4 Common Maintenance & Repair Mistakes Property Managers Make
Welcome to the next installment of our ongoing series about how you, too, can totally mess up as a landlord! This time, we’re talking about what might be the second-most…
Building a Team
How to Painlessly Switch Property Management Companies
There are times when a rental property owner (long term or short term) desires to change the property management taking care of their property. Here are a few keys points you…
How to Hire a Painter
So if you’ll notice, I didn’t title this blog “How to Hire a Good Painter”. It’s easy to hire a painter, it takes a bit more diligence to find a…
Finding an “Interim” Property Manager When You’re on Vacation
I recently left the country for a week, headed to a place where I literally had no phone service and limited access to email. That wasn’t a one-time-only event. I…
A Real-Life Property Management Setup
Literally, real-life. I’m giving you the inside scoop as to exactly what I get in terms of property management for my own rental properties. I feel inclined to reemphasize, in…
Professional Property Management: Why Use Them and How to Empower Them?
Are you getting your money’s worth out of your property management company? I’m always surprised by the number of investor/landlords who don’t take full advantage of the services, resources and…
Property Management Quality and Your Bottom Line.
Discussing investment opportunities on CNBC last February, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet said, “If I had a way of buying a couple hundred thousand single-family homes and had a way of…
Landlords: How to Deal with a Negligent Property Manager
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…
How to Hire and Manage a Property Manager for Your Rentals
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…
Is Your Realtor a GREAT Real Estate Agent?
There’s a BiggerPockets forum thread going on this week that addresses the issue of realtors, and whether they are worth their fee when selling your investment property. While I’m not…
Finding Your Accountant. How Can a CPA Help Your Real Estate Business?
I’m always a bit concerned when I read an email or a forum post by a new investor asking about how he should structure his business, how he should prepare…
More Interview Questions For A Property Manager (And Some Answers)
When 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…
Some Questions To Ask A Property Manager
This started out as “Some Questions to Ask Your Property Manager.” But if you’ve already hired a property management company, you’re a bit late – you want to ask these…
