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Posted over 16 years ago

"If your method is so good, why is no one doing it in my area?”

Max Cash Flow Now: “If your method to increase rental property cash flow is so good, why is no one doing it in my area?”  We often are asked this question, and there are varieties of reasons.  Chief among them is lack of awareness.  You have probably never been in on a discussion about a program like ours. It’s just not an area that has been considered.  Now that the need is so great, more and more investors are beginning to learn how they can get involved, make the most of an existing rental property, and consequently contribute to their communities.  In addition, many property owners who have rental property shy away from the tenant population we thrive on because of the following:

  • Couldn’t pass a background check
  • Doesn’t have a credit history and it doesn’t even have a bank account
  • No rental history
  • May not initially be employed

Nonetheless this market of renters is entering our communities all the time and they need and want to find clean, affordable furnished housing.   By now you must think we are absolutely nuts. Why would we suggest you rent to such an individual?  Fair question.

Why consider this tenant population?  They have:

  • Initial financial support from family, friends and sometimes the state
  • They often have honed good job skills
  • They persevere in finding employment often working jobs that other will not
  • They can pay a modest weekly/monthly rent plus the security deposit
  • They are willing to live with house rules that require them to keep a clean, safe home
  • They don’t sign leases so when necessary are easy to evict
  • They are people who need to catch a break and therefore are very appreciative renters
  • They are often involved with programs that assist them in acquiring skills to be contributing members of society

 I’ve found that the most successful investors, in any area of real estate investing, are so successful because they do think “outside the box.”  One property owner I spoke with today is just getting enough in rents to cover the mortgage on his duplex, ($1,600) giving him zero cash flow.  He had never heard of or considered a program such as ours before. After learning more and doing the numbers, he would gross $3,940 a month, providing a net income of $2,340 a month, where before he had no profit at all!  Thinking outside the norm is one way to beat the odds in any economy.

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