Russ,
I enjoy reading your posts, your positivity comes through.

I beleive there are lots of people out there working high paid jobs with cash to spare and little money. Your offer to combine your personal time with others money seems genuine.

I like the idea of this forum being a place to join in and investigate potential real estate…[Read more]

Great thread you have started Monopoly,

I started out with the intentions of kind and giving, got burnt a number of times and gave false hope to certain people in the process.

I have re-evaluated and now go for FIRM BUT FAIR.[medieval]

Do you think the wife would be pulling hubbys arm when the TV store refuses to drop it’s price on the top of…[Read more]

Extras were:
Furnishings = Beds, Desks, fridge, Washing Machine, Dining table, couches, pots, pans, and other kitchen stuff (you can get a lot from $2 shop which helps tenants settle in).Towels, linen and everything needed for first night.

Include gas, elec, water all in rent.

Bonus 1100W oil column heaters for rooms (will save heaps on bills,…[Read more]

Sheeze,
I must have fluked a gold mine. I have a tenant who is a painter.
I buy paint (best quality i can get), I throw him about $200 cash per room, and he does a great job. I can’t even keep him out of the garden, he has added $1000 of value to my properties, [greedy]

I just have to keep him supplied with tools and equipment. It screws up the…[Read more]

I have one example of increasing rent from $130 to $315 per week by going the extra yards for tenants.

Acey, Would you like to buy shares in my amusement park business now or later?
[dead2]
Lucifer, All my payments are automatic transfers, no probs so far.[cowboy2]

I am pro-extras for tenants. Why limit the satisfaction and service you…[Read more]

Sky_Jobe

Network Marketing is a business you enter into where you take on all the promotion and sales of the larger company. It might be groceries.
Usually have a support group of up-lines who encourage and guide you. Bit like a salesman.
You then take a proportion of profits of any customers you bring into the company. And then you get another…[Read more]

hi word,
I am very interested in the idea of offering extras as part of rental agreements. I beleive you can turn an property well and truly cash flow positive this way.

I have students in some of my properties, and the first thing they ask is “we need the internet”

Do you have that 1800 number.

How many connections do you think would be needed…[Read more]

Thanks for encouragement guys.[hat2]

lifexperience

So i get back to work which is in complete chaos, one of those fridays!!!

Later the cops call me ” erm. this is senior constable steve, ” asks me all sorts of questions about tenants and the house and my involvement. I am helpful, i got nothing to hide. They tell me they are taking care of things, ….whatever.

Then a call from the ex-owner…[Read more]

Part 2.

Quick recap, finally got last owners out of house, cleaned the pig sty, then placed new tenants. Then.. that phone call.

Now it was mid afternoon friday when i got that call. There were many breakdowns at work, which i am supposed to fix, so i have very little time to fret. I get another phone call later that afternoon from the last…[Read more]

sis,
Good questions.

Sacrificing time with close ones in exchange for “getting ahead”, works well in theory in my head. Maybe an hour sacrificed now to research IPs may end up with much more time later for quality time, when $$ not an issue.

But my heart has been questioning lately. Am i weakening friendships, am i losing the opportunity to…[Read more]

Monopoly and y’all,
I have been so hyped with early ip purchases, that as soon as the topic comes up, i get too excited to notice any negative feedback,

1. point out i had a humble beginning (started working and with nothing)and that

2. I have great goals (retire in 12 months) and then

3. point out that maybe they should too. Within ten…[Read more]

Go for it recoveryman, I hope you manage a smooth transition. Be careful and gooluck!!
[angel]

lifexperience

Chan,
You can have my job now!! small print reads LifeX will receive 50% royalties from pay

“But c’mon y-know, that it’s hard to complain about the way you live, way you live” quote unquote Powderfinger Lyrics.

I know you will find a way Chan[thumbsup2]

lifexperience

Mysta, if you can’t find cash +ve props, can you make them?

Maybe consider extras and unorthodox tenant groups. You may have to get your hands dirty instead of relying on pamphlet house prices and Real Estate Agent Property Managers.[curtain]

Russ, Have you considered doing the 2 week R.E. Agents Representative course and throwing a few bucks to…[Read more]

The computer guy at work suggested “Could you plug a computer into the outgoing work phone line and use your own server?

[bulb]

lifexperience

I could go on and on …but…

What is more important doing daily tasks like washing or working or putting time towards building the life you want?[guitar]

lifexperience

Pisces, and all others. [daisy]

To quote Bear

Self sabotage comes in many forms, wether it is a personal attack on oneself physically (grog, drugs etc), mentally (paranoia, self doubt, procrastination) or financially (sabotaging ones own success).
I know this pain. I can tick all of these about 12 months ago. And I got myself into a lonely…[Read more]

Chan, you can have my job when I retire (soon hopes).
I work in the evenings waiting for breakdowns and get a lot of time surfing forum.win win win

Great thread by the way [specool]

lifexperience

I’ll second that motion, cel.

Anyone else wanna sign up [dead2]

lifexperience