This Channel takes you along with me on my investments in real estate and gives you a glimpse into my personal philosophy on making simple investments with potential for great returns. I invest in vacant land, lots, acreage as a core business and also do flip houses from time to time. i have interests in all things finance and investment related and am on a constant quest to take investments that seem on the surface complicated and try to simplify and understand them in an attempt to grow my knowledge and portfolio. Join my journey in real estate, finance, stock market and other various investment adventures.
Normally would be properties with high equity and a lot of them are estates that never got settled after an owner passed away and the taxes accumulated or is going into foreclosure…the situations can vary greatly but it’s generally properties that have high equity situations.
The letter has worked for me on Houses and Land, just a simple handwritten letter. I’ll be happy to send you an example just send me an email and I’ll get it to you. simplyinvestedtv@gmail.com
Love the content, just subscribed! How quickly do you think you can do a subdivide from start to finish? I've been wholesaling houses, but wanting to get into new development. Learning the subdivide process seems like a better business model with developing being the end goal!
Very informative. Really appreciating your content. I was wondering on this one why the pergola was so far away from the RV pad? Seems like it would be just to the side of the RV.
Hello! Thanks for checking out the video! On this particular one the lot was pretty narrow, like 30 ft wide so if the RV had slide outs and what not it would be tight or possibly not functional so we put the Pergola away from the RV pad
Hi, I was wondering if you can put concrete slabs under a mobile home that's already set up. Our mobile home keeps getting unlevel because it's a large mobile home 32x80 and they didn't tell us that it would be best to have it on runners when we brought it. We are having to relevel every year almost.
Hello, I hate to say it’s not possible but the challenge would be getting the concrete slab level with a huge home on top of it…depending on how much clearance you have to work with under the home a full slab or large runners may be difficult to pour. Another option could be pouring concrete piers where you have your blocking for the home and then securing the home and blocks to those individual piers and leveling the home from there…basically digging a hole where the blocks are…filling it with concrete and then the weight of the home is on a concrete pier a couple feet into the ground…just a couple ideas…hope this helps!
Doors and outside light fixtures, pressure wash everything, repaint all the white on the exterior, remove window units, add mini-splits, add a real stove, put the microwave above it and a fridge next to it. Gravel or shell driveway.
Good Job with the flip. I occasionally buy vacant land like you. I don't know enough about all the possible pitfalls in buying an auction deed to feel comfortable investing in those. My biggest concern general with buying props at auction is my concern on being able to get a warranty deed/ title insurance from missing something in a preliminary title search that I may do before bidding. What was the reason you had to wait for 1 yr to get the title insurance? (was it because it was a sheriffs deed). How do you overcome this issue on being sure you can get a good deed and title insurance before spending the money on it?
Covering up the concrete in plastic or spraying it to stay wet would make it much stronger from what I’ve read. Particularly since it’s so hot and the sun is drying it very quickly.
Here's what I heard: $86,000 clayton display model, with Vinyl skirting -- (no cost of land mentioned) --$2,040 (8 pallets of grass & lay down labor) -- ( I didn't hear you mention numbers for cost of gravel in driveway, nor fence cost) --$2,500 driveway concrete pad --$2,000 landscaping timbers, deck skirting wood, mulch, plants, water hose & sprinklers --$2,800 for licensed plumber hookup --$9,000 septic --$6,000 runners (2500 concrete labor, 2500 concrete materials & delivery, 1000 lumber for forms) = $110,340 (excluding costs of land, driveway gravel, wood fence ... which I didn't hear numbers mentioned for) Sound about right?
Compacted select fill…we’re building on the Texas coast…the soil is all sand…we clear the vegetation off the top, bring In select fill sand (mixture of clay and sand) wet and compact it, then pour in the concrete. Thanks for checking out the channel and the video!
As a graduate of one of the oldest academic schools of Construction and about 40 years of relevant experience, I wish to tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Thank you for including not only the crafts, but also the business side in your comments section. School would have been much easier had we had videos like yours as learning aids.
That's cool, for longer life put yellow plastic casing around the wood or metal pole. then fill them with cement. Could do them in yellow case sections let them dry.
What do you do if the end buyer doesn't want to give you the full price because he the septic tank wasn't in his plans of what he wants and will probably rip it out? I'm thinking about putting in a septic tank but I'm wondering if installing it will increase my sales price by a lot or if it is going to sell for the same price anyway making the installation pointless...
Know your buyer, if you don’t think the septic tank will add value don’t add it is my opinion…septic tanks are designed to handle the use of the structure so if you don’t know what the structure is going to be a septic system can be highly speculative.
I had an overall good experience with them and the quality of the home was what I expected, I will say that I was very involved in the lot preparation process and all of the auxiliary parts of the home purchase and I can see where if I had let the home dealership and their contractors handle all of that that I believe it could have gotten frustrating but as far as my experience I educated myself with what permits and procedures the county wanted from me, I talked to the delivery folks before I ever purchased the home to understand what were key things I needed to be on top of for the delivery…I talked to engineers that specifically design concrete runners and pads for manufactured homes and they were able to give me great information before I ever bought the home….basically I would recommend asking as many questions directly to the different teams involved in the process and not just blindly trusting the dealership salesperson to guide you on best practices…they’re guiding you towards a sale and I don’t think that’s bad in and of itself but you should make them work for your business and ask them to provide you with the information and the phone numbers of all involved parties and ask away until you’re satisfied and comfortable with moving forward with a purchase. I believe that to be a good general strategy and not just for Clayton Homes, but it was a very nice home for the price and the customer service I received from the dealership was very good.
