All Forum Posts by: Jesse Freeman

@Nick Harrington

To make the transition properly (to Universal Plumbing Code) you have to use a dialectic union to make that transition however you will have to solder a pex or cpvc adapter into the dialectic union. However to avoid having to solder you can just get a Pex X Female Iron Pipe Adapter (Or using a Male Iron pip adapter and a galvanized coupling.) With my experience I would highly recommend avoiding using shark bite fittings at all costs because I have seen several blow apart and flood entire houses. 

As far as pex verses CPVC I would recommend pex for a couple reasons

1). Pex was designed to be very resiliant (you can freeze the pipes 2 or 3 times before it will burst and if you catch it before it does freeze that many times you can heat up the pipe and it will return to it's original form.

2). if you use too much glue for the CPVC it will actually keep welding the plastic and can get too thin to the point of burst pipes. (This happened to a hotel near me where the builder used too much glue on almost all the fittings and now they are ripping out all the cpvc pipes in the whole hotel.)

3). Pex is much easier and quicker to run.

This has just been from my experience as a plumber. Hopefully it helps and will save you some head ache in the future.

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I still am working out the details of the plan to achieve this goal. Between my wife and I we can purchase and pay for 4 fourplex's within 7 years and then from their I was thinking of selling them with a 1030 exchange (atleast I think that is what it is called.) and purchasing a bigger apartment complex. However, I've also been running the numbers on a couple of different other scenarios to figure out what the best proposed plan is.

@Peter MacKercher thanks I will. And hopefully I'll see you Tuesday night.

@Frankie Woods Thanks man. That's net.

@Darren Budahn Thanks. ha ha touche. And thanks for the input. I really appreciate it.

That's my goal. just getting started into investing in real estate and will have my first property under contract hopefully within the next couple of months.

I'm planning on reaching this goal through buy in hold in the St. Louis area.

Any tips or advice is gladd welcomed. And I'm going to continue to engage and learn as much as I can from getting out their and from engaging everybody on BP.

Thanks =)

That's awesome. Good for you man.