All Forum Posts by: Jon Klaus

I’d like to do some YouTube videos for marketing my SFRs for lease/purchase. Have you seen home marketing videos you really like? I’d like to see some quality and creativity for inspiration.

Can you point me towards any? Or do you have ideas for engaging video?

If the soil is unstable or prone to expansion and contraction the slab could crack. Plumbing problems in or under the slab can be major repairs. We have almost all slabs on recent homes in my area--big problems are not too common.

Hi Curtis,

Welcome to BiggerPockets, the most valuable REI website I know of.

What kind of projects are you looking to develop and where?

How is Beaumont recovering from that big storm last Fall? Any opportunities come from it for you?

And Vincent, it's ironic given your post, that your website is called financethedream.

Not throwing stones, I was just on the Amerisave and Bankrate websites checking out mortgage rates.

"Amazingly, this market is turning all of us debt mongers who lived large on leverage into our grandfathers and great grandfathers who survived The Great Depression and then paid cash for everything."

The Wall Street Journal just reported that the US savings rate in May was the highest since 1993. We pretty much quit buying new cars. Maybe we are learning.

Josh, does it help to cancel credit cards that you are not using and have no plans to use?

Jason, Is this in OK? What city? You should be able to find homes in many areas of OK that will rent monthly for 2% of their purchase price.

Seems pretty simple to create a note and loan the $$ to the LLC. Create a paper trail that makes sense.

"Stop spending it, you will have it to invest"

Ah, discipline and deferred gratification. I though this was supposed to be easy!

Also easier to have muliple investors with the flexibility to buy or sell shares along the way.