How To Attract 10,000 Visitors A Month To Your Real Estate Website
I guess that headline may be a little misleading. Technically we only had 9,700 visitors to our website last month, but considering that 6 months ago we were averaging between…
Managing & Scaling
Multiplexes vs. Single Family Rentals: Which is the Better Rental Property?
When I first became a landlord, I assumed that multi-unit properties would generally be the best investments. I imagined myself exclusively owning triplexes and quad-plexes. But as the years have…
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…
When I Prefer Property Managers over Being a Landlord
When a thunderstorm hits Atlanta, knocks off siding and parts of the roof of one of my rental properties, and I’m in Nicaragua. The Reality If I didn’t have a…
3 Reasons to Use a Repair Escrow
I’m in the process of negotiating the sale of a property to a retail buyer right now and was able to use a repair escrow as a compromise to my…
To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade? How Nice Should Your Rentals Be?
How nice should you make your rental properties? Imagine that it’s time to renovate or improve your properties, and you need to make some choices. Do you buy the cheapest…
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…
How to Never “Work” Another Day In Your Life…
I had just hit the snooze button for the third time… Although I had a busy day ahead of me which I knew would be good for my business, I…
5 Things Dad Taught Me That Made Me the Real Estate Investor I Am Today
Some might complain that it’s just another “greeting card holiday” but I believe Father’s Day is a time to honor the man in our life who was likely responsible, above…
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…
Branding Your Real Estate Investing Business
Everywhere you look real estate investors are talking about branding their businesses. The conversation isn’t always the same, but the underlying idea is always the same. How do I distinguish…
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…
