3 Tips to Help Maximize Your Virtual Assistant’s Efficiency & Productivity
The business of landlording involves an awful lot of paperwork, which means it can benefit from the addition of a virtual assistant. Here's the basics.
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Drew Sygit
6 Tips for Gracefully Responding to Bad Reviews as a Property Manager
Getting a bad review on a major online site like Yelp or Annie's List or even "just" Google really sucks -- but it's 10x worse if you reply badly.
The 5 Levels of Property Management Expertise
After several years of watching our competition, learning from them, and growing with them, we’ve come to the conclusion that there are definite stages that property managers evolve through as…
5 Scams That Trick Landlords Into Accepting Less-Than-Stellar Tenants
Tenant screening scams are everywhere. If you don’t believe that applicants will come to your table looking to scam their way into a home or apartment that they have no…
Alternative Dispute Resolution: Avoiding Eviction Court
Dealing with an eviction that makes it all the way to the courtroom is one of the most difficult, expensive, and arbitrary situations for a property manager—thus the need for…
3 Ways to Ensure Top-of-the-Line Contractors Will Want to Work for You
There have been many guides featured on the BiggerPockets blog about how to find a great contractor. But what we often gloss over is how to make sure that the great contractor…
4 Surefire Signs Your Property Investment Deal is a Fraud
There are con men, and then there are fraudsters — the former is a definite criminal, relatively easy to see behind bars if he’s caught. The latter, however, can blatantly…
4 Old School Tenant Screening Tips That Still Hold True For Modern Landlords
Tenant screening is one of those aspects of landlordship where many DIY landlords fall far short of doing enough heavy lifting. Some outsource the process by using services that return…
12 Things Every Landlord Should Do NOW to Prepare Rentals for Winter
As the cold approaches, it’s the duty of every landlord, be they property manager or real estate investor managing directly, to prepare their properties for the upcoming season. That’s no…
7 Tips to Keep Landlords Free From Costly Tenant Lawsuits
When you’re a landlord, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Economic shifts and natural disasters, however, have absolutely nothing on the power of your own tenants…
Filling Vacancies: How to Use a “Tenant Funnel” to Pinpoint the Best Candidates
Filling vacancies has largely been regarded for decades as a matter of “playing the odds.” You never know who is going to be a solid applicant and which prospects are…
The Art of Skip Tracing: How to Track Down Tenants Who Owe You Money
Property managers wear a lot of hats. We’re experts—or at least skilled amateurs—in everything from home remodeling to marketing to debt collections. And from time to time, we have to…
Turnkey Rentals vs. “DIY” Real Estate: Which Is the Better Investment?
An entire vast market in turnkey rental properties has sprung up, basically ventures that specialize in taking a broken house, fixing it up, getting a tenant in it, and then…
