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Real Estate Investing by Chris Clothier | December 22, 2011 
This past weekend I was digging through old DVD’s and “thinning” the big stack of movies we have and I came across a video I ordered online a few years back. It was a DVD on “How To Train Your New Dog At Home”. It was a slow Saturday and I suddenly found myself on the couch with [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Richard Warren | November 7, 2011 
As a real estate investor and landlord you need to have a strong and trustworthy team in order to have a strong and vibrant business. Operating as a one-man-band is fine at first and a majority of successful people probably started just that way. However, trying to manage all aspects of your business while taking [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Peter Giardini | October 20, 2011 
I have to admit that the words Property Manager cause my heart to skip a beat or two. Since the beginning of time, the landlord/property manager relationship has been one of trial and tribulation, punctuated by moments of true cashflow actually getting to the landlord. For first time landlords who choose to use a property [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Andrew C. MacDonald | July 26, 2011 
One of the first tasks landlords choose to outsource is property management. This is really the nitty gritty of being a landlord and if you don’t enjoy dealing with tenants or the day to day operation of your property, you might quickly look for some help from a property manager. Often times investors will just [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Andrew C. MacDonald | June 27, 2011 
If you ask people why they invest in real estate, one of the top answers you’ll get is freedom. Contrary to this driving force of wanting more freedom, many investors self-manage and end up instead limiting their own freedom. Freedom Obstacles In my article Building Your Real Estate Investment Team – Part 7: Selecting a [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | May 1, 2011 
I live in Northern Virginia. And recently, my partner and I got a call from a woman who has houses for sale in Texas, Georgia and Florida. My partner, who’s newer to this business was naturally excited and wanted to know how to figure out if it’s worth it to buy houses that are hundreds [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Peter Giardini | February 25, 2011 
In the past several weeks I have found myself in the position of providing guidance to several clients who were having tenant issues. While I enjoy engaging their issues and helping them to formulate the best approach to their respective situations, the part I have a tough time with is that these clients have paid property [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Julie Broad | December 1, 2010When I walked out of the classroom after an intense 3 hour lecture I checked my cell phone. I had 23 missed calls and 18 voicemails. My stomach jumped. I figured someone must have died. Why else would someone be so intense about calling? I scrolled through the missed calls and most of them were [...]
Commentary by Steve Dexter | November 4, 2010So you have a property in a distant city, you want to rent it out, but you don’t want to pay a property manager an arm and a leg. Are you at the mercy of a stranger who may over charge you on their monthly fee, on costly repairs that are all too frequent, and [...]
Landlord Tenant by Steve Dexter | October 28, 2010Before you put your money down on that can’t-miss out of area real estate deal, watch your wallet. Lots of rich California real estate investors lost their money big time during this last down turn because of inept property management. You are at a disadvantage owning a building you can’t see, having tenants you can’t [...]
Landlord Tenant by Julie Broad | October 13, 2010 
As a long distance landlord there have been far too many days where I felt like the saying “You can’t live with them, but you can’t live without them” is appropriate to our relationships with our property managers. And, I admit, there are still a few times where I am a bit frustrated by a [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Peter Giardini | September 17, 2010Hmmmm…. does anyone really want to be a landlord? Or do they just want the rewards, positive cashflow, that comes with being a landlord? I suspect the latter. Landlording is a tough business. Yet, when smartly executed, owning income producing properties and being a landlord has some great rewards… and yes… almost all of them [...]
Real Estate Fraud by Richard Warren | August 23, 2010 
Striking Back In Part I of this story I outlined problems that I was having with a small town property manger and in Part II I told of my discovery that others were having problems as well. To recap it quickly: The PM was collecting rents but not forwarding them to the owners and he was [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Brendan O'Brien | December 27, 2008Here is the third and last installment of “Questions to Ask Your Property Manager.” I am providing answers to some of the questions. However, in some cases, there is no one “right” answer. Actually, this was illustrated by the last installment, published three weeks ago. I had suggested that it is better for property managers [...]
Landlord Tenant by Brendan O'Brien | December 6, 2008When I put up the first group of questions you should ask a prospective property manager, one commenter asked: what are the correct answers?He had a point and so I’m going to review some of the answers to last week’s questions first before I hit you with a few more questions.I am also thinking of [...]
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Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Need Property Managers
by Steve Dexter | November 4, 2010So you have a property in a distant city, you want to rent it out, but you don’t want to pay a property manager an arm and a leg. Are you at the mercy of a stranger who may over charge you on their monthly fee, on costly repairs that are all too frequent, and [...]