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…
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 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…
When Should You Fire Your Property Manager?
As soon as you start wondering if you should! Okay maybe not always but if you are wondering at all, you should likely think about pulling the rug out. For…
Use Lean Six Sigma to Improve Your Real Estate Investing and Be More Efficient
“Measure twice, cut once.” Proverb I am a “Lean Six Sigma” Green Belt. While I did take karate as a child and won a fair amount of medals, this…
How to Find and Exploit Your “Unfair Advantage”
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Josh and Brandon and talk about a variety of topics related to real estate in the BP Podcast 045: Finding Your…
How to Systematize Your Business for FREE with Google
In last week’s podcast, Michael Woodward talked quite a but about systematizing his business. Two of his favorite books, The E-Myth Revisited and The 4-Hour Workweek, both talk about creating systems…
How and When to Start Hiring Employees for Your Real Estate Business
I like to have a lot going on in my life- both personally and in my business. I used to think I wanted to work hard to someday get to…
5 Red Flags to Watch For When Hiring a Property Manager
Last week I wrote an article about the basics of property management. I thought it would be good to expound a little more this week and discuss some of the…
How to Find an Awesome Property Manager
The other day, one of my blog readers emailed me to say: “I just turned 48. My husband and I have accumulated 26 rental units (single-family and duplexes) over the…
