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All Forum Posts by: Andrew Syrios

Andrew Syrios has started 74 posts and replied 10135 times.

Post: New member from Chicago

Andrew Syrios
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  • Residential Real Estate Investor
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 10,502
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Welcome to BiggerPockets Darius and best of luck investing!

Post: Hello everybody I'm 18 and ready to invest

Andrew Syrios
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  • Kansas City, MO
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Welcome to BP Jordie and best of luck investing!

Post: New member from New Albany OH

Andrew Syrios
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  • Kansas City, MO
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Welcome aboard Andrew and best of luck!

Post: Realtor serving Tampa Area Marketplace

Andrew Syrios
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Welcome to BP Rob and best of luck investing!

Post: Hello! Rich from New York

Andrew Syrios
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Welcome to BiggerPockets Richard and good luck investing!

Post: Wilmington, NC Buy and Hold investor.

Andrew Syrios
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Welcome to BP William and best of luck investing!

Post: Real estate agent, Miami, Florida

Andrew Syrios
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Welcome to BiggerPockets Cromwell and good luck investing!

Post: Who did you hire first? How do you start a management company???

Andrew Syrios
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  • Kansas City, MO
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Originally posted by @David Zheng:

Thanks! is the maintenance tech like your full time guy who only works for you essentially and no one else? I feel like ill need hundreds of tenants before I can pay a salary haha...

@Andrew Syrios

 You will need a maintenance tech before you get to hundreds of units, but early on, yes, you probably can't afford to have someone on staff to deal only with maintenance. So early on, using 1099 guys is probably the best way to go. It's hard to say who you should hire first, it depends on a lot of factors and what you intend to be doing. I did most of the office stuff, so it made sense that when we had enough units for someone to come on full time in maintenance, that was our first hire.

Post: New Member from Boston

Andrew Syrios
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Welcome to BiggerPockets John!

Post: Who did you hire first? How do you start a management company???

Andrew Syrios
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  • Kansas City, MO
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Our first hire was a maintenance tech as on-call handymen aren't the most reliable (you would need to pay per hour). A lot of it depends on what part of the business you plan on doing and how much you can trust your on-call handymen with things like late night issues.