All Forum Posts by: Gregory Tran

I'd say yes best would be to work with an agent.  I don't know much about those areas but I remember a couple years back you could get houses in Katy for $60-70k.

If you need an agent referral let me know - otherwise it shouldn't be hard to find one!

@Douglass Belt Is this just for one set of tenants?  Do they put a memo for what property it's for?

Thanks @Kimberly H. I never even thought of that.  But yes I think there is an option to decline - I guess needing to accept the money isn't so bad after all.

El Cosmico :)

I'm with Keller Williams also.  From what I gather, they're on the more expensive side,  but when you're just starting out you'll probably not do a ton of business anyways, so the education they provide is likely worth it.  

The others have given good suggestions.

For me, being close enough to not hate driving there often was a big deal.  It's also nice to actually care somewhat about the neighborhood.

Once you pick, you can try real hard to get a listing there, and once you get that you can really bombard.  Yard sign, logoed open house signs, door knocking, open house flyers, just sold flyers, etc etc

Here in Austin you can buy them at the local Realtor board store.  Do they have one like that there?

@Leslie A. Interesting.  Have you ever been out to Marfa, TX?  They have a nice luxury "mobile home hotel" out there :)

Would a brown crayon work?  Maybe the wax would fill the scratch as well.

I use Chase Quickpay.  I haven't really looked into sparkpay or the other ones mentioned here, but that's bc Quickpay seems to be working out for me.  

Tenants will put in the memo field what property it's for, and they can set recurring payments as well.

The one thing I don't like about it is I have to log on to "accept money".  I don't know why it can't just auto-accept it.