Buying our Freedom, One Rental Property at a Time...
Time to Talk About “Current” Rental Houses As I dig through the archives of my brain trying to piece together the history that makes up each of our deals over the years, I had the chance to watch the movie Memento. While the plot does not apply here, the way...
January 2016 29107 Dogtrotted Linens We are starting the new year with a bang. We had a fantastic holiday season, and it had been only THREE days since we closed on house #27. We found House #28 (29107 Dogtrotted Linens, off the MLS of all places. If you want a...
June 2015 Rental house #24 – 2015 Cheever Din Pricker OK, guys get ready, we are about to go a tear here as now we have a self-sustaining rental house machine that is churning out a decent amount of cash each month and allows us to replenish a fund for...
May 2015 House #23 29019 Ethernet Toasters OK, guys, we were so happy after we got House #22 up and running, so we wanted to do it all over again. We got a call from one of our trusty wholesalers who had a contract he needed to re-assign stat! My...
January 2015 I know its been a while since our last recap on house #19; however, life got in the way with soccer games, kid’s concerts, and weddings. You know, all the things that we are trying to focus on instead of working or making money, but let’s get back...
3-6-2015 House #19 2014 Chou Dow Route – A long-term hold We grabbed house #19 off yellow letters yet again. I know it sounds really mundane how we source these deals, but we are creating a cash flow snowball, and it’s starting to gain some serious momentum. 2014 Chou Dow...
8/2014 2350 Sauntering Sunlamp – Duplex #2 As soon as we got House #14 locked down, we were all ready to go on a second duplex nearby. We found this property through our yellow letters yet again. These letters are making us so much money! Somehow, those little yellow letters...
December 2013 For house #7 on our asset list, it came from yellow letters once again. We got a call, and my partner, D, negotiated an excellent price for this three-bedroom, two-bath house. They were moving out very soon and were prepared to sell. It needed a little updating and...
My hand was shaking when I signed the loan documents. We had such a good plan, but I was still terrified. We laugh now thinking about this dumpy little 2 bedroom house with a flat roof and window AC units. We paid $45,000 on this thing and spent 2 months...
September 2013 Now we were really cookin’! We had officially lifted a house 12 whole inches and rehabbed most of the inside very inexpensively. We then creatively financed the house and pulled all of our money out of it. There had to be more deals out there like house #4....
