Hi’a folks. My first post. Hope I’m in the right spot.
My little brother and his family needed lots of help the last 18 months. And I was able to help them. So things were going okay…
But then a relative offered my brother a job helping the man buy 5 to 10 acres, split it into 5 to 10 lots, toss on cheap mobile homes (total investment $80K per home) and sell each for $120,000 (for a net profit of around $20,000).
Last year the man did 8 homes (his first year in real estate). This year he plans to sell 12, and guaranteed my brother $40K for 2005.
So off my brother went, with his wife and my baby nieces, to a far away state where I (and most of the family) will rarely get to see them again. Maybe once a year.
And I am so mad. >:( And jealous I guess. Not about the money. That is great. But about our family breaking up because there’s not enough money here when I have tried so hard to help already. I have decided to set my furrowed brow toward buying one lot and throwing on one mobile home to see what happens and see if I can sell it. Then repeat, repeat, repeat!!
I hope that maybe they will come back someday soon if I can prove there’s gold in these hills too.
But where do I start? What will my first ‘how-to’ book or video be?? I have no idea. But I do have good credit, decent savings, a good job history, and very little debt.
Sadly, no real estate experience though… and NO CLUE how to set up these deals fast enough to get the babies back while they are still… babies.
Any advice at all would be absolutely terrific.