Christian Osgood won't buy a cheap duplex in Ohio if the travel costs eat the profit. He sticks to Dallas deals he can inspect himself, after friends lost money to contractor damage they missed by not showing up.
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Every time I do any deal, the deal itself has to make enough money to merit seeing the property. Yes. Sometimes there's, sometimes, you know, there, there, maybe there's the best duplex that you could ever buy in the middle of Ohio. Like it just, there's a stellar deal. It's never gonna be worth me booking a flight to check on that duplex once a year personally. And so it's, that's, that's off the list for me. I'll, I'll buy a more expensive, less, less crazy good deal in Dallas where I cannot make the mistake of buying it and not seeing it. That has been my, my policy from, from early on. I've had friends who've had contractors fall through the top floor to the bottom floor after they closed. They're like, well, I got an inspection. I'm like, did you attend the inspection? They're like, well, no. It's like, it's like, yeah, you might want— nothing replaces seeing the property.