How to Scale a Real Estate Investment and Management Company
Friday, January 08
Douglas Skipworth has built a massive real estate investment and property management company in Memphis, TN named CrestCore Realty. Today, it has over 2500 units under management! In 2018, he sat down with Andrew for an interview on scaling such a business for a now, unfortunately, abandoned book...
How to Find a Great (Investment-Minded) Real Estate Agent
Tuesday, January 05
Video on Finding Deals on the MLS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ox_... If you decide to work with a real estate agent to find potential investments, you obviously need to find the right one. It's not just that some agents area good and some are bad. It's also that some agents have a mindset ...
Are There Still Deals on the MLS?
Friday, January 01
The MLS is where real estate agents put all of their listings. It is by far the best place to find listed properties and, perhaps more importantly, assess the value of a property by comparing to other similar properties that have sold recently. Back in 2011 and 2012, the MLS was a great source fo...
What to Do When a Tenant Calls at 2:00 AM | A Guide to Emergency Maint
Tuesday, December 29
Video on general maintenance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWwI1... Emergency calls from tenants are the scariest thing that any landlord or property manager has to deal with. Indeed, some people are frightened away from real estate investment entirely because they don't want to deal with suc...
Why We're Moving to California...
Friday, December 25
...Because we can't leave California unless we move there first. Yes, California is trending the wrong direction and doing quite bad in a lot of places (although it's still an economic juggernaut). So how bad is it and what happened? And should real estate investors invest there? Should they se...
Doing Maintenance Right | Property Management
Tuesday, December 22
Remember: Maintenance = Customer Service! Video on property management and managing the manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZJ9_... Maintenance is simultaneously boring and frightening. "Oh God, what do I do if an angry tenant calls?" Luckily, there are ways to prepare for it, no matter...