All Forum Posts by: Matt Greer

A ton of mentors will try and get you to pay them and they and they usually aren't the best. Their motivation is to simply get your money. I've found from my experience and the experience of a few of my colleagues if you can find a way to both have skin in the game it's the best. So if you want to do a deal find a way to get skin in the game on a more experienced investors project. Maybe help them acquire the deal or help with the work. If they have a financial interest in the deal then they will put more effort into it and you will learn first hand how to do business. A teacher can only give you a framework and can't account for all the different situations that may arise. Once they give their lecture they are done with you.

I hope you got into it man. Glendale home prices have skyrocketed! It's great. 

Those are some good goals. I just moved back to the east valley and know a few places out of state to get buy and hold properties.

There are a few big companies coming to the area. It's great! As far as how to prepare for it I recommend buy and hold. The towns in the whole phoenix area tend to grow outward until they run into another town and become land locked then you'll see the town start allowing more multi family units. Gilbert is a great example of this. I have been gathering info on who is coming and how many jobs they're going to add and then I try and figure out what areas will have the highest population density increase and then buy. The problem is there are so many people moving here and so many new companies it's hard to process all the data. 

Hey! It's been a few years since you posted this. How is the journey coming along?

Good job man. That's really impressive in that time.

Good buy. We need more people to invest in Mesa. There is so much value that needs to be restored in this town.

Awesome buy! That's in my neck of the woods. Mesa definitely needs a lot of it's multi family units restored to value. 

Probably won't affect the appraisal much. What they can have an effect on is the saleabilty of the property later on if they are an eyesore so it really depends on how they look and also that they are functioning as intended and not hanging down or exposing what they're meant to hide. 

I'd take a look at comps in the area and see totally renovated kitchen vs sorta renovated ones and see how they differ in price and days on market. I'd be happy to send some over if you need.

Most title companies can handle that. I'd look for one close by to the property for convenience. I typically use Great American Title.