How to Determine Rent: 8 Tips for Making Sure You Are Charging the Correct Amount
Rent is simply a price. The price someone is willing to pay to use your property for a set period of time. This price is determined by hundreds (if not…
Landlording & Property Management
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Should You Adjust Rent for Inflation? Nope. Here’s Why.
I keep a rent escalation clause in my leases. It states that the rent will rise by 3 percent each year, to keep pace with inflation. When I wrote it,…
Dealing with the Nitpicker Tenant
We all know the nitpicker type. The nitpicker is someone who never seems satisfied and is always finding something wrong. Nitpickers can drive you crazy. With most situations in life…
Don’t Just Hand Them The Keys, Use A Tenant Move In Process
Your property is move in ready. You have shown it to several potential tenants. You have screened your applicants and selected the person that best fits your criteria. Now all…
12 Easy Tips to Reduce Your Vacancy Rates and Find Great Tenants
There are a lot of things I’m not good at in life. Like softball. Or pick up lines (Do you have a band-aid? Cause I just skinned my knee when…
Five Ways to Eliminate Most Landlord/Tenant Adversity
Several years ago when I was just starting out as a real estate investor, I remember talking with another much more experienced investor at one of our local reia group…
How To Keep Tenants Longer…and a Strategy For Finding New Renters
As real estate investors, when we buy a property that we intend to rent to others, we’re doing so with the goal of receiving a return on our investment. Ideally,…
Should You Tell the Tenants that You Are the Owner? [Counterpoint]
This question seems to continually pop up on my radar, and I don’t know why – this seems pretty simple to me. What am I missing guys? (See Brandon’s article…
Buying Investment Properties with Existing Tenants
As a buy and hold investor, tenants are the lifeblood of my business. They pay our bills plus give us a little extra to put food on our table and…
Tenant or a Professional Bum – Do You Know How to Tell?
A go-to favorite in the Leybovich household is a romantic comedy Hitch starring Will Smith, Kevin James, and Eva Mendes. In one of the scenes early in the film Hitch,…
Investing in Rental Property
There are a lot of ways to invest in real estate. Trust me – I made the list of the Top 100 Ways to Invest in Real Estate. However, one…
Regarding Your Maintenance Request – An Open Letter to Tenants
Dear Tenant, Thank you for recent maintenance request. We take every request seriously. Please understand that we want your stay with us to be a good one. In that respect,…
The Pros and Cons of a Lease Forward (or Lease Back)
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a family of investors who loved their job and all that it entailed. They had gotten a great deal on…
