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Sheena R Roth
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Canton, OH
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My VA is looking for more hours

Sheena R Roth
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Canton, OH
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We have a VA who has been working for us the last 9 months for 10 hours / week.

She’s looking to add 20 hours to her work week but we’re pretty small and not looking for acquisitions at the moment, so we don’t really have enough to keep her busy for the extra hours. 

I told her I’d ask around to see if someone else in the community might have a need for her skill set.

She lives in the Philippines (VA work for USA companies is a super common career there) and she charges $5/hr USD. We pay her weekly via Wise.com.

This is what she does for us:

- Categorizes our expenses in Stessa based on our notes on the scanned receipts

- Uploads the coresponding receipts/invoices to Stessa  

- researches market rents when needed 

- Tracks pass-thru utility billing 

- Reconciliation of our books in Stessa vs. Bank account each month 

- Notifies us of missing invoices 

- follows up on maintenance requests 

- makes calls to utility companies to start or stop service (we use Google voice which allows her to make calls over the web)

In the past she's worked for other REI companies and dealt with contractors, scheduling repairs and clean outs, etc.

She’s kind and trustworthy but not very assertive which is typical of Filipino culture. As with most VAs, especially Fillipinos, she will work best with well-defined systems and clear instruction… we use Loom videos for training and Monday.com along with Google Calnedar to keep track of activities and recurring tasks. We use Google Drive to share and organize files with her.

If you have a need for this type of support please send me a message and I can answer any questions and/or put you in touch with her directly!


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