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January 23, 2010 at 8:27 pm

If you can’t tell, I’m in the middle of implementing from fairly significant graphical changes to the site this weekend. I have everything relatively functional at this point, but there will be a few quirks are hard to read text colors in some areas of the site until I finish work on it tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

December 14, 2009 at 1:49 am

After a couple of weeks of work (almost without stop over the last four days) I finally have put up my new homepage. It isn’t completely finished, but it is good enough to go live to start off the week. This page will be the front end for Threshold Investment Properties. Too many renters and homebuyers were getting lost in the shuffle of the rather “busy” blog. If you are a regular ready this won’t really change much for you but if you wish to go directly to my blog and not the homepage, use the http://stlinvestmentrealty.com URL and not the http://thresholdstl.com URL from here on out.

They are still interconnected, but as time goes by they might diverge somewhat. I will continue to refine the site over the next few weeks and have a similar makeover coming to the actual blog. These changes have been a long time coming and when the final product is ready it will be better for both you readers and myself alike. I hope you like what I have done so far.

*NOTE – I am still working out a few bugs in the display for Internet Explorer. Should have those worked out in the next day or so. Also, I need to work on fixing all the blog links on the site so bare with me for a few days.

December 7, 2009 at 3:42 pm

To those on the email newsletter list, I am sorry about the multiple mailings last night. For some reason the server sent out this week’s posts 5 times when doing the automated send out at 1am. I really have no idea why this happened, but will be taking steps in the next week to try to prevent a repeat. If you sound encounter this problem again I would appreciate a heads up. Sorry.

October 19, 2009 at 11:23 am

Just wanted to give a quick heads up on what has been going on lately. The contractor handling the day-to-day work on my rehab project walked out on me about ten days ago, which was near the very end of the project. The placed needs to get finished ASAP so I have found myself there nearly every waking moment since then. Hoping to have everythign totally wrapped up by Wednesday. A good reminder that while rehabbing can provide a great profit, it is not without it’s share of pitfalls. More details and normal posting should be back soon.

October 2, 2009 at 11:32 am

My MLS Search provider is in the midst of upgrading the system right now so don’t be surprised if the photos on your MLS searches or even the searches themselves don’t work properly over the next day or so.

July 22, 2009 at 6:20 pm

This blog has been idle for about two months now, but that is finally changing. There excuses a-plenty to explain what happened (some of which will be posted as stories soon), but the moral of the story is “we’re back.” I am in the midst of changing the layout of the site as well so bare with me if you notice anything amiss. It’s good to be back.

June 19, 2009 at 12:01 pm

It’s been a long time coming, but after a couple of weeks of tweaking the programing, we are proud to announce that an MLS search feature is now available on this site. There is still more work to be done on it, but the results and property details pages are nearly complete, and already very user-friendly, so we decided to go live.  Please be patient as further graphical and features enhancements are added.

In the meantime, please feel free to browse through all the listings in the St. Louis area via this already excellent feature on the site. Best of all, you don’t have to register to use the feature. However, if you do, you will be able to save listings to your own cart and have email updates sent to you when any prices changes pop up on the property. It’s a great little system. You can perform this search anytime via the  MLS Search tab (the For Rent and For Sale tabs as well) on the main menu or you can just click here to perform a search now.

In the next few weeks, a full redesign of the entire Threshold Investment Properties site is coming, along with a redesign and reactivation of the semi-dormant blog. I think it will have been worth the wait. This will also feature a variety of custom MLS searches, which will allow you to search for specific types of properties (ie. 4-family) and/or specific areas (ie. Shaw). I’ll be sure to alert all you readers when those features are active.

June 9, 2009 at 12:42 am

You might have noticed a change in how the URL is working. Well after about 7 straight hours of working at it, I believe I have successfully changed my entire site over to the thresholdstl.com URL from the stlinvestmentrealty.com one. There area  few issues with images in Internet Explorer, but please bare with me while I work that out.

The old URL will continue to link to the blog, but I am in the process of remaking my company website to include dynamic property searches and this is one of the changes I needed to make for this to work. Expect postings to continue at a sporatic pace for a few more weeks while I finish these improvements to the site (and finish rehabbing my office). If you notice anything out of the ordinary with the with the site in the next week or so, please give me a heads up. Thanks for your patience.

May 7, 2009 at 11:10 pm

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If you own rental units, you know how tedious it can be filling your vacant units. In order to compete with all the other landlords out there, you have to be persistent, creative and ready to meet prospective tenants at the drop of a hat. Thankfully, Threshold Investment Properties is now offering a leasing service to help you fill your units quickly and with no hassle. Read more

May 7, 2009 at 10:50 pm

In the past three weeks I have been working more than ever on rehabbing my office space, became the President of the Jefferson Gravois Business Association, went on vacation, started a leasing division of my company, and hired an assistant. Needless to say, its been a little hectic. Thankfully, things are starting to open up again, so you can expect plenty of posts for the forseeable future

April 8, 2009 at 1:49 pm

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Despite the sluggish economy, I find myself in a position where I can’t seem to shoulder my current workload all by lonesome. As such, I’m looking for some help. Specifically, I am looking for someone to handle leasing apartments and residential sales for me. Read more

January 13, 2009 at 2:32 pm

I hope everyone had a good holiday season. Sorry about going MIA over Christmas and New Years. Between family get togethers and working on my office I was pretty slammed. Then I was in Florida visiting friends for the week following New Years.

But now I am back, caught up with work and have time to post again. I’ve got a couple of good things coming in the next few days including a look at a local project which will bring geodesic domes to the City of St. Louis. Should have mor eon that soon.

December 15, 2008 at 4:02 pm

In my efforts to fix the image galleries on the site this morning I accidentally disabled all of the images. Thankfully, I have finally managed to track down the problem. Everything should be displaying properly again. If you notice any issue please let me know. Load times have been running a little long, but I’ll try to fix that sometime later this week. Should be back to regular posting tomorrow.

December 12, 2008 at 11:23 am

I upgraded the site to the new Wordpress version (2.7) last night and it seemed like everything went beautifully. I suppose nothing can ever be that easy though. It turns out that all the image galleries on the site are currently down. I’m working on fixing it, but I’m stumped at the moment. Sorry for the downtime.

December 11, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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With the glut of foreclosures that are pouring on the market from the banks, it can be hard keeping track of which properties are worth your time and which aren’t. I work with this stuff full time and its still tough for me. Knowing how difficult it can be, a couple months ago I started working on a new section for this website called Investment Insider. Read more

November 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

I just wanted to comment on the lack of posts over the last week. I have been out of town quite a bit over the last week and will be leaving again this afternoon for the rest of the week. Things have been a bit hectic, but I apologize for not keeping up with the posts. I will be back to normal on Monday. Expect to see posts on the proposed FPSE hotel project, a before and after on my rehab project which we closed on yesterday, and my a look at lining damaged sewer laterals instead of replacing them. Hopefully they will be worth the wait.

October 17, 2008 at 12:17 pm

If you’ve had any trouble over the past few days with the website or feed not loading correctly, its not you. I’ve been tweaking a few things behind the scenes and things have gone down a few times. I fixed the broken and misformatted feed issue last night as well as most website issues. I don’t anticipate any problems on the main site from here on out. If you have any issues, particularly with the feed, I would appreciate a heads up via email or contact form.

I will, however, be continually working on a property database for properties currently on the market. Some of the less promionant pages could be a little glitchy over the next week. I’m delving into come css and php programing that is a little (a lot) out  of my league, so bare with me.

September 2, 2008 at 10:07 am

The last two weeks have been rather hectic to say the least. however, I am happy to say that a majority of the transition to my new home and office is now complete and I can finally sit down and get back to updating the blog. I’m currently working on something for this afternoon and the flow should continue throughout the week. Enjoy.

August 11, 2008 at 4:08 pm

I was just looking through all the articles I have written since I started this blog and I was astounded at how rarely I talk about financing. Since it could be argued that it is one of the most important parts of investing in real estate, I consider this a pretty glaring omission. One that will be remedied starting today.

One thing I will point out, however, is that I am certainly not an expert in the field of loans and financing. I’m good with numbers and such, but I always have felt that questions related to loans are better left to the specialists. The one thing I forget about sometimes is that even though I am not an expert on the subject, I am certainly not a layman. I see the trends and that’s what I will be discussing from here on out. My goal is try to post something about financing trends and news each week to keep you up to snuff. I have a few other ideas, but it will be a few weeks before I have a change to flesh any of these out. If you have and suggestions I’m all ears. In the meantime, you can see my first attempt at this effort here.

August 11, 2008 at 10:43 am

I was hoping to post pictures of my new office and home this afternoon. I was originally set to close last Thursday on the property, but the commercial tenant still hadn’t vacated and we had to push it to today. Now it looks like we have to delay it again. For another week! Seems that the fates are against me. Sometimes real estate transactions can be so frustrating.

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