All Forum Posts by: Katie Miller

Hi!

I also tried biggerpockets/wheretostart, but for some reason the .xls would constantly keep opening skype files. What am I doing wrong here?

Good news. I got the property manager on the phone. It was mistakenly charged as if they had done each task as a different trip, rather than all of them in one trip. The cost should be getting reduced significantly.

Howdy y'all! 

My mom would like me to assume the loan of her house to ensure it remains in my name. She and my stepdad would continue to live in the house and pay for everything (e.g., utilities, mortgage, etc.). Essentially I would become the landlord and they will be tenents. House is currently valued at about 400K. It was purchased for 193K. The remaining FHA loan is 120K. All of us have stable jobs and no other outstanding concerns. The family dynamic isn't a major concern.

Does it seem pragmatic? I'm vacillating because I don't want to miss out on any legal, tax, and other considerations (i.e., Does their equity transfer to me?). 

Maybe y'all can provide your insights.

Do you know who the welcome trolls are? Go into the new member introductions forum and watch for the same few people who say the same basic message every time someone new comes on the site. Don't get me wrong, providing a warm welcome is great, but these welcome trolls are just cutting and pasting the same thing to every new person, so their post activity looks sturdy. However, seeing their post-to-upvote ratio is abysmal because all they do is say welcome and add no value at all. But they aren't the only spammers currently infiltrating the forums.

There are also the cut and pasters and the AI posters. Both are obvious because no one takes that long to structure a post with headings and subheadings for one person; we all know it's cut and paste. Again, don't get me wrong, cutting and pasting obvious info may help someone, but I think it just jams up the forums. For those of us in the forums all the time, we see it repeatedly. And then the AI.

Listen, no one talks like AI. It's not conversational. It's the most obvious read out there when you see it. If all you are doing is asking AI how to respond to someone, you are not adding any value. You are just looking to get more posts up. What is the point of that? Did you also try to become the Mayor on Yelp of the local coffee shop when you were younger? Likely.

If you don't have the time to respond in your voice, based on your own experience, you probably shouldn't spend time in the forums just to say welcome only, cut and paste, or use AI.

I await the first "Who made you the forum police?" response.

@Moderators I spy an AI response from Drago above...

1. Bullet Points

2. Way too long for someone to actually type

3. Extremely vanilla and broad

Conclusion

Please stop AI copy and paste. I'd love to be wrong, but that just does not seem like something one would write out.

@James Carlson Very obvious - paragraphs with headings and then a “in conclusion” statement at the end

@Gary Stark

you should still house hack if you can.  the returns are long term.