All Forum Posts by: Jay Bedovoy

Thanks for that input @Drew Sygit.  Those sound like valid points and speaking as a newbie I can confirm that it's often stuff someone like me would not consider (at least not ALL of those points).

Thanks @Dylan Thomas and you as well @Travis Wylie. I'll dm you so we can discuss this further. Appreciate the help... 

Hey folks, I've been lurking on these forums for months soaking up everything that I can before I make the jump on my first investment property.  

Background: I'm in NYC so investing locally is not an option as things are WAY overpriced around here. My family used to own a vacation home in PA many years ago so I sort of know the Pocono area a bit. However, from what I've read it's better to focus on places like Harrisburg or Carlisle. The way i figure it, these locations have good opportunities in terms of both cashflow and appreciation, are far enough from NYC to be smart investments, but close enough that I can travel there within a few hours by car if ever the need should arise. Ideally I'd do a SFH as a first run, but my subsequent purchases may very well be multi-famly.

What I think I need to do is get in touch with local realtors to actually start seeing properties. The stuff I see on Zillow and Trulia just don't have the COC and total ROI numbers needed once I factor in things like property management, vacancy, repairs, etc. So I'm hoping that a realtor who understands what I'm looking for might be better able to feed me leads where the numbers work.

With all of that out of the way, would anyone care to offer contact information for a realtor (or anyone else for that matter) that could help me in my search within Harrisburg or Carlisle?  Preferably someone with whom you've conducted business and have had a good experience.

Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for any help.

Wait, so am I to understand that Zach Lemaster is part of USREEB?  I was under the impression that he was on his won with RentToRetirement.com.  Maybe he's just using the new name to get deals signed as USREEB's PM has a terrible rep here?  I just had my initial phone conversation with him and there was no mentioned of USREEB at all.

He did mention the one month rent fee to put a new tenant into the property though.  So perhaps this is all one big shell game?