How to Incorporate Floor Plans into Your Real Estate Business
I am always looking for ways to improve and different ways to set our real estate business apart from the competition. Some things that we try work, others don’t. Today…
Managing & Scaling
What are Your House Rules?
As landlords, we have a set of house rules that go with our rental properties. They are an addendum to our lease and we sit with every new and approved…
Supplying Appliances for Rentals: Tips to Make Your Life Easier
Let’s just be honest: appliances are a pain in the butt. They are one of the costliest parts of my business. I am constantly buying new ones, getting them repaired,…
What Type of Property Should You Buy?
This is one of the most common questions that I get when working with new investors, and I guess that it is to be expected. Not only are there a…
13 Rules Great Landlords (Almost) Never Break
I’d like to convince myself that it’s not my fault… but I’m a terrible liar. It is my fault. At least 99% of the time. I’m talking about my landlord…
Building a Pro Forma: an Essential Skill for Real Estate Investors
Pro formas are the business plans of the real estate development world. They give you a snap shot into the future given the data available and your sense of the…
Using a Free CRM to Manage Your Real Estate Business
A CRM is a software program that is typically used to organize and manage customers for a business. It stands for Customer Relationship Management. In real estate, many people use…
10 Great Property Insurance Tips for Landlords to Save You Cash, Headaches, and Time
Insurance is one of those pieces of being a landlord that can make you pull your hair out. It starts off easy enough. When you purchase your first couple of…
Do You Know Which Home Improvements Will Pay Off?
When you’re planning improvement to your property do you know which ones will pay off when you rent it or sell and which won’t? Sure, bathrooms and kitchens are the…
5 DIY Investment Property Maintenance Tasks Every Investor Should Know
As an investor in real estate, it is in your best interest to stay in informed and learn how to perform certain maintenance tasks in order to save yourself time, money and…
Business Cards: The Most Important Marketing Tool You’ll Ever Have
Did you know that the most powerful tool in your real estate arsenal can fit in your pocket? It’s flexible, it’s small, it’s got all the information you need to…
Avoiding Prison When Syndicating Real Estate Deals (Do YOU Know the Securities Laws?)
I’ve been writing lately about syndicating your apartment building deals by raising money from private individuals. As Ben Leybovich said in his post about this topic, syndicating your deals is…
How to Write a Kick @$$ Business Plan
Working with real estate investors over the last 18 years a couple truths have remained constant and are ever present regardless of the location, age, and income of the investor,…
