The 7 Seemingly Innocent Habits Holding You Back From Success
What big things do you want to accomplish this year? Are you going to start a new business? Double the revenue in your existing company? Write a best-selling book? Lose 50 pounds?…
Managing & Scaling
Want to Cover Your Living Expenses With Passive Income? Here’s What You Should Know.
As we have continued to build and scale our business, I have been amazed at the number of people from within our market (and all over the United States) who…
How to Analyze a Rental Property to Know if it Will ACTUALLY Produce Income
Ultimately, if you are buying a rental property, what is your reason for doing so? Let me guess — income. Right? Has to be. Why else buy a rental property?…
How to Document Your Processes for a Business That Runs Like a Well-Oiled Machine (With Examples!)
Are you running your business, or is your business running you? A consistent theme echoed throughout the BiggerPockets community is the idea of developing systems to streamline your investing business. After…
3 Rental Property Expenses Investors Should Always Anticipate
The stories surrounding the beauty of receiving passive income through rental properties are often enough to get an investor’s heart pumping. However, the increase people owning a whole selection of rental…
The Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) Interest Deduction: What You Should Know Before Filing Taxes
As tax season swings into full gear, you may be preparing your own taxes and wondering what you can and cannot deduct. One such deduction seems so simple at the…
Want to Lose All Your Money & Cry Yourself to Sleep? Make These 4 Newbie Mistakes!
You know that I love you, right? Maybe not the “I want to have your baby” kind of love, but the “I’m about to yell at you, and I’m doing…
5 Direct Mail Metrics Every Real Estate Investor Should Track Religiously
Hopefully those of you who made a real estate resolution to start your direct mail campaign have. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), this post is not about your New Year’s resolution,…
4 Steps to Supercharge Your Productivity With Scrum Project Management
What can be learned from the world of software development and applied to the business of real estate investing? More effective project management! One of the most overlooked and potentially frustrating areas…
Investors, NOW is the Time to Issue 1099s: Here’s Who Needs to Receive Them
Don’t forget — the time for filing 1099s is almost here. If you are required to file 1099s, then forms must be sent to the recipient by January 31st. The…
Real Life Case Study: How One Couple Transitioned From Earned to Passive Income
The phone rang, and before I knew it, I was grinning ear to ear. It was my favorite type of phone call. A couple we have been working with since…
The Completely Free Way to Produce Customized Lease Agreements (& More!)
In 2015, my dad and I hired our first assistants, and this freed up my time to improve various systems of our investing business. One thing we addressed was our…
Investors: Believe Me, You CAN’T Afford Property Management. Here’s Why.
I am not sure where the attitude comes from that that real estate investing is something that can be done “on the side” or something that can be dabbled in.…
