![]() He was after a certain type of investor who was prepared to go on a journey with him and his team, an investor who wanted to build a long-term relationship of trust and commitment. What instantly struck me was Engelo wasn't interested in building his business through quantity of customers, but was after quality. Through my fellow Aussie investor, I contacted Engelo to discuss our goals. One of his companies gave away a house to a needy family last Christmas. ![]() So there were plenty of avenues to get to know him and his companies. Engelo has appeared on Bigger Pockets' forum posts, podcast and meetups, many other podcasts, blogs, news articles, TV news and his own YouTube channel videos. He knew his product was valuable and was in a great position to partner with those he chose. He was very transparent in all his dealings and didn't put any spin on what he was saying. What was clear was that he had integrity. After a several years building his team, systems, network and brand, his US businesses are very successful. I liked the fact that he had also had failures, but like all truly successful people, had learnt from these and become better through them. He'd had some early successes in Australia and then headed to the US to make his mark. I found out he was passionate about real estate. Given he was originally from Australia I thought it would be prudent to find out from local sources what his back story was. The man behind Ohio Cashflow is Engelo Rumora. I started building up a relationship with these two people who had made this same recommendation of Ohio Cashflow, and started building up some real confidence in their recommendation. I particularly enjoyed his manner because he wasn't pushing me in any specific direction or being a salesman, but was just providing me with the necessary information with which we could make an informed decision. He was full of praise on how much integrity the team at Ohio had and how well they had looked after him. He was very helpful in educating me about the US market, his personal experiences and of course in Ohio Cashflow themselves. The second guy was a real-estate professional from Australia who had invested with Ohio Cashflow about a year prior. This was great for me because I knew the US property market was a totally different beast to our Aussie market, and although I was getting myself educated in the differences, having a fellow Aussie on the ground would be very helpful. He recommended Ohio Cashflow as a business who had a 100% positive review status, and which was run by a fellow Aussie. The first guy was a very experienced investor who amongst many, many other things, operated a turnkey review site - this one!. I consider myself very blessed in having two key respondents, out of the many who did get back to me, provide me with the most helpful information. The first thing I did was to start searching forums, particularly on Bigger Pockets and here on Turnkey-Reviews, to find other out of country investors, and in my case, Australians, who had successfully invested with turnkey operators in the US. So she was happy to let me do the due diligence and then make the final decision together. However my belief is that no matter where you're investing from, your key starting point should always be forming relationships with people you can trust. ![]() Finding a team we could trust was going to be paramount. Going the turnkey route made the most sense since we already had jobs and wanted a passive income, not another job. We needed to find an organisation who could locate properties, rehab them, tenant them and manage them. To get the best return for our investment my wife and I were considering investing not just from out of state, but out of country! Thus we started researching turnkey operators. Being a family without a large disposable income, like we had before children, we had to make a very considered choice of where to invest our funds. It also has a much lower ROI compared with what I had seen in many of the US markets. The Australian market generally has a very high buy in price. So, I'm hoping to make this the type of review which would have helped me, in the hopes it will help you too. I was looking for reviews which would give me some real information to help with my decision-making process in choosing the right business. ![]() How do I know I can trust them, and what is it about their performance that sets them apart from other turnkey businesses. When I was reviewing turnkey operators to work with, I was looking for two foundational characteristics, trust and performance.
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