All Forum Posts by: Joe Cummings

Didn't work out that well. It seemed to only bring in tire kickers and some sleeze bags who gave me the feeling they would mess up the property and then go bad on the morgage. It could probably be done if you had something in the contract to limit the uses and were able to inspect for violations. 

Seemed like more trouble than it was worth, so I sold some residential properties instead and am using the building 

I have a 9,000 sf truck terminal / shop on 2.65 acres I want to sell. I was thinking about financing the deal. Asking price would be about 250k. Does asking for 50k down seem unreasonable? Also I was wondering about limitations on property use in the finance agreement to deal with the potential that the buyer might cause environmental damage to the property.

I have never financed commercial property, so I'm open to any experienced investors advice on other concerns

It's all over up there. And it's cheap to burn. Almost pure carbon, burns real clean. Totally local product, very little transportation cost. Stoker technology is pretty good.  Ash, may or may not be a problem. Seems like "rice" is the size you want for the automated feed screw.

 And while they are there picking up the stuff for free, they are casing the place for stuff to take when no one is around.

As a homeowner I have never even been asked if I rent or own for trash service.

If someone did, I'd just call a different trash company.

 I'm not seeing this happening from having a hot and a neutral swapped.

This is a residential, single phase, 120/240V service isn't it?

Heater runs on 120V?

Watch out for guys who use the term "shorted" to describe almost all electrical failures. Seriously, anybody who knows what they are doing usually won't.

"Nothing short about this circuit"

The Three Stooges - A Plumbing We Will Go by bala1us

Whoever built that garage addition scrimped on the foundation. I'll bet it sunk over an inch.

You might be able to save the house, but that garage is history.

Probably a pretty good area. I've been looking at it myself. 

Just don't get tempted by the "patch towns" with the low prices. Seems like a lot of them are full of hillbillies on heroin.

Read the Standard Speaker, and the Scranton/Wilkes Barre papers to get a feel for where the busts are going on.

To be just like my childhood hero

I'm going to say what nobody seems to say.

If you aren't part of the political "in crowd" there, chances are you're due diligence efforts are going to be wasted.

If you are talking to receptionists,,,,,,,,,,

The guys who get there deals done, have the real decision makers private cell phone numbers, and know each other on a close first name basis