From the category archives:

Building My Team

New CPA

January 6, 2009

I wasn’t very happy with the CPA that I had been consulting for the past 8 months (which is disappointing considering the 3-part post I write on finding a good CPA). He didn’t seem to be exceptionally knowledgeable about the real estate issues I’d be facing, he wasn’t an investor himself, and frankly, I got […]

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A New Team Member

September 3, 2008

I mentioned in a previous post that The Bulge House had an upcoming tenant, and that the tenant was a member of my family. The rest of the story is that my brother will be moving down to Atlanta from Baltimore (with his girlfriend), will be renting The Bulge House, and will be consulting for […]

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To All Contractors

August 4, 2008

I don’t know if I have any contractors reading my blog, but now that I’ve started getting General Contractor (GC) bids on my first house, I have some recommendations to all the contractors out there who want to step up their game when it comes to doing a walk-through and bidding on a project. Don’t […]

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House #1: Scope of Work

July 30, 2008

I started meeting with contractors this week to get bids on the rehab work for the Corn House. While I was originally only going to get three bids, I screwed up and overbooked and am now on the hook to get about 5 bids on this job (a couple GCs didn’t call me back soon […]

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Finding a General Contractor

July 22, 2008

I’m confident that I’m pretty close to purchasing my first house, and as such, it’s time that I really buckle down and finishing building the team that is going to help make me successful. So far, I’ve built part of that team — I have my CPA, one great real estate agent, two property inspectors […]

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Finding a CPA (Part 3)

May 21, 2008

On the first day of my trip back to Atlanta, I spent much of the day driving around the city and suburbs interviewing CPAs. Let me start by saying I wasn’t at all impressed with the overall quality of the CPAs I spoke with. The bottom of the barrel were the ones who obviously knew […]

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Our House Hunting Trip

May 20, 2008

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we spent a long weekend in Atlanta a few weeks ago looking for a house. In addition to looking at houses, there were a number of other things we were hoping to accomplish on this trip. We spent all day Thursday meeting with CPAs, hoping to find a firm […]

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Finding a CPA (Part 2)

May 14, 2008

I was really hoping to get some personal recommendations for a CPA to use for my business. I really hate cold-calling professionals (even with my list of interview questions), especially since it will likely be difficult for me to determine the great ones from the mediocre ones just based on a 30- or 60-minute discussion. […]

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Finding a CPA (Part 1)

May 13, 2008

Now that I’m getting ready to actually relocate across the country, it’s time to start building my team and defining our business structure(s). With that in mind, the first team member I’ll be looking to find is a really good Certified Public Accountant (CPA), with a specialty in real estate. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able […]

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Building My Investment Team

May 12, 2008

In a previous post, I laid out the outline for my Business Plan. The last section of my plan calls for an overview of the team I need to put together before I start doing deals. Because of my short-term desire to define and create my business structures and ensure that I’m prepared to start […]

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