Achieving your FI number in just four years? If you want to do it too, you must try something different. This couple found a niche within a niche, allowing them to hit the coveted “1% rule” in real estate, skyrocketing their cash flow and passive income and allowing them to make more than almost any other landlord in their area. So, how did they do it, and what was the investment that got them there?
David and Morgan Stanhope weren’t real estate investors five years ago. They didn’t come from investor families and had zero real estate investing experience. One day, at his job as a New York State Police Investigator, David met a mentor who would change how he thought about money, financial freedom, and passive income. This was perfect because David and Morgan were already in a great place to invest—Upstate New York. But David chose NOT to invest in his home market, and for good reason.
They went south to a state known for higher home prices and crushingly high insurance costs. There, they found a creative rental property investing strategy, allowing them to make much more cash flow than regular rentals. Four years later, they’ve surpassed their $10,000/month FI goal. Now, they’re on track to hit an even bigger achievement: $70,000 per MONTH. Today, we’re talking to them about exactly how they’re getting there with investment properties you’ve probably never heard (or thought) about.
Mindy:
Have you thought to yourself, it’s just too hard to invest in this market, or it’s too late. I’ve missed all the good deals. On today’s episode, we are going to hear a story that will make you believe that investing in real estate and reaching financial independence is still possible even in 2024. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the BiggerPockets Money podcast. My name is Mindy Jensen, and with me as always is my real estate believer, co-host Scott Treach.
Scott:
Thanks, Mindy. I really appreciate all of these wonderful creative intros that you come up with. Every week, BiggerPockets has a goal of creating 1 million millionaires. You’re in the right place if you want to get your financial house in order because we truly believe financial freedom is attainable for everyone, no matter when or where you’re starting or whether you live in a great investment market. But choose voluntarily to forego it and invest in another state hundreds of miles away. Today we’re going to discuss how David and Morgan started their real estate investing journey in 2020 and scaled their portfolio to 10 properties in just under four years. We’re going to talk about how they plan to continue to scale their portfolio to reach their fine number of $70,000 a month from real estate investing and how they’re making it work in this market cycle, including their most recently purchased deal here in 2024 that produces a great cash on cash return with an 8% mortgage. David and Morgan, thanks so much for hopping on today. Thank you for having
David:
Us. We’re excited to be here.
Morgan:
Hey Guys.
Mindy:
So I’m looking for a snapshot of your money story. Morgan, I’m going to go with you first. Where does your journey with money begin?
Morgan:
So my journey with money began when I was a young child. I grew up in a divorced household and both my parents raised me on and off their time. But the cool thing is they got us a savings account when we were really young, early nineties. So every week I would take my pass book to the bank and I would get in real time how much money was in my account. But that was really it. My parents would deposit money for things like household chores, and then when I became old enough to start working at 14, I would then deposit my own money. But that was really how my childhood looked. My parents never ever talked about what a 401k was, what an IRA was anything to do with their jobs. So they really just said, save your money for a rainy day and spend your money on things, which is weird to me. So every year my mom would take her income tax and bring us on vacation. So I grew up with doing certain things like going on trips instead of buying tangible items, if that makes sense to you.
Mindy:
Yeah. Experiences over possessions.
Morgan:
Yeah, over possessions.
Mindy:
David, how about you? What did your upbringing look like?
David:
Yeah, similar. So I grew up, well actually I guess to even back it up, I was adopted when I was three months old from Calcutta, India and grew up in Rhode Island. We grew up in a middle class family. My dad was a computer programmer and my mother was a social worker, and money was never a big topic for us. We knew to save money, we knew to invest your money with CDs at banks and real estate and 4 0 1 Ks were never a discussion in our household. David Morgan, could you tell us what you do for work?
Morgan:
So I was actually a special education teacher for years until we had our son in 2017, and that’s when we discussed am I going to continue working or am I going to stay home? So with the cost of childcare, it was just a no-brainer for me to leave my career to raise our son, and we knew in the future that we wanted to have more kids. So I became a stay-at-Home parent.
David:
So for me, I’m a New York State police investigator. I work with the Counter-Terrorism Unit, and we work with the FBI. So to give you an overview of what I do, my role is to essentially make sure another nine 11 never happens in New York State. Again, we make sure that there’s no domestic terrorism in New York, and that’s the focus of what I do for work.
Scott:
Awesome. Thank you very much for doing that and keeping us all safe here. It’s wonderful. And remind me what in the general sense of the state do you guys live in New York?
David:
So we’re up toward the Adirondacks, right near Lake George and Saratoga Springs.
Scott:
Awesome. And this is notable, I believe, because I attended, well obviously I was at BP Con 2023 and I had this thesis in my mind that upstate New York is the best place to invest because of the changes from Covid. Everyone’s moving out to these areas. It’s beautiful in the summer, you got all these fancy things, that cash flow is great. And I am talking about this thesis and David comes in and we’re at that bar and he goes, you are crazy here. I live there and I would never invest here and I invest out of state. So with that prompting, can you tell us, and let’s tease that up for later, I’d love to hear about the thesis here, but how did you get into real estate investing? How did that start, get set up? Give me a little bit of background about your wealth building journey leading up maybe to 2017 and the changes that came about when you guys had your son.
David:
So we moved back to New York from Arizona wise in the Air Force, and so I joined state police in 2014. I was a trooper on the road and I was promoted to the position as an investigator in 2019. So with state police, we have a pension, we have a 401k, and those are the foundation that we had going into real estate.
Scott:
Awesome. And you guys are, I imagine also accumulating wealth at a pretty good clip in the years from 2014 to 2019 that you just previewed here. Could you give us your mindset on how you spend budget and otherwise think about accumulating wealth?
David:
Absolutely. So I think we’re very much similar to everyone else in terms of when we moved back, we built a custom home. We both have vehicles. We’re doing everything everyone else is doing. We’re doing everything. Everyone that’s middle class is doing, we’re saving money, but not to the degree that we are now. And I think going along that path, and then once Covid happened and then Morgan’s at home with their children, that was the catalyst that started us on their real estate journey.
Scott:
So to be fair to say that leading up to 2020, you guys are living a very normal kind of middle class lifestyle from a financial perspective here in a relatively lower cost of living area. It’s not the lowest, but it’s not Manhattan either. And you’re accumulating a little bit of cash over years in addition to 401k contributions and I dunno what the word is, vesting, maybe pension plan, moving towards vesting, the pension plan.
David:
Yep. We put in X amount every month towards a pension. And I think my mindset changed when I was a trooper up in the Adirondacks. I met a mentor when I was stationed up there and Greg really gave me the foundation and kind of the thought process of real estate investor, and you’re never going to change your life unless you try. And that mentality that he gave us and that idea has really led us to where we are now.
Morgan:
And a little background on Greg really quick. He is a guy from LA and he vacations in the Adirondacks every year. And Dave just happened to meet him when he was a trooper on the road. So Greg is a real estate investor, so every time he would see Dave, he would say, what are you and Morgan doing? And have you ever thought of this? And he started to talk to Dave about all of his investments. Then Dave would come home and report to me everything that Greg was doing. So that’s what got the ball rolling on what made us really start to think about, okay, I think this is possible. I think we have the income to do it. We’re looking at all the 401k information and money that he’s put in to his deferred comp. And we had our son and I said, let’s just do it.
Scott:
What year is this that this transition and thought process happens?
Morgan:
This? You were still up in Tupper? This was in 2019 between 2018 and 2019 because we had just had our second child, our daughter, and then I think you and Greg talked over the, it must’ve been a few years.
David:
Absolutely. And we still
Morgan:
Stay in touch. They talked about it, and then it wasn’t until 20 when we purchased our first property.
Scott:
Stay tuned for more on how David closed on his first investment property after this quick break.
Mindy:
Welcome back to the BiggerPockets Money podcast. Let’s jump in.
Scott:
So in 2019, you’re having this bug to buy real estate and you purchased that, or 20, it’s building up in 2019 is actually when you buy the first property mechanically. Where did the resources to purchase this property come from? Did you have a cash position? Did you have to find another creative way to access this, and how did you get prepared financially to buy it?
David:
So that first purchase was in October, 2020. That was in Cape Coral, Florida. So in terms of the money and where we pulled that from, it was from our 401k. So to give you a snapshot of that, we pulled a percentage of money from our 401k. There was 30,000 and we used that 30,000 towards the purchase. But then since this was during covid, we also used the CARES Act. And since my son wasn’t able to go to preschool at the time, under the CARES Act, you were able to pull out further funds. So we pulled out an additional 25,000. So now we’re working with 55,000 towards the down payment of that first property. And from there, also using our savings, we’re able to close on that first home.
Scott:
Awesome. Okay. So we have a combination of savings and 401k. Did we borrow from the 401k or was this a straight up withdrawal for the first part? The second part sounds like was a withdrawal
David:
Both. Yes. So the first part was a loan, and then the second part of the CARES Act was just pulling those funds.
Scott:
Awesome. Okay. Now, why did you decide not to invest in the great upstate New York land that I have built up in my head to be this wonderful land of magical investing returns and instead decide to go to Florida with the hurricane?
David:
That is a good loaded question. So Florida, there’s a couple things. So this is during the middle of Covid, just demographically. If you look at migration patterns, everyone from California and New York are moving. So there’s a couple reasons for that. One, Florida, obviously great weather and then two taxes and
Morgan:
Everyone was still working. Florida didn’t shut down.
David:
Yep. Landlord tenant laws in Florida are better. I mean, they have high insurance rates now, but we do things to mitigate those costs.
Mindy:
Okay. I want to know what you do to mitigate those costs because Florida Insurance, homeowner’s insurance is, let’s be polite and say unaffordable.
David:
Yes, I agree with you. So when we went to go purchase our first property in Florida, I was actually originally looking at condos and another trooper, he bought a condo down there and he said, I’m making $200 a month and off of that condo is passive income. I thought that sounded excellent. And then I started listening to BiggerPockets and BiggerPockets said, you should go for that 1% rule.
Scott:
Those were the days.
David:
Yes. So it still works. So without having any other ideas of real estate, I just said to the realtor, I said, I want to make 1% off of the total purchase price. She told me it wasn’t possible and you can’t do it in this market. And so I told her anything’s possible, and we found the realtor. And after we found the other realtor, she introduced us to a program. The program is a sobriety program. It places individuals going through alcohol or narcotics recovery in single family homes. And that organization is how we’re able to one, bring in that 1% rule, and then also it allows us to make a substantial amount and to hit that 1% every single purchase. So with the high insurance rates, we’re able to far exceed what apartment complexes, Airbnbs, a whole slew of other real estate investments, what they’re able to bring in.
Mindy:
So with the sobriety program, who is paying the rent on the property?
David:
So that’s a good question. So the tenants are paying rent to us. Now, to give you an example, they have, we’ll say we have own a home in Tampa, there might be 10 other sobriety homes affiliated with that program in Tampa. So we receive the rent from the tenants, but if for whatever reason they can’t pay, if there’s a hurricane that comes through, those other 10 homes will chip in rent and then they will give us our monthly rent check. Now, for whatever reason, those 10 homes can’t pay us. It goes out to a chapter, chapter covers a region in Florida, and that regional chapter will kick in money to us. If for whatever reason that can’t happen and there’s a large, large hurricane, the state of Florida will end up sending us a rent check, which actually happened a couple months ago. And then there’s another safety program as well on the federal level.
Scott:
Now the economics of this at the fundamental level are these are typically multi bedroom homes and we’re really packing in a large number of individuals per property. And people are actually splitting rooms in many cases. Or is that a different type of program that’s not the same as what you’re doing?
David:
There might be a couple of rooms that are split in half, but for the most part it’s six to eight people per house. But I mean, we’re looking at homes that are 2,500 square feet, five or six bedrooms, two to three baths. They’re large homes. And
Morgan:
If for whatever reason we need to, we’ve actually added multiple houses we’ve added on. So we’ve added two, three more bedrooms in some of these properties before the tenants move in to give everybody an adequate amount of space.
Scott:
Awesome. And then mechanically, are you guys finding candidates clients for the program here, or how does that work?
David:
So we are very, very, very hands off with regards to the sobriety program. We only take care of major fixes within the homes, whether that’s an HVAC system, but otherwise the program, they place individuals into the home. They have more or less a house manager and they will contact us if there’s any issues with the house or any repairs to be done. But we don’t find the people. They find the people, if there’s ever any major repairs, we’ll cover them, but there’s minor repairs. They will actually cover the cost of those minor repairs in the home.
Scott:
Now, do you ever get, one of the things, I’ve contemplated this for some properties here in Denver and have ultimately opted not to do the same. How do you position these properties? I imagine that neighbors, for example, in certain neighborhoods would’ve a problem with eight to 10 recovering drug addicts or alcoholics in a building nearby them. How do you find these properties and you factor that at all into your consideration for these purchases?
David:
Absolutely. So the thing about the people that are in these homes, and this was one thing that was really big for me just because I was, at the time, I was a New York State trooper and I am making arrests of people that have narcotics on them that are drinking and driving. And once the program was explained to me that these are just normal, normal, normal people, they are in our Tampa home. We had a local DJ that was in the home. We have people that are normal blue collar workers and they’re just as normal as anyone else. They’re not the normal people that I would deal with in terms of making arrests. And in terms of when we purchase these homes, we make sure that the home one is not overfilled. It’s a normal five to eight people in the home and they’re in nice areas. We’ve rarely had any complaints from neighbors, but we also make sure the houses are kept up, that there’s landscaping that’s done, that there driveway is a big driveway to accommodate all the vehicles and that there’s not vehicles parked on the road. When we went to purchase our first property, I always told Morgan I wanted it to be a property that
Morgan:
We would live in,
David:
That we would live in and that I would be proud to live in. And that’s kind of been our mentality going forward.
Scott:
Okay. So can you give us the numbers on this first purchase? We don’t need to go through every purchase in the portfolio, but I’d love to hear about this first purchase and what the portfolio is swelled to today.
David:
So this first purchase in Cape Coral, it was in October, 2020. It was 269,000, and the cash we invested in that property was $58,000. That house right now spins off 1,360 in a month of cashflow. And just in terms of quick numbers that produces an ROI for us of 22.65%, we were able to get 1% off of that purchase price. And then right now we’re renewing the lease and then we’re also going to get a higher passive income and higher ROI from that. Awesome. And
Scott:
You’re providing affordable living conditions and helping people on their recovery journeys with this as well. So that’s fantastic. How many of these do you have today?
David:
So today we have 10 homes. They’re spread throughout Florida and we strategically buy them in high retirement areas or areas that everyone would like to move to that will appreciate. So whether that’s Jacksonville or Cape Coral or Bradenton, you name it, those are areas that we pinpoint in terms of very certain data points. And so far it’s worked out pretty well. Awesome. And then
Scott:
Let’s zoom in on the most recent purchase. What’s the most recent property that you acquired and what are the numbers look like on that? From an acquisition standpoint here in 2024,
David:
So the most recent purchase was in Orange Park, which is in Jacksonville. That purchase was 329,000. So to give you an idea of that current mortgage, we’re looking, so we’re faced up against right now an eight interest rate. So obviously everyone else is going through the same boat that we are with high interest rates for that rent, we’re able to negotiate a $3,300 rent every month, and that gives us a cash on cash of $977. So for the ROI for that property, that is giving us a 24% ROI off of that property, a 24%
Scott:
Cash on cash. ROI? Correct. Awesome. Okay. And when you use the word negotiated $3,300 in rent, this is a negotiation with a program that fills the house with sober living clients. Am I using the right terminology or am I reasonably close with this? Absolutely.
Morgan:
Perfect.
Scott:
Awesome. So what would the property rent for as a long-term rental?
David:
A lot less. I don’t know ’em specifically, but a lot less. So the other thing is that I always prepare is that if this program did fall through that I need to make sure that I can rent very close to what our current rental rate is to make money. So that’s why we purchased in these appreciating areas. In terms of what they would make, it would definitely be a few hundred dollars less, but every couple of years they will increase rent more and more just so they can have that stability.
Scott:
Is there another piece to your overall portfolio? How do you think about building wealth today and what’s the end game?
David:
So that’s a good question. So I think for us, I know that there’s the fire movement and that I think there’s a lot of value for me as a state police member, obviously to keep my job, but to have that aspect of a W2 and it allows me to have reserves, it allows me to plan for if there’s ever air conditioning that goes, for me, at least as a W2 worker, it works. Right now I have six and a half years left with state lease. After that, then I will go on to retirement and continue growing our portfolio.
Scott:
And can you walk me through the six and a half years thing? What is the six and a half years item there?
David:
Yeah, just six and a half years until I retire. So with my military time, I’m able to buy back a couple of years, and then after that for me it’ll be year 17 with state police, I’m able to retire.
Scott:
Retire. And by that you mean you’ll have the pension and benefits that kick in?
David:
Yeah, so we’ll have a pension, I’ll have a 401k and then we’ll have our real estate.
Morgan:
Yeah, because state police, it’s a 20 year commitment for state police. Yeah,
David:
So I mean, I think our goal, obviously my original goal was to have, when we started this, my original goal was to have 10 homes and
In 10 years, in 10 years, and I wanted to have one home a year. And then that didn’t happen. And then we just far exceeded that expectation. And then I originally wanted to have $10,000 passively and we’ve exceeded that. So my new goal, one thing I do is that I created a roadmap. The roadmap shows literally every single year since we started homes I want to, or how many homes we should accumulate that year, how many homes do we have and how much we make passively every single month. So allows me to stay on track. And as of right now, we’re hitting all the metrics and all the numbers that we need to in terms of our goals. So I want to have 50 homes when I separate from state police and passively make over 70,000 a month.
Scott:
That’s awesome. And what will you do with the thousand a month passively? Can you tell us about the world travels or the excitement that will come? At that point,
David:
I’d always joked around and just said, I’d like to retire and just didn’t have any big plans. But to be honest, I want to continue working as long as I can. I enjoy everything that we do within real estate. I’d like to be the Warren Buffett and just live till as long as I can and continue doing exactly what we’re doing. I enjoy every aspect of it. I enjoy the research. I enjoy finding the homes in certain areas. I wouldn’t be against moving on to apartment complexes and other endeavors. But I think one reason we are successful with what we’re doing is because we’re doing one thing. We’re not flipping homes, we’re not doing Airbnbs, we’re doing one thing and we’re doing it well. And I honestly just want to continue doing what we’re doing and obviously make our kids a big part of that and hopefully it’d be something that they’d be interested in moving forward.
Mindy:
We have to take this one final break, but more from David and his financial journey right after this.
Scott:
Alright, welcome back to the show.
Mindy:
So you mentioned that the Sober Living Program is renting or signing leases two and three years at a time. Is there at the, how long has this program been going on? Is there any I would love for them to go out of business because nobody needs it anymore, but I live in reality. But I’m wondering, because you get so much more rent from renting through this program versus just renting to one family, have you taken anything into account that this program might end?
David:
No. So this program’s been around since the 1970s. They were actually founded by a stockbroker in New York City. Unfortunately that stockbroker, he needed this program. He was in an Alcoholic Anonymous program and there was no follow-up after that program was done. And that’s why it was created. Now on that point, there’s hundreds of sober living programs throughout the country, probably thousands. But one of my bets was that unfortunately, like you said, I love that this program went out of business and it was never needed in the country. But I think in terms of reality, it’s not going to happen. I think for what I anticipate happening, it’s always going to be needed and it’s always going to be something that’s helpful for everyone. And that’s kind of something that we’re banking on,
Mindy:
And I wish I could say that you’re wrong, but you’re not. It’s going to be needed. Have they been around since the seventies in Florida in this location? I’m trying to poke holes in this. You’re not leaving me any room to poke any holes in your plan? No.
David:
So they’re in every state in the country. They were allowed in Florida. Florida legislature allowed them in a couple of years ago, beginning of 2020, they allowed them to start purchasing properties in Florida. And obviously they use an investor to purchase those properties. But no, they’re in Canada, they’re in the United States, they’re actually even in Australia. But they have such a high success rate, an 85% success rate, and that’s why there’s a lot of value. And states recognize them as well as other sober living programs because of the way they’re structured in terms of having a president of the house, a treasurer, a secretary, it gives everyone a job and it gives the house a meaning so they’re able to be successful because of those jobs.
Morgan:
There is a little story if you guys want to hear it, with the law enforcement that called us.
David:
Yes.
Morgan:
I don’t know if you guys want to hear a quick story.
David:
Yeah, let’s do it.
Morgan:
Okay.
David:
So in our property in Fort Walton Beach, it’s up towards Pensacola, Panama City. I got a phone call while I was at work that one of our tenants was going around the neighborhood and checking, I don’t want to say checking, but trying people’s car door handles. And I don’t think it was as a nice thing Anyway, so he got a call from the police department and told them what I did, which was very well received by their police department down there. So that individual was removed, obviously, from that house and that sober living program took care of that person being removed. Nothing that I had to do since what I do. And that program was so well received by the police department. They ended up going over to our house two weeks later and throwing them a barbecue,
Morgan:
The whole Fort Walton Police Department.
David:
And they also did. So they took these guys that are in the thirties, forties on police ride-alongs, and it was a very, very good, it was a good story just for them to understand what we’re doing, that a lot of people have preconceived notions of what it is. And they were able to see that that is not, they’re all just normal people working nine to five jobs.
Morgan:
And this was a little bit of a more affluent neighborhood where we purchased this property. So a lot of the neighbors were thrilled. And I know we mentioned that earlier. So they were constantly calling the local law enforcement. And of course this situation was warranted, but the Fort Walton police sided with our house, which was really awesome, and we never heard anything again. So I thought that was great for the community to know that these houses exist and for the world to know that these houses exist and these people are just trying to live normal lives and in a safe, clean home. So I just thought that was really cool that they all came together and
David:
Was positive. Positive. Yeah, they said that that was the first time that they’ve ever, ever had law enforcement come over and
Morgan:
Cook for our guys. Yeah,
David:
That was the first.
Scott:
That’s fantastic, guys. What a wonderful tie in to what you do and the research and the very thoughtful business that you’ve constructed here over several years. I have a couple of quick last minute questions here before we wrap up. One is all of this real estate owned personally by you guys or in a business that you a hundred percent own? Or do you have outside investors or partners in any part of the business?
David:
So all of the homes are owned by me. They’re all deeded to us. However, a couple years ago, I’ve always had interest from coworkers to get into real estate with us. I’ve never been comfortable doing it until Morgan said, what’s the worst that could happen? And I said, well, I could lose everyone’s money. And then so when Morgan was, she’s awesome with this. So she is a very, very, very supportive person and she gave me the confidence to move forward with using funds from my coworkers. So that looks like we received $50,000 from a coworker, and then I will produce returns from them. So I essentially make nothing off of, we’ll say
Morgan:
The last three properties, the
David:
Last three properties,
Morgan:
The first seven properties was just our money.
David:
And I will give them the passive or the cashflow that I’m receiving off that property. Now after year five, it’s a five year note that we do with them, but after year five, we will receive that cashflow. And the benefit to them is that it takes place with our 401k and I can give them better returns than our 401k can or our deferred comp. So there’s a huge, huge value for them just because of what we do is very stable.
Scott:
Okay. And so coworker lends you $50,000 or whatever it is for the down payment on a property. You use those funds as the equity in the down payment and then borrow using a conventional loan in your name for the remaining of the property, pay them back principal and interest over five years and then own the property outright. And you’ve done that in the last three, including perhaps the deal we just discussed, the most recent one at 8% interest mortgage.
David:
I mean, it’s a huge benefit to them. Everyone’s happy. And then in five years then we’ll have that property moving forward. We’ll have that cash flow moving forward.
Scott:
Got it. Okay. Awesome guys. And then last question here, are you still contributing to your 4 0 1 Ks or anything? Are you applying every dollar available back into real estate?
David:
I was initially, but I don’t put into my 401k anymore. I’m not against it. The 4 0 1, 4 0 1 Ks great. But what I can produce off of our real estate far exceeds anything that the 401k can push out and yeah, and we don’t put anything into our 401k anymore.
Scott:
Awesome. So this is the bulk of your portfolio now is this plus a vesting pension plan.
Mindy:
Okay. I have a last question. How much time per week or per month are you spending running the properties you already have? Not looking for new ones, but just managing the 10 houses you have.
David:
That’s a good question. So not much, just because of the way they’re structured and they have that house manager, we don’t get that many emails or phone calls whatsoever. I’ll get a couple a week if that, and that’s it. I use my commute going down to work in terms of being on the phone or listening to podcasts or whatever. And in terms of managing them, there’s not much managing in terms of my side, it’s just major fixes or major repairs that might need to be done,
Morgan:
Which we’ve had quite a few in the last couple of years. We’ve had some big fixes. But I think it’s interesting where we find our people to do that. We’ve pretty much established a team in Florida and not people that work for us, but we used an app that most people I think are familiar with, if I can say it. We use, Dave loves Yelp, and we have found HVAC technicians, we have found plumbers, landscapers, and these are people that we’ve now over the course of four years, have established a relationship with. Our landscaper has driven hundreds of miles for us to put in sprinkler systems. And our plumbing guys have worked on multiple properties. We’ve had to do HVAC in some of our properties, and we’ve used the same people because obviously we’re not there. So it’s hard to trust, if that’s the right word, that people are doing the job and doing it correctly. So everything that we’ve researched has been free information and Dave looks at reviews.
David:
I think on that point, everyone is extremely honest whether they like a company or not on Yelp or Google. And so we rely very heavily for repairs on Yelp and Google. And we have not had one bad experience with a company just because if someone likes ’em, they’ll say they like ’em and it’s easy as that.
Mindy:
Knock on wood right now, knock on wood. Yes,
Morgan:
I know.
Mindy:
But that’s awesome. That’s a great tip. And I haven’t heard that one before to go to Yelp and Google reviews. But yeah, I mean, you’re absolutely right. If somebody doesn’t like you, somebody doesn’t like the service you’ve provided, they don’t hold back.
Scott:
That’s
Morgan:
It.
David:
Well
Scott:
Guys, where can people find out more
David:
About you? So we just created a website. So website is Stanhope Capital and that will have all of our social media handles, our email and everything else about us,
Scott:
Stan hope capital.com. We’ll link to that in the sermon notes here. Well, thank you for all you guys do for sharing this wonderful story and for teaching me a lesson about upstate New York and how it’s maybe a nice place to live, not so nice place to invest from your standpoint here. So really enjoyed the conversation today and hope it inspires a lot of people. Thank you guys. Thank you very much.
Morgan:
Thanks guys. Nice to see you again, Scott. Thanks, Mindy.
David:
Thank you.
Mindy:
Thank you guys. And for everybody who does invest in upstate New York, you can [email protected] to tell him how great the market is. All right. That wraps up this episode of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast. He is the Scott Trench and I am Mindy Jensen saying, Tooles noodles. BiggerPockets money was created by Mindy Jensen and Scott Trench. This episode was produced by Eric Knutson, copywriting by Calico Content, post-production by Exodus Media and Chris McKen. Thanks for listening.
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