10 Commandments for Your 2014 Direct Mail Campaigns
A new year is the perfect opportunity to reassess your business growth goals and recommit yourself to marketing practices that will help you achieve them. With that in mind, I…
Managing & Scaling
16 Tips to Ensure Your Property Is Ready for Cold Weather
Landlords are always looking for ways to save money, and to put more cash in their pockets. One way to do that is to make it a point to follow…
Put Your Real Estate Business Management on Steroids with “GQueues”
A few weeks ago I described how to Systematize Your Business for FREE with Google. In that post, I showed how you can use some of the many FREE tools from…
When Should You Fire Your Property Manager?
As soon as you start wondering if you should! Okay maybe not always but if you are wondering at all, you should likely think about pulling the rug out. For…
How I Bought a 12-Unit Apartment Building with No Money Down (And How it Nearly Bankrupted Me…)
This is my story about how I bought a 12-unit apartment building with money raised from private individuals. This deal closed against all odds and then nearly bankrupted me. Don’t…
Use Lean Six Sigma to Improve Your Real Estate Investing and Be More Efficient
“Measure twice, cut once.” Proverb I am a “Lean Six Sigma” Green Belt. While I did take karate as a child and won a fair amount of medals, this…
How I Found, Analyzed, and Bought an Ugly Purple Rental Property
Yes, she’s ugly. She has purple windows and a dull gray paint job… but I love her anyways. Today I want to tell you about my newest purchase, a triplex,…
How to Find and Exploit Your “Unfair Advantage”
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Josh and Brandon and talk about a variety of topics related to real estate in the BP Podcast 045: Finding Your…
4 Things You Should Never Tell Your Tenants When Selling Income Property
Investors who own and operate income property, whether it’s single family homes or small to mid-market multi-family buildings, tend to fall into two categories when it comes to feeling a…
13 Mistakes New Vacation Rental Owners Always Make
Vacation rental owners and managers are categorically new to the hospitality world. And so their list of common mistakes often reads like a who’s who of disaster-causing agents, certain to…
How to Systematize Your Business for FREE with Google
In last week’s podcast, Michael Woodward talked quite a but about systematizing his business. Two of his favorite books, The E-Myth Revisited and The 4-Hour Workweek, both talk about creating systems…
Why Making Big Goals Will Make You More Successful
I am a huge fan of big goals even though I rarely, if ever, used goals a few years ago. That is not exactly true – I used goals… but…
Why The MLS Is A Goldmine For Real Estate Investors
I was reading one of the real estate forums in the last couple of weeks and I came across a piece of advice that made me shake my head. I…
