YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO WORK TO GET THINGS DONE.<\/em><\/p>\n My goal here is to help you work more effeciently.<\/p>\n I’m writing this at 6:00 a.m. which is when I usually start my day, so please understand I’m not trying to portray that I only work 4-hours a day and manage to juggle 2.5 jobs in less than 30 hours a week!<\/p>\n Ok, now let’s get down to business.<\/p>\n The first thing you need to understand is to organize and automate your real estate activity (note, I’m using activity because this can be used for agents, investors, wholesellers, etc) is that you have to go as paperless as possible and you need a dynamic central content managemenet system that will be with you online and offline.<\/p>\n In plain English, you need something that is paperless that you can edit and change on the go. \u00a0It shouldn’t matter if you have internet or not at the time.<\/p>\n Related:<\/strong> How Outsourcing & Automation Can Grow Your Real Estate Investing Business Like A Weed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The solution: Evernote<\/strong><\/p>\n I’ll be honest, Evernote was a little overwhelming and when I first signed-up I opened up the application and never used it. \u00a0There was too much going on and I didn’t feel like learning a new application.<\/p>\n Fast forward a couple of years and now it’s a critical piece of software that runs several parts of my real estate business without me. \u00a0The best part…IT’S FREE!<\/p>\n They have a paid version that I highly recommend, but just starting out, go ahead with the free version.<\/p>\n I’m going to give you two uses of Evernote that I personally and am using the application for. \u00a0One case is professional and another is personal.<\/p>\n After you have an Evernote account, you start creates notes.<\/p>\n You can neatly organize all your notes in separate notebooks. \u00a0For me, all of my properties have separate notebooks. \u00a0If I own a property with another investor I can then just share that particular notebook with that particular business partner.<\/p>\n Additionally, if a document needs to get added to that notebook, the partner can just email it to the notebook and I don’t have to do anything. \u00a0This works for property managers as well.<\/p>\n I personally love Evernote for my to-do list. \u00a0I keep my general monthly to-do list in Evernote, but I also keep a to-do list for each property in Evernote. \u00a0That way when a property manager is there they can open that property’s notebook (on their phone) and see everything I want done.<\/p>\n I live to work and work to play!<\/p>\n Currently, I’m planning a trip to Argentina and possibly Chile. \u00a0First off I have a notebook labeled Argentina. \u00a0Then I have a notebook with a bunch of random things I want to do (mainly evolving around eating steak and drinking wine).<\/p>\n Maps, flights details, car rental information, hotel information. \u00a0It’s all stored in this one notebook. \u00a0This way I don’t ever have to go looking through emails trying to find stuff when I’m at the airport or at the hotel.<\/p>\n Ok, so the two use cases above are pretty simple. \u00a0I’m sure at this point you guys are really wanting to know how to AUTOMATE something! Right?<\/p>\n \u00a0 This will be blog post 2, but I am going to show you how I use BiggerPockets with Evernote to automate some of my real estate activity.<\/p>\n First you need to go to IFTTT.com and get an account. \u00a0Don’t worry…it’s free.<\/p>\n Now keep reading.<\/p>\n Related:<\/strong> 5 Simple Strategies For Real Estate Acquisition Domination! (You are Going to LOVE #5!)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n There are some post that I absolutely love on the BiggerPockets blog. \u00a0Since the BiggerPockets blog is so huge I don’t want to go search for these particular post that I’m going to use as resources later.<\/p>\n I’m one of those weird people who still use an RSS reader. \u00a0It’s a very efficient way to comb through 100 blogs in about 10 minutes a day. \u00a0Anyway, for the post that I love that I want to use as a resource for my real estate investing I will save it for later in feedly.<\/p>\n I have created a recipe in IFTTT that automatically sends blog post that I have marked “saved for later” to Evernote.<\/p>\n Now, some of the post that I want to reference later can be found offline or online for me in Evernote.<\/p>\n Hope all of this helps!<\/p>\n Do you guy’s use Evernote for your personal and\/or business activity?<\/em><\/p>\n Let me know how in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To keep this organized I’m going to do a series of post on organizing and automating your real estate activity. 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Property.<\/h2>\n
Trip to Argentina<\/h2>\n
Automation with\u00a0BiggerPockets.com and Evernote<\/h2>\n
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