All Forum Posts by: J. Martin

@Kyle Zaylor , I'd be interested to talk to you about land development and construction costs in the Bay, if you're getting some familiarity with the area.. As one small part of that, I happen to have 2 SFH's on one lot, and was considering what it would take logistically to do to split them beyond city approval.. Looks like there is a similar split on the next block down.. Not expecting any specific answers, but interested in hearing about some of your experiences - or maybe your experience is mostly commercial right now..

I could potentially be interested in buying something on the back side, although I like to find stuff that's a bit beat up.. See you there!

Welcome Jay. There are a lot of super helpful people and great advice on this site! I’m a ‘fix and hold’ investor from the Bay Area in CA, and loving it! A lot of others doing flips, wholesaling, notes, everything.. A few tips..

You can tag people by typing @ before you type their name, then clicking their name when it pops up at the bottom of the message box. You can click on the ‘vote’ button if you like someone's post or is helpful, and there are ‘awards’ to earn on your profile. The "Learn" link across the top navigation bar has lots of great info, and most importantly, the BP members! Welcome to BP, and good luck on your investments!

Hi Jamie , and welcome to BP! I’m a ‘fix and hold’ investor from the Bay Area in CA, and loving it! But you’ll find a variety of every type of investor on the site, and everyone is amazingly helpful. Some pointers for you: The "Learn" link across the top navigation bar has lots of great info, and so do BP members! You can click on the ‘vote’ button if you like someone's post or is helpful, and there are ‘awards’ to earn on your profile. And you can tag people by typing @ before you type their name, then clicking their name at the bottom of the message box. Welcome to the site, and good luck in everything!

Welcome Toni . There are a lot of super helpful people and great advice on this site! I’m a ‘fix and hold’ investor from the Bay Area in CA, and loving it! A lot of others doing flips, wholesaling, notes, everything.. A few tips..

You can tag people by typing @ before you type their name, then clicking their name when it pops up at the bottom of the message box. You can click on the ‘vote’ button if you like someone's post or is helpful, and there are ‘awards’ to earn on your profile. The "Learn" link across the top navigation bar has lots of great info, and most importantly, the BP members! Welcome to BP, and good luck on your investments!

Hi Philip , and welcome to BP! I’m a ‘fix and hold’ investor from the Bay Area in CA, and loving it! But you’ll find a variety of every type of investor on the site, and everyone is amazingly helpful. Some pointers for you: The "Learn" link across the top navigation bar has lots of great info, and so do BP members! You can click on the ‘vote’ button if you like someone's post or is helpful, and there are ‘awards’ to earn on your profile. And you can tag people by typing @ before you type their name, then clicking their name at the bottom of the message box. Welcome to the site, and good luck in everything!

Hi Mandy , and welcome to BP! I’m a ‘fix and hold’ investor from the Bay Area in CA, and loving it! But you’ll find a variety of every type of investor on the site, and everyone is amazingly helpful. Some pointers for you: The "Learn" link across the top navigation bar has lots of great info, and so do BP members! You can click on the ‘vote’ button if you like someone's post or is helpful, and there are ‘awards’ to earn on your profile. And you can tag people by typing @ before you type their name, then clicking their name at the bottom of the message box. Welcome to the site, and good luck in everything!

OK. That's fine. Thanks Josh.

Btw, this is the message I received, along with a posting explaining the BP decision, from Jon. Again, I appreciate the solution that was implemented by Josh, but I wanted to clarify the reason I made the statement I made regarding the meetup forums... Hopefully you understand why I wasn't real happy for the non-paying community by this decision, so again, I'm glad you addressed it Josh.. Thank you. And no hard feelings..

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@Jimmy T , sorry you can't make it this time. To be notified next time, click on the link in the above post for the forum.

Then click "monitor this topic" at the top of the forum.

When I schedule the next meetup in the East Bay (sometime in February), I will post it on that thread. And you will see the forum update in your "monitored" forums.

Hope to see you there next time!

Thanks @Joshua Dorkin for notifying me of the change with the meetup forums. I think that's a more fair approach than what I understood from the prior email I received. I understand it's a balance, so I'm glad you guys found a solution that doesn't prevent non-paying members from joining the local discussion (saying this as a paying Pro member.) You must have realized why members might not be happy about moving local meetups to a paying-member-only space.. so thanks for addressing that.

"As to any suggestions that you or others make, we have a MASSIVE backlog of projects that we're working on. While we consider ALL ideas from our members, we can't just make a change anytime a user wants something -- that's not the way to run a business, especially an online one."

I of course don't expect you to make a change "anytime a user wants something" - and no need to be sarcastic; please don't be offended - but I really just said that I never received an acknowledgement of the suggestion. It would have been nice to get some sort of acknowledgement or response that a suggestion was submitted - even an auto-reply that it was sent somewhere and said someone was looking at it.. After paying for the Pro account to connect with local members (in addition to being an active member on the community, helping out a lot on the forums, and greeting people to the site..) - then not being able to connect effectively with local members - then not even getting an acknowledgement when I make a suggestion regarding it.. I was a little disspointed.

"Finally, as to your feedback on our PRO accounts, I'm sorry you don't see the value."

The reason I got it was so I could find local, active members on the site. But I cannot seem to do this (or maybe I still just can't figure it out? help..?) When I search locally, I see a bunch of pictures of members, and sort them, but I can't tell how many posts, colleagues, or any other piece of information that tells how active they are. So I click through dozens of profiles, to find they all have 1 or 2 posts, and are never on the forums.. Then buried down there, I see a local I am already colleagues with who posts actively, but I only know that because I personally know they are active..

Any advice Josh on how I can use the Pro features more effectively? I read some of the first postings about it, but didn't seem to be able to figure out how to find active people in my area..

I appreciate the site a lot, am happy to be a member of the community, and appreciate all the moderators' shared knowledge and work on the site. I guess we all get frustrated sometimes though by things that don't work the way we expected them too..

Thanks for any help Josh