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A Step-by-Step Guide to Postlets (For the More Experienced User)

January 13, 2016 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

A Step-by-Step Guide to Postlets (For the More Experienced User)

Authors Note: I put together this resource hoping it would help after seeing many questions on Postlets. I am not affiliated with the company nor is this legal advice. All information within this post is my own based on my personal experiences and what I have seen over the years and from belonging to various forums, etc. All addresses and other personal information of applicants have been removed for privacy reasons. As always, my goal is for you … [Read more...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Postlets.com: Part 2

January 12, 2016 by Kathryn Sneed 1 Comment

Postlets.com

Author's Note: I put together this resource hoping it would help after seeing many questions on Postlets.com. I am not affiliated with the company nor is this legal advice. All information within this post is my own based on my personal experiences and what I have seen over the years belonging to various forums. As always, my goal is for you to have the most successful landlording experience as possible. One of my absolutely favorite places to … [Read more...]

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What’s For Dinner? Hello Fresh: Dinner for Two

January 10, 2016 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

What's for dinner

Authors Note: My New Year's resolution is to solve the biggest ulcer-inducing part of life. That's figuring out what's for dinner every night! I am sure I am not the only one, so follow me on this adventure as I discover different ways to answer this question. Please note that this include an affiliate links when you use my coupon code to save $40. While it is at no cost to you, I do appreciate your support. As a millennial DINK couple one of … [Read more...]

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How I Placed a Tenant While Vacationing in Fiji

January 9, 2016 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 2 Comments

How I place a Tenant While Vacationing in Fiji

If you are a returnee and have been following my exploits on Facebook and this website, you will know that I am a huge believer in being transparent. If you are new, welcome. I am a huge believer in sharing the good and bad about being a self-mananaging landlord. While vacationing in Fiji, celebrating the holidays and my birthday (28 feels years young of course), I posted this Facebook post to the military landlord Facebook group I am a … [Read more...]

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10 Ways to Optimize Your Time as a Self-Managing Landlord

January 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

10 Ways to Optimize Your Time as a Self-Managing Landlord

"Someday changing filters, fixing light bulbs, and answering phone calls for plumbing issues at 2 a.m. will cause you to exit self-management." "I tried to add up all the hours I worked on my properties but gave up after six and I was only talking about my renovation." As a non-shy 27-year-old investor who proclaims loudly of my self-managing and Empire Building status, I hear those and more comments often -- if not daily -- and they make … [Read more...]

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What to Put in a Tenant’s Welcome Basket

January 6, 2016 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 6 Comments

What to Put in a Tenant's Welcome Basket

Many landlords like to give a little something to a tenant who's moving in. The small, personal touch can create a great foot forward at the beginning of the landlord-tenant relationship. For that reason, many landlords put together a tenant welcome basket. While I personally no longer provide welcome baskets for my tenants, after a bad experience. Still there are many more landlords who are huge believer in Welcome Basket's as they feel they … [Read more...]

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Why New Service Members Should Rent, Not Buy Furniture

December 22, 2015 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 2 Comments

Why New Service Members Should Rent not Buy Furniture

CORT was gracious enough to sponsor this post but all the opinions and experiences are my own. My husband loves to brag that before he married me moving was much simpler. It truly was, since all of his stuff fit in into his two-door sports car. His first two moves from school and then to Pensacola was easy compared to the moves with 7,000-plus pounds that almost six years of marriage brings along. I still hear today about how life was so much … [Read more...]

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7 Reasons Not to Pay Cash For a House

November 4, 2015 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 7 Comments

7 Reasons Not to Pay Cash for a House

I am $1.1 million in debt by choice. If I reach my goal of owning nine houses by my 28th birthday (1/1/2016), I will be $1.6 million dollars in debt. I am a real estate empire builder whose goal is early retirement by living off the cash flow of our houses. To do so means building my empire large enough that it produces the cash flow needed. Unfortunately, I am young and cash poor, so buying the houses mortgage-free is impossible at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buying or Selling Real Estate, I am a Small Time Landlord, I am an Empire Builder, Lifestyle

10 Tips for the House Hunting Tenant

September 18, 2015 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 1 Comment

10 Tips for the House Hunting Tenant

I remember when we were house hunting for our first rental home. I was a newly married woman of only six months. The only times I had looked for a place I was either with my dad or my husband. In true military wife style, at the ripe age of 22 I was looking for a place while the husband was off at training. Luckily, we were only moving an hour away. Still, I was overwhelmed and honestly had no idea what I was doing. Fast forward five years and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: I am a Renter, Lifestyle

How to Save Money on an Updo

September 15, 2015 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

How to Save Money on an Updo

I am a complete and utter klutz when it comes to doing my hair. I don't know how to use a straightener or curling iron. Let's just say my specialty is a messy bun and brushed hair. This works fine for the normal day-to-day work events or even date night. Where this burns me is the weddings, military balls, and all the other formal occasions that require my hair in an updo. Whenever I needed my hair done and couldn't manage to rope a friend … [Read more...]

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