Lisa Phillips

20
Jan

BiggerPockets Reblog: What A Working Class Neighborhoods Is… And Isn’t

BiggerPocket Reblog. Click Here To See The Full Article! It seems that the mainstream discussion about depressed housing seems to have one broad brush strokes on all depressed housing (priced anywhere from 15k-45k), as if every neighborhood in the country has the same characteristics. And despite the fact that we say the truism that real estate is local, the conversation

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20
Jan

BiggerPockets Reblog: What A Working Class Neighborhoods Is… And Isn’t

BiggerPocket Reblog. Click Here To See The Full Article! It seems that the mainstream discussion about depressed housing seems to have one broad brush strokes on all depressed housing (priced anywhere from 15k-45k), as if every neighborhood in the country has the same characteristics. And despite the fact that we say the truism that real estate is local, the conversation

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17
Jan

0074 Dawn Anastasi and Sub 30k Real Estate Investing

Today I have Dawn Anastasi on as a guest who also invests in homes that are under 30k. I guess its because we are both in IT, but the numbers just made so much more sense this way, which is why we invested in these working class neighborhoods while everyone else told us to stay away. Please listen to the

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14
Jan

0073 Emergency Credit Part II

This may help give you some solid guidance on raising your credit score! This is to follow on my earlier video on emergency credit. I needed to replace a roof (I should have replaced 2 years ago, when i simply repaired it). I was applied to 6 different credit cards, and was approved for 2 that had 6-9 months 0%

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13
Jan

0072 BiggerPockets Reblog: A Year To Do A Rental Property Renovation? Sometimes….

BiggerPockets Reblog: A Year To Do A Rental Property Renovation? Sometimes…. See Article On BiggerPockets Here’s a little story about a year long odyssey of my year long renovation of my second rental property. I paid 13k for a row home in Baltimore, MD and it took me a year to complete the renovation and get a tenant in. I’ll

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8
Jan

0071 BiggerPockets Reblog: Check Your Emotions At The Door, Newbies!

7
Jan

0070 Interview Joe Fairless’ First Apartment Syndication Deal

This is an amazing interview with Joe Fairless, someone who jumped from four rental income properties, to raising a 1.3 million dollars to acquire his first apartment building. Please joins us as you get into : 1) The art of syndication and raising money 2) unique traits that Joe brought to the table 3) How Joe purchased 4 rental properties

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6
Jan

0069 Audience Question: Investor Friendly RE Agents, Investing Outside of California, and More

Here are a few more audience questions for today: 1) How can a Real Estate Agent people know she is Investor Friendly 2) How do you know when you have a deal? 3) California is expensive, can I invest out of state?

2
Jan

0068 An Interview about College Campuses and Working Class Communities

Please listen to this interview with Alex Anderson, a Milwaukee, WI real estate investor, as we discuss his low balling offers, and his burgeoning niche market of working class Thai, Hmong, Laotian community for cash flow. This is an interview filled with a lot of insight into how one can go about making deals on houses and for renters.

29
Dec

0067 BiggerPockets Reblog: Learning the Hard Way Why You Should Invest In Landlord Friendly States

BiggerPockets Guest Post #4: Learning the Hard Way Why You Should Invest In Landlord Friendly States Here I’ll explain the differences in investing in tenant friendly versus landlord friendly states, and how that has shaped my real estate investments strategy going forward.