Is the Answer to my Contractor Problem Starting my own Company?
I love fix and flipping homes and buying rental properties. I love the money you can make and finding great deals, but my biggest problem has been working with contractors.…
Real Estate Business Management
Business Management can often be similar across many industries and types of enterprises. Successful real estate investors treat their investments like a business and run them professionally. This section of the BiggerPockets Blog contains articles that can help journeyman investors systematize and professionally run their real estate businesses. Topics include hiring, management, business policy, and scaling. These articles are written by some of the best investors in the business, and in regions throughout the country.
How to Be A Prepared Property Manager in 6 P’s
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance Are you prepared? Every property manager (or managing owner) works constantly on keeping their tenants prepared for the events that could occur while they…
The Epic Guide to Finding an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent
It’s because there aren’t that many of them. Sure, they are out there, but to the untrained eye it may seem like no such thing exists. What is an investor-friendly…
The Key to Saving Money in Real Estate: Property Maintenance
For many investors, spending money on maintenance is like pulling a tooth … avoid at all costs and spend as little as possible. However, I would argue that proper maintenance…
The 5 Most Common Items Found in Contractor Lingo
Every industry seems to have its own lingo. Lawyers have legalese (ugh!). Surveyors speak of chains, pins and rods. Medical professionals seem to speak another language all together. We real…
Investing for Cash Flow or Appreciation – What’s the Difference?
No doubt, the point of investing is to receive income. Why else would you invest? You want to put your money into a property or a project or a stock…
10 Renovation Tips That Will Save You Time and Money
The impact of renovations aren’t always quantifiable. While there are tried-and-true focuses and methods to see a good return on your renovation investments, you don’t have to break the bank…
5 Tell-Tale Signs That it Might Be Time to Fire Your Property Manager
I don’t like firing people. My initial approach is to try to make it work and bring out the full potential of a person. Sometimes, however, I hold on to…
3 Steps to Automating Your Receipt Organization in Real Estate (And an EPIC Bonus Section…)
Last week I posted about how I have integrated Evernote into my real estate business and personal life to organize and automate some functions. This makes my wife happier, my…
5 Reasons You Need to “Just Say NO” to Bandit Signs!
You’ve seen them on the corner of a busy intersection, in neighborhoods, stapled to telephone poles and spammed throughout entire areas, covering everything with corrugated plastic… you know what I’m talking about,…
Using Evernote to Automate your Real Estate Business
To keep this organized I’m going to do a series of post on organizing and automating your real estate activity. The vast majority of real estate investors and other real…
To Partner or Not to Partner…That is the Question!
Inevitably if you’ve been around real estate investing for very long, you’ve heard about the potential of partnering with other people for investment deals. Partnering can introduce considerable benefits to…
How Mortgage Servicing Compares To Property Management
Since many people consider me this note guy, I’m often told that I must like investing in notes more than in real estate. And to be quite honest, nothing could…
