All Forum Posts by: Robert Jelinek

So the people are mostly bigger portfolio people I have come across in the local industry who have also given me the time of day as well. One being a rental property owner/manager as well as very knowledgeable real estate agent. She can turn hours of research into an answer in one 30 second text. She has also introduced me to other property investor/managers with many many properties in their portfolios. Maybe I'm looking at a certain type too early? I really like the Brrrr strategy as it solves most of the issues of rentals up front. You can solve most of the day to day pitfalls up front and generally make a great long term property! But those generally aren't the prettiest properties up front, require work in between, and the a guestimate of what it will be at the end. Now you can plug as many factors into your shiny proposals but conventional loans generally don't like concepts, and private investors give you the experience talk every time, and I don't necessarily have a huge amount of equity in my current home to pull a big enough chunk to fund any sizeable project... Maybe I just need to put that strategy on the backburner for now until I can get some solid investment leads and maybe focus on a different strategy? 

Hello all!

Been following bigger pockets for a very long time! Due to a pregnancy and special needs newborn, I took a step back right before taking the plunge on my first deal awhile back to take care of family first. Well finally back at it and running into the same conundrum I had before I took my break. "we would love to invest once you get 1-2 under your belt, but I need help to get the first one or two completed" haha I can only laugh! Anyways wanted to reach out for any idea's to help figure out how to get through that hurdle... I have a bunch of contacts with real estate investors and rental property owners and they all say the same thing about you can show all these reports or numbers, but you haven't done one yet so until you get a few under your belt then we will see... Anyways if anyone has had similar issues and found maybe niches or funding to do smaller projects I would love to hear some ideas from the community! Thanks for having me, I'm excited so see what can happen!

Robert