All Forum Posts by: David Roberts

Man i love the floors in the dining area. How did you get that floor to look thar way with the dark and light?  Was thar staining work or the type of wood, etc?  I would love to have something like that in my home.  I've never seen it before. 

Kw is expensive but they have their stuff together.  If you want to sell luxury homes,  kw is the place.   Are you going to be a full time realtor?  If you will be part time,  kw is too expensive.  

What's your goal with your license?  I got mine to use for myself,  help friends and family,  and help others by word of mouth (i.e. part time).

You need to find a smaller Broker that is cheaper and who will sit down and teach you one on one.  They are around here. 

Basically like was said, be all in at 75% of ARV. In 6 months or if you can find a lender that will do a product with less seasoning, refinance your cash out. Typical is 70-75% of appraised value. Then your running all cash out, 100% cash on cash return. That's the way to be!

I can give any details as well. Connect with me and pm.  Its not true that you have to pay a few hundred to go.   Ive been many times.

bank of america signature card does 0% 12 months and if you charge on it there are no fees,  so this even gets around the 3% balance transfer fee. And anything in 12 months time charged gets 0%.   If you take a deposit off the card its 3% i believe and u must do that in the first 60 days. 

In Just charged 14k to to this card on the latest rehab.  

Yes, realtors will be able to help. They'll get paid by the landlord as well for bringing them a good tenant. Landlords post their listings on the MLS often, so agents have that access.

You can go to rentometer and try finding current rental listings.  Check craigslist, there are other sites.  I'm sure someone else will have more info on it.

I work with a few people that have their smartphones glued to their ears.  It's very annoying to the other employees, and it really starts killing morale.  But, this is what you get in the corporate world.  The company is too large to manage efficiently.  It's amazing huge corporations make a profit at all.  You get a lot of complacency.  There are people who will deliberately do nothing during regular time so they can get that overtime pay.  

There are a lot of managers who refuse to deal with personnel issues, and this is even worse for morale.  If that guy is leaving early and coming in late every day, why can't I? Oh boy.

This stuff doesn't fly in a small business, where the owner is the one running it, and he knows what he's doing.  You can't BS that guy, and there are no HR reps there to protect you either lol.

 I really liked this answer.  As much as I want to argue the 'theft' point, I can't.  It's a good point.

On the flip side though, employers do the same thing by calling you at home, calling your cell that they don't pay for, text you, ask you to work more than the expected amount of hours without pay (salaried is just another way a company came up with of stealing time from your life at no cost to them, in my mind everyone should be paid an hourly wage whether it's $10 or $100), ask you to come in for an emergency to solve an issue that the company exclusively benefits from.  This is theft of your personal time, which in my opinion IS FARRRRR MORE valuable than anything.  Why? Because all you have is your time, and it should be for sale, not to be given away, and damnit, it should be expensive. 

If I decide to work an extra hour for no pay for someone else to get 100% of the benefit...well, F that. LOL

Gotta love the endless struggle that is capitalism...

Say there never was an animal there, were you going to replace the carpet anyway? If yes, or even if you would be 'on the fence' on replacing the carpet, and they were good tenants otherwise, let it go.  Add them to your future prospect list and keep the good rapport with them.  

That's just my opinion. 

 I love what you did...increased the rent so you could pay it, and added the clause anything over 66 she's responsible for.  That was great.