If your goal is long-term financial independence, rent growth has to beat inflation—otherwise your income slowly loses buying power.Here’s the key point: rent growth is driven by the city, not the property.

Investment Info:Single-family residence renovation investment.Purchase price: $135,000Cash invested: $64,963Sale price: $252,000Contributors:Peter VekselmanPartner Driven partnered with Preston Moore on a renovation project in Guntersville, Alabama.

Hey I’ve been working on something big and starting to bring the right people around it early.It’s a high-end experience-driven project, and I’m connecting with a few business-minded people to share the vision and get their thoughts before we take the next step.

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AI-fronted intake, not shared inboxes or phonesAll maintenance requests route through an AI intake layer (voice, text, form).

I highly suggest using AI and ask it to think like a chicago landlord attorney and come up with anything that could go wrong and put that into the lease so its as clean and clear as possible.I've had some challenging tenants lately and it's only then that you realize the need to take all these additional steps.  6 years with no issues and then one after another this past year.

Hey I’ve been working on something big and starting to bring the right people around it early.It’s a high-end experience-driven project, and I’m connecting with a few business-minded people to share the vision and get their thoughts before we take the next step.

Investment Info:Single-family residence renovation investment.Purchase price: $70,000Cash invested: $50,772Sale price: $168,900Contributors:Peter VekselmanPartner Driven partnered with BJ and Traci Medlen on a renovation project in Lebanon, Missouri.

They are using Ai to generate responses over text.

When it does make sense to use softwareIf you start feeling like you’re running a calendar-driven business instead of owning real estate, that’s usually the tipping point.