All Forum Posts by: Mike F.

You can't put your google voice number in your phone contact list and make it show up that way?

That's a non issue then. Closed is positive, 6 years of good credit since then is positive. I'd be looking at all the rest of your criteria, make sure there is no red flags.

Sounds like you got it resolved.

On a side note - you seriously collect DNA from your tenants dogs to find out which one is pooping and not picking it up?

Possibly. Depends on a lot of things, who the collections were to, how old they were, how they came of when you personally met with them, what their references are like and what they said, and how willing they would be to put down a huge security deposit.

I wouldn't let it go, small claims court is easy. My advice is three words that probably would make a huge difference in how you are seeing all this - LARGE SECURITY DEPOSIT, consider how this may have played out differently with one? 

My sample size is huge and going on 30 years of being in the construction industry and being called by homeowners every day and seeing the crap done by flippers, homeowner after homeowner says the exact same thing "If I'd known this was a flip I never would have bought it". Most flippers should be put in jail for the short cuts, non-permited work and plain criminal negligent work they do. You know it's true as well as everybody else, it's the rare flipper who does anything even resembling care and quality. This website is filled with 10,000 posts from flippers looking for the cheapest contractors they can find and thousands or crying flippers with the results they get by hiring the lowest of the barrel. You get what you pay for. You might not like me talking about the truth, but you and I both know it true. If the shoe doesn't fit you so be it, but don't pretend you don't know what goes on. If you think you're set apart from them then you already have the evidence since you're making the comparison. Please don't tell me that the majority of flippers you've ran across over the years were on your level, you know that's not true.

Sounds nice, how much would my monthly payment be on one of those?

LOL

I never said anything about custom cabinetry.  

IKEA is a Euro style cabinet system versus an American style cabinet system. (hanging rail versus soild box installation) - In Europe it's common for apartment owners to own their cabinetry, they take it with them when they more, hence you see a rail mount system and cabinetry sitting on legs. American style cabinetry is a permanent installation the cabinets are owned by the apartment owner and stay with the apartment. (IKEA - designed off a temporary installation system, American cabinetry is designed as a permanent installation) IKEA even worse is a knock down product designed to be shippable in flat boxes, American cabinetry is permanently assembled delivered in finished size.

Apples to apples is standard factory built American style cabinetry versus Euro style. Custom cabinetry isn't even in the equation, that's a another whole level higher.

IKEA is a removable cabinet system it's a square peg in a round hole for American kitchens, American kitchens are American homes the cabinetry is owned by the owner of the home not the tenant the cabinetry is permanent. 

Flippers don't even have a clue about any of the above, they don't know that IKEA is a Euro system, they just see a lower price and think it's just cabinetry they can buy cheaper, which is what flippers are only concerned with, flippers love putting lipstick on pigs as long as they can fool their buyers.

Well, if we are really going to go there, then let's do so...

50% of the political population in government retains and increases it's powers by trying to convince the population of this country that they are powerless and just victims. This message has been there to increase their voter base and keep them in office. The message is "You're powerless against the rich, you need me to look out for you, without me in office to battle the rich they will make you more powerless."

They've changed the message in America from if you're financially successful it's because you're living in the land of opportunity and you worked hard... to it doesn't matter what you do, if you're wealthy you did it on the backs of the poor and took advantage of them.

The millineal generation has the lowest numbers in history of looking at owning a business as being the best path to wealth. Wonder why? What's the message they have grown up on ?

That 50% of the political population never talks to the public about :

"You're responsible for your own success in life, you can succeed you can rise into the middle class and above if you work to do so. "

That's never the message. The message is you're a victim, it doesn't matter what you do, you will never succeed because the rich take advantage of you. Their message is not work harder and move up from minimum wage, their message is "I want to double the minimum wage and make your life easy but the rich won't let us"

Think about that, it's little wonder with those messages everywhere that people act the way they do

Flippers don't care about who buys the house, as long as the lipstick stays on the pigs lips long enough to get through close they met their goals

See this typical flipper post for evidence:

My contractor and I have constantly been disagreeing (friendly of course) on the amount of work to complete the project. My mindset (that has worked well for me so far) is make the house cosmetically attractive as far as the usual paint, flooring, fixtures, landscaping, trim, cabinets, ect. If it's a saftey issue it gets fixed.

The contractor on other hand is all about re-wiring a lot of the house when in my opinion it's not needed because everything works just fine. The issue is every time he wants to do things like this, I cringe because all of these things add a lot of cost without adding value and pretty soon we're way over budget. I tell him a person could work on a house for an entire year and still not be (done). You can't do everything and expect to make money. His philosophy is that I'm cutting corners and not doing it right. This is only one example.