All Forum Posts by: David Niles

Great, i had very little money upfront ( of course that was 20+ years ago ) and with me being a contractor did all the work myself on weekends and evenings.  A couple turned into cash cows as Lonnie describes in the book.  Grew out of them and into bigger flips.  Would love to maybe acquire a park someday down the road though. 

Make sure you have a good park manager and park ownership to work with you buy anything, their going to want to approve you. After the first one, we didnt have to jump through any hoops anymore. 

Deals on Wheels by Lonnie Scruggs, great book on starting out on exactly what your looking for. I think a bunch of us all started here. 

Thanks Adam, but were not new to any of this, been in the business for along time now, just adjusting to the area and welcoming new clients. We're not looking to be the biggest just a quality management team which is seriously lacking in the industry.

After settling into Central/East Florida five years ago, my wife and I have made the exciting decision to launch our Property Management company. The timing was delayed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it also afforded us the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the local landscape and market trends.

While we're relatively new to Florida, we bring a wealth of experience to the table. My wife boasts 12 years as a licensed realtor, while I've accumulated 15 years in the field. My background includes being a General Contractor and extensive involvement in various trades throughout my adult life. Together, we've successfully managed numerous properties back in Buffalo, NY, and have extensive experience in property flips, holds, and investor relations.

While we've already brought aboard a few clients, we're eager to expand our portfolio. Based in the DeLand, FL area, we're open to taking on new clients within approximately an hour's radius from here.  

Get ahold of me if you'd like to talk.

Thanks 

Dave

Hi Louis, my wife and I run Property Management in your areas and while we GC in house, we do have vendors we use for other work.  Drop me a line and see what we may have to help you.

Dave

We handled maintenance for a ton of them, the only problem I hated was the inspectors. It seemed each one had to justify their pay check or something.  They would come in and flag something really minor that hadnt changed from the previous 3 inspections. The more we fixed and made nice, the more they nit picked.  I always joked I was just going to pop a hole in the drywall so they could point to it and say, "there fix that" and be happy. lol

Another vote for Google Voice, cant beat the cost plus has lots of nice features.  You can change what numbers it rings etc,  so you can transfer who gets the calls from the number or even have it ring several numbers at same time. 

Window in a shower is always going to require more upkeep, which as we all know, tenants rarely will do.  We always try to remove them where the additional light from outside or ventilation isnt needed, when needed, we have replaced with glass block or nicer unit we built custom non functioning window out of pvc.  I'm going to guess your going to fight that window setup until the day its gone. 

What we also do is put fan on a timer switch, tenants seem to more responsive to simply pushing 15 minutes etc on switch vs leaving fan on and having to come back and shut off.  Remind them, fan should run for about 15 minutes additional after they leave bath. 

We had a pretty nasty cat pea cottage, stripped lots of drywall ended up spraying about 10 gallons Kilz oil throughout.  Turned our pretty nice though. 

Have done tons of cleanouts on evictions too, nothing surprises me anymore on how some people can live.

The hot water tank had things growing in the hot water overflowing, the refrigerator was tucked in a back shed area where everything inside had liquified. 

Welcome AK, quite a few of us from Central FL active on here.  I am central also ( DeLand area )