All Forum Posts by: Eric Blanchard

A huge thank you to Jay and Brad for sharing their time and knowledge with us, and for providing an avenue for networking. 

I particularly appreciated hearing a discussion about turnkey without all the hype.

Hey Brad, I thought it was moved to the Bangy Rd location. Did it move back to the Meadows Rd location?

I'd attend Dennis' meeting, hopefully it would be after traffic dies down. 

Hey Bjorn! Welcome to Pdx. Look forward to meeting you in person here in a few weeks. There's also the Rare Bird investor group. I've heard a lot of good things about it, I've met Mike Nuss who runs it and he's a good guy.

Thanks Jay and Brad. I look forward to it.

Welcome to BP! Two years and three deals ago, real estate was a dream to me too. Follow Ben Leybovich and Jay Hinrichs (you can set your account so you are alerted whenever they post) and read all their stuff - it will help you figure out what is good advice and what is ignorance on the forums. And help you make fewer n00b mistakes.  

Same here. Hopefully next time around my wife won't have a baby on the day it is scheduled lol...

Sounds good!

Welcome Darin. There's no right or wrong answer, it's mostly about finding the choice you can live with. Perhaps you could experiment, keep your most of your equity properties with in one LLC, but refi one of them in another LLC where you can experiment with leverage a la Brandon Turner's buy-fix-rent-refi formula. Just a thought, keep talking to lots of people with more experience than me :)

Lol looks like what we find here in Portland, OR - several decades ago there was an invasion of denim-clad homeowners with Big Hair who decided to cover all the hardwoods with garish carpets, possibly because carpet was less likely to get dented when they dropped their pet rocks.