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Churnin’ and Burnin’ (The Great Credit Card Churn of 2012)
Back in the day, and by that I mean like 2012, I had a knack for finding ways to make lots of money off of credit cards. I’ve already outlined how to do it with prepaid single use gift cards. It used to be even easier, a…
House #5 – 23123 Erwin Pillow Whigs – When Disaster Strikes…
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.…
Rental House #4 – 2434 Erased Diva – How To Get a Free Rental Property!
September 2013 We have now purchased three houses, and we have them rented with tenants who pay on time, and they haven’t burned down. We consider that a massive success. Now we think we are ready to take over the world…
House #3 – 24139 Avidly Wandering – Adding Another Door to the Portfolio
August 2013 Now, we were rocking and rolling with two houses, we had renters, and we had done a pretty significant rehab on the second one. We were now hungry for a third property to continue to build our cash flow snowb…
House #2 – 4210 Chant Teenaged – How to Find Top Notch Contractors to Maintain your Rentals
July 2013 With our first rental, we found a tenant, AND they were paying us rent! They were putting almost 700 dollars in our pocket each month. Delicious. This situation felt so good to us that we started having dreams …
Rental House #1 – How to get $682 Cash-flow on $1,225 Rent
June 2013 How to Buy a Rental House Like a Boss After that fateful lunch in Spring 2013, D and I banded together with three other guys who were eating lunch with us that day. Our goal was to buy some rental houses, and h…
Churning Credit Rewards for Thousands of Dollars a Year…
One thing I’ve done over the last few years is “churn” credit card rewards. And I’m not just talking, make the minimum spend requirements to get a bonus type of churning, but real makin’ butter type of churn. Some people…
Zero to 50 Rental Houses in 5 Years…
The day I decided I was going to get rich was March 8th, 2013. I remember it was a Friday, and I was meeting some friends for lunch. We always went to this restaurant during Lent, because they sold fish tacos half price.…