Landlord Tenant

Turn-Key Property Investing: An Interview with Ken Corsini

by Joshua Dorkin | June 29, 2011

Ken Corsini is a real estate investor and founder of Georgia Residential Partners, a Turn-Key property investment firm. In our interview with Ken (12:56 minutes), we get into topics including why to get into turn-key properties, who might consider these investments, the benefits and negatives of a turn-key property investment, what to expect with these [...]

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Commentary

Squatters Rights: A Frightening Case Study

by Tom Koziol | April 24, 2009

I will be the first to admit I thought I had a handle on residency, i.e. when and how it is established. I am taking excerpts from an article that appeared on April 21, 2009 in a Spokane valley newspaper under the headline: Unwanted tenants may have moved on and using it as the basis [...]

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Real Estate

If Your Tenant Can’t Pay the Rent, What Then?

by Brendan O'Brien | January 29, 2009

Last week, I wrote about a call we get all too often from tenants – telling us they can’t pay the rent, and asking for some sort of break. As always in landlording, it makes sense to have some guiding rules in place to handle these calls. You never want to try to think of [...]

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Economy

“I Can’t Pay The Rent” – A Landlords Take on What to Do

by Brendan O'Brien | January 25, 2009

I am in a very fortunate position right now. All of my 13 units are rented, and all the tenants are paying on time. It’s great! And it’s not going to last. I know that because even in good economic times, I’ve had a couple of tenants every year who found that at some point, [...]

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Learn Real Estate

That’s Too Risky! Overcoming a Poverty-Mindset

by Connie Brzowski | December 22, 2007

Danger Will Robinson! The mister and I married in 1980. We were 19, freshly spit-out by the public school system and totally clueless about the real-life world of household finance. Our parents were lower middle class, Depression-era survivors with a ton of fear about anything deemed risky…and pretty much everything was considered risky. For the [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Avoiding Landlord Stereotypes

by Connie Brzowski | December 13, 2007

Simon Lagree Had it All Wrong Without doubt, being a landlord requires a certain mindset. Before actually owning rent houses, I was certain I didn’t want to participate based on our first experience as tenants. Right after the wedding, the mister and I moved into a lovely little duplex on the edge of town. We [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Targeting Terrific Tenants

by Connie Brzowski | December 1, 2007

The mister and I waited years before buying our first rent house. Of all the various and sundry reasons for staying out of the game, our biggest obstacle was a severe case of Tenant-phobia– the crippling fear of Landlording. To make matters worse, anytime the subject came up, helpful friends and relatives regurgitated the same [...]

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