If you’re not getting good deals, you don’t have enough leads – you need more marketing. Working too long on one “deal” trying to force it to work means it’s not a deal and you’re still working on it because you don’t have enough leads. Marketing is not an expense, it’s an investment. Set up [...]

I received some really great response to my post, 10 Ways to Help Out Your Property Management Company, and some important questions that I want to address here. Jason asked: “What items would you suggest when someone already has a property manager?” Kudos to you, Jason, for wanting to improve your relationship with your PM! [...]

Sequestration: the ten years of automatic, across-the-board budget cuts that started March 1. It’s here and it’s effects are being felt. The federal Section 8 housing assistance program has had five consecutive years of inadequate and declining program funding. Things are about to get worse. A March 8, 2013 letter from the US Department of [...]

Mark your calendars: Saturday April 20 and Sunday April 21 are the 2013 Nationwide Open House days. This annual event is promoted by the National Association of Realtors. There will be literally hundreds of thousands of open houses those days all across the nation. For all of us, this is a FABULOUS opportunity to take [...]

There has been much written on BiggerPockets recently about property management – Do you use a professional property manager? Should you use a professional property manager? What do they do? Are they worth it? I’d like to discuss who we are as property managers, what property managers should offer, and why I think property management [...]