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…
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.
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…
How To Find An Investor-Savvy Real Estate Agent
Finding a real estate agent that understands what it means to be investor friendly can be extremely hard. This is an agent that understands that you will be placing in the…
Things to Consider Before You Buy That First Multifamily Building: Managing Property Management
This three-part set of blog posts looks into the factors that you ought to consider before you buy your first multifamily rental. Part I (Click here to read) was about the fundamental economics…
Cap Rate and Cash-on-Cash Return: A Definitive Guide
[summary]Are you confused about the terms “Cap Rate” and “Cash on Cash Return?” This post will explain everything.[/summary] There are several means of determining the return on an investment property.…
The Best Property Management Company in the World
What is the “best” property management company in the world? Does one exist? What would make for a perfect property management company? Other than one who pays you the rental income…
The Easiest Way to Find “Off Market” Deals: Pocket Listings
The off market deal – the white whale of real estate. Every real estate investor wants one (or 100), but how do you find these elusive deals? First, let’s review…
The Anatomy of a Real Estate Contract
This is going to serve as an overview of real estate contracts. This blog post is intended to provide general information regarding real estate contracts, specifically residential resale of single…
