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Mortgage and Lending with AFI Mortgage

Who can give me some pointers?  I own 12 rentals now but have squired them through foreclosures.  I have never bought a house that I intended to use as a rental.  Most of the ones I am looking at now require some TLC (as the listing agents always points out)  How do you go about hiring someone to do the TLC?  I am not very handy, I don't even own tools needed, couldn't use them if I did.  So where is a guy like me to go for these handy men?  I am in Louisiana, Calcasieu parish, Lake Charles, La.  If you know of anyone that can help me please send me his or her information.  I am into residential and commercial property so I could use someone on a pretty regular basis.  My experience has been that its impossible to afford a general contractor so that's out.  I guess I could paint but its hard for me to get excited about that even...  Can you tell I need help!  Don't be bashful call or write to me with suggestions.

Richard Baggett 

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Joe Pruett
Investment Real Estate, LLC - Pembroke Pines, FL

Hello Richard,

You might try www.angieslist.com for handyman type services, although they seem to also have people and companies to do complete makeovers.  I got this from two sources, including a rehab guru and a close friend.  Since the friend has no interest in Angie's, I give him my full trust.  He was looking for a company in Arlington, TX to do a complete makeover of his 30+ year old house so he could sell it and located a highly rated contractor that he just could not say enough good about.  Angies supposedly has some system in place to avoid the Ebay 'glowing reports' syndrome. You can also go to www.everycontractor.com and www.nahb.com – (bigger rehab jobs) with hundreds of remodelers.

Hope this helps.

Jul 25, 2008 06:19 PM