What Liability Do You Assume When You Allow Pets In Your Rental Property? There has been so much discussion on BiggerPockets about whether or not you should allow pets in your rental property. This is also a topic that comes up frequently at our REIA group.Some folks feel very strongly (like I once did) that they always end up damaging the property, so they just don’t allow them. Other landlords welcome pets and feel they get better tenants. What I found in my business, was that if the … [Read more...]
What Liability Do You Assume When You Allow Pets In Your Rental Property?
October 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
12 Tips for Being a Good Landlord and Having Happy Tenants
August 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
12 Tips for Being a Good Landlord and Having Happy Tenants Every landlord would like to lower the turnover in their properties. It’s costly to attract and retain good tenants, not to mention the costs you incur when they move out and you have to turn a vacant rental. It just makes good business sense to strive to have happy, long term tenants in your properties. However, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have good systems in place and treat this like a business. Here are some … [Read more...]
Reduce Your Mobile Home Vacancy Rate
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Reduce Your Mobile Home Vacancy RateHaving a vacancy in your investment mobile home is an inevitable part of the mobile home investing business if you will be renting or selling (via payments) a mobile home inside a park or attached to private land. Although this vacancy process can be thought of as an unpleasant experience, with just a few attitude and business adjustments you can continue business as usual the next time you have a mobile home vacancy.In the start of my career I experienced an … [Read more...]
Getting Rid of Problem Tenants with Cash for Keys
February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Getting Rid of Problem Tenants with Cash for KeysBuilding a profitable buy and hold rental property business can be tough. A lot of folks fail to treat this as a business and end up getting into trouble. Having systems and following those systems is so important if you are to be successful and keep your sanity.It’s pretty easy fly by the seat of your pants when you only have a few properties. Later on when you have added more rentals, it gets much harder.In the beginning when I bought my first … [Read more...]
Pets in Your Rental Property?
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pets in Your Rental Property?This has been a subject that has been debated for as long as I can remember; whether or not to allow your tenants to have pets. What I have always found, is that it really doesn’t matter what your policy is. They are probably going to bring them whether or not you actually allow pets.When I bought my first couple of rental properties, I was very clear that I didn’t want pets in my houses. I didn’t want to have to replace the carpet after each tenant because of … [Read more...]
Testimonials To Build Your Real Estate Business
October 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Testimonials To Build Your Real Estate BusinessEntrepreneurs that happen to be real estate investors, are constantly looking for ways to grow our business. We spend a lot of time marketing for motivated sellers, adding quality buyers to our buyers’ list, and looking for tenants for our properties. But once we have those people on our list, what do we typically fail to do? Figure out other ways to build our credibility and make money from these contacts.What can we do with our motivated … [Read more...]
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