What sorts of tasks do you use a VA for?

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What sorts of tasks do you use a VA for?

Bill C.
Rental Property Investor · Pittsburgh, PA · Member since 2016 · 51 posts · 11 votes

Hello BP!

I was wondering what everyone uses VAs for.

I understand the utility of their services for wholesaling or marketing but I was wondering about other cool applications that you may heard of.

Thanks!

PS: I’m a buy and hold investor so anything in that line if investing would be much appreciated :)

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Drew SygitBusiness Member
Property Manager · Royal Oak, MI · Member since 2012 · 12k+ posts · 9k+ votes
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Thanks @Filipe Pereira

First, you want to understand the difference between a VA and a Remote Worker. The major difference is their mindset and skill level. VA's do a task and get paid, caring little for your busines. Remote Workers are workers that don't work in your office.

We learned that the hard way and now primarily use Remote Workers. 

So, what can you use them for - start with any repetitive task you can easily create step-by-step procedures for. We started with:

1) Bookkeeping: we scanned invoices and emailed to them to rename and organize, and input in our accounting system. Also got every invoice we could emailed to a Group email address we added them to, so they got them.

2) Applications: they processed the documents applicants sent in and followed up on missing items. All done in Dropbox.

We also started out taking a video of our computer screen walking them through what we wanted them to do. We even had one of them create written procedures from the videos, that we then did final edit on.

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  • Filipe Pereira
    Property Manager · Windsor Locks, CT · Member since 2016 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
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    I've often wondered the same @Bill C.. I know some people use VAs for maintenance related calls, but to be honest I feel like I don't get enough maintenance related calls to hire it out to a VA. @Drew Sygit does a lot of work with VAs, and I've been meaning to pick his brain about it, but haven't gotten around to it just yet. Maybe he can chime in here. 

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  • Drew SygitBusiness Member
    Property Manager · Royal Oak, MI · Member since 2012 · 12k+ posts · 9k+ votes
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    Thanks @Filipe Pereira

    First, you want to understand the difference between a VA and a Remote Worker. The major difference is their mindset and skill level. VA's do a task and get paid, caring little for your busines. Remote Workers are workers that don't work in your office.

    We learned that the hard way and now primarily use Remote Workers. 

    So, what can you use them for - start with any repetitive task you can easily create step-by-step procedures for. We started with:

    1) Bookkeeping: we scanned invoices and emailed to them to rename and organize, and input in our accounting system. Also got every invoice we could emailed to a Group email address we added them to, so they got them.

    2) Applications: they processed the documents applicants sent in and followed up on missing items. All done in Dropbox.

    We also started out taking a video of our computer screen walking them through what we wanted them to do. We even had one of them create written procedures from the videos, that we then did final edit on.

    [email protected]248-209-6824
    Logical Property Management4.9451 Reviews
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  • Bill C.
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    Rental Property Investor · Pittsburgh, PA · Member since 2016 · 51 posts · 11 votes
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    @Drew Sygit

    Great thank you for the suggestions Drew!

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  • Drew SygitBusiness Member
    Property Manager · Royal Oak, MI · Member since 2012 · 12k+ posts · 9k+ votes
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    @Bill C. Your welcome. Please give our reply a vote!

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