3 Impressive Ways that Buy-and-Hold Investors Gain Equity
Think rental properties are ONLY good for cash flow? Guess again. If you have a buy-and-hold strategy with real estate — in other words, if you are the proud owner…
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.
Buying Multi-Family Properties: What’s All The Hype About?
I recently had the opportunity to join Mr. Joshua Dorkin and Mr. Braaaaaandooooooooon Tuuuuuuuuuurneeeeeeeeer (and the crowd goes wild!!!) for a BiggerPockets Podcast 61. This was, indeed, an honor for…
Do You Have a Property Inspection Toolkit? (9 Must-Haves to Get You Prepared)
If you are a real estate investor (or would like to become one), it is more than likely that you will walk through many properties. I recommend that anyone looking…
Should You Buy More Rental Properties Or Pay Down the Ones You Have?
Many rental property owners are debating between two choices: Should they focus on paying down the handful of properties that they already own? Or should they buy more properties? In…
How to Incorporate Floor Plans into Your Real Estate Business
I am always looking for ways to improve and different ways to set our real estate business apart from the competition. Some things that we try work, others don’t. Today…
Using a Free CRM to Manage Your Real Estate Business
A CRM is a software program that is typically used to organize and manage customers for a business. It stands for Customer Relationship Management. In real estate, many people use…
Do You Know Which Home Improvements Will Pay Off?
When you’re planning improvement to your property do you know which ones will pay off when you rent it or sell and which won’t? Sure, bathrooms and kitchens are the…
Business Cards: The Most Important Marketing Tool You’ll Ever Have
Did you know that the most powerful tool in your real estate arsenal can fit in your pocket? It’s flexible, it’s small, it’s got all the information you need to…
How to Write a Kick @$$ Business Plan
Working with real estate investors over the last 18 years a couple truths have remained constant and are ever present regardless of the location, age, and income of the investor,…
The Four Word Business Plan to Build Your Real Estate Empire.
“Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.” Colonel John Boyd General Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf exemplified world-class leadership during…
Five Steps to Finding Focus in Your Real Estate Business
“It’s not luck” Dr. Eli Goldratt Focus is an essential element to success in sports, business, and everything. The more success biographies you read it may become crystal clear: mega…
Avoiding Burnout: Goals are Great But …
This is the time of year when everyone thinks about goals and what they want to achieve in the upcoming year. I am one of those folks that have written…
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…
