Landlords, Do You Have a New Tenant Packet?
Being a landlord is difficult. Unlike some other strategies in real estate (ex. wholesaling/flipping), you are responsible for the property and the residents of the property for the long-term. If…
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Tom Sylvester
My Experiment with RUBS Water Metering for my Multi-Family Properties
One of my biggest frustrations when it comes to multi-family investing (at least in my area) is the fact that the water bill must be in the name of the…
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…
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…
What Type of Property Should You Buy?
This is one of the most common questions that I get when working with new investors, and I guess that it is to be expected. Not only are there a…
All Real Estate Investors NEED to Have This Document… Do You?
Last week, Ben Leybovich basically wrote the post that I was planning to write this week. I’m actually glad that Ben wrote the article (even though it now means a…
Don’t Buy That Cheap Property! (UNLESS…)
It’s a fact, Josh Dorkin hates Detroit (and Rochester, Buffalo, Columbus, etc). Anyone who has listened to the BiggerPockets Podcast each week is just waiting for Josh to take any…
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…
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…
Investing in Rural Markets: The Secret to Real Estate Investing Success?
I live in a suburb of Rochester, New York , which is the third largest city in New York State (behind New York City and Buffalo). When I meet other investors,…
Cashflow 101: Using the Game to Define Your Investing Strategy
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard My father worked in construction and did contract work on the…
