain the home to this standard. It is Bridge’s responsibility to hold the tenant accountable to this agreement through the entire relationship.

We use well thought out systems, technology and clear communication to accomplish this mission. What we have found is tenants want what we are offering and property owners love it. Through our mission based approach we can take the relationship beyond a transaction. It creates a bridge to trust based, long lasting relationships.

We are accepting a limited number of new external clients for the first quarter of 2016. Look forward to partnering.  

Welcome Jonathan Schneider . That's an awesome skill set to have. My hint for you would be to write down some goals. Suspend the tyranny of how and spend some time thinking about precisely what you want. After you have it worked out what you want... Take a look at the plethora of strategies available in the RE world. What strategy or combination of strategies appeal to you? What are your unfair advantages? What is your edge? Those advantages are the lever you can apply and start moving the stone of financial freedom up the hill. Let me know if I can help.

Hi Jason Gullick welcome to BP! This site took me from owning no Real Estate to over 25 buy and holds in the last 6 months. You have the unfair advantage of living in an awesome market where you can lay eyes on some great potential deals. What strategy are you most attracted to? What kinds of "unfair advantages" / "edge" do you have right now that you can start leveraging? Feel free to private message.

This is for Kansas City

We started Bridge Management LLC (Bridge) to manage our own portfolio of properties. We were frustrated with property managers who did not seem to understand our needs as investors and lacked execution.

We set out on a mission to improve our property management from the ground up. Here is what we found:

-Property Management is about relationships. That relationship does not just encompass the owner and manager. It is a relationship between owner, manager, tenant, vendors and the product (property).

-In order to make any relationship successful the needs and expectations of everyone have to be understood, met and managed.

-Where we started building Bridge was with the end product. What does the end user (tenant) need and expect? This is how we arrived at our mission:

“We pledge to provide safe, functional and healthy places to live”

This is not just a mission but a mutual pledge. We ask our owners (ourselves or external owners) to join us in pledging to provide this to tenants.

-In making this commitment to our tenants we hold those same tenants to a standard of maintaining the space to these standards. When we bring a tenant on board we walk the property and perform a documented inspection. The tenant agrees that the property is being handed off to this standard.

It is now the tenants responsibility to maintain the home to this standard. It is Bridge’s responsibility to hold the tenant accountable to this agreement through the entire relationship.

We use well thought out systems, technology and clear communication to accomplish this mission. What we have found is tenants want what we are offering and property owners love it. Through our mission based approach we can take the relationship beyond a transaction. It creates a bridge to trust based, long lasting relationships.

We are accepting a limited number of new external clients for the first quarter of 2016. Look forward to partnering.  

I am seeking local banks in KS that provide portfolio lending for SFR properties. It will be for rate and term refinance, seeking 75%-80% of appraised value.

Thanks for your recommendations. 

Have to second that on platinum title