Beyond Rental Yield: How to Answer the Question, “Is This Property Worth It?”
For any given rental property, there is a single statistic that, in the end, is the defining factor of that property’s success: its rental yield. The rental yield of a…
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For any given rental property, there is a single statistic that, in the end, is the defining factor of that property’s success: its rental yield. The rental yield of a…
Any half-decent property manager has a lot to do in today’s market — the huge shift into real estate investment and specifically into rental investments has left us with more…
Managing property is an extraordinarily complex job; rare is the person who can actually do it all on their own. Like, “two-horned unicorn” kind of rare. The reason why is…
When you’re a real estate investor, you’re at a lot of risk just as a part of doing business — any number of disasters can leave you holding onto a…
For a first-time property investor, a Single-Family Residence (SFR) is generally the wisest “starter investment” — the jam that a young, high-energy investor can cut his teeth on and gain…
There’s not a landlord who’s been in business for long who hasn’t had a tenant fail to pay on time — or at all. When it happens, the speed and consistency…
Welcome to the next installment of our ongoing series about how you, too, can totally mess up as a landlord! This time, we’re talking about what might be the second-most…
It’s time for our next look into the mistakes and mess-ups of the property management world! Today, we’re looking at leases and lease signing, as well as the actual moving…
The word “discrimination” has gained a bad flavor in American mouths in the past fifty years or so — but stop and think about it. We celebrate it when a…
A huge part of being a property manager is learning how to market yourself and your company. You have to do it twice, after all: once to your client owners,…
If you manage properties, there’s one thing that absolutely will happen, no matter how amazing you are at your job: someone somewhere will complain about something. Even the world’s most…
There are a lot of clauses in any given lease, and some of them are obviously more or less business-impacting than others. Your late-rent clause, for example, is one that…
We’ve always been a proponent of term leases, so our viewpoint might be a bit biased, but hear us out. Over the years we’ve met many landlords that are adamant…