Building long term wealth through rental properties.
2017 has been pretty incredible for us. For the past several years, we’ve talked about investing in real estate and buying our first rental property. But that was it. We just talked about it. We took steps towards our goal like growing our savings account …
The Troop and I have been homeless for the past four months. Okay, that’s an exaggeration. We’ve been staying with his parents. But we’ve been without our own home for that long. Please follow and like us:
We know what you’re thinking. “You guys are STILL renovating that place?!” Believe us, we feel the same way. We naively thought we’d be fully complete, with us fully moved in up stairs, unit A rented, and us spending our free time at Fall festivals …
Finding and purchasing your first investment property is intimidating. I know. It took me years to get over the fear and actually take the first step. But it doesn’t have to be! The reason it seems so inconceivable is because it’s such a large concept …
It’s been 5 or 6 weeks since we’ve posted a renovation update on our first investment property. Every week I start to write one, but I don’t think we’ve made enough progress to release a full update. And that’s because a lot of the work …
First things first: Start here to learn about property #1, here for rehab update #1, and here for rehab update #2. Okay, jokes over. Where did the summer go? It’s August and we’ve spent the best of every available day working on the house. Well, …
Growing up, my uncle always told me “cash is king”. And I agree with that which is why our real estate investing niche is buy and hold properties that s cash flow. The term “cash flow” is tossed around a lot when it comes to …
It’s been a little while since we posted an update but life has been BUSY. Over the last month or so, besides juggling this rehab and working our full-time jobs, we also went on a week-long vacation with The Troops family, I traveled to North …
It’s been a few weeks since we closed on our first investment property. Rehab started a little slow. We closed the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, and being big fans of the Jersey shore, we both shot down to the beach within hours of leaving …
Last week, May 26th, we finally closed on our first home and investment property! It’s been a wild past 30 days from trying to figure out how much to bid on a HUD home, dealing with the township and utility company, and then when we …