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Marketing 101 for Real Estate Investors
What do you do when you have to get a property sold in a market that’s on a downward turn? Your first thought might be to slash the price and slap a listing on every website known to man. Unfortunately many like you have tried this option to no avail.
What To Consider When Renting A Furnished Rental Property
Renting out a furnished property is not the same as renting out a regular, empty property. Although the rules for attracting and screening tenants don’t change, furnished properties come with their own sets of challenges and these need to be considered before you turn your home into a furnished rental property:
4 Steps to Find the Best Tenants for Your Rental Property
As real estate investors, my husband and I try to keep our business goals in focus at all times. We want to make sound decisions that will cause our investments to be profitable. Fortunately we have found success renting out our properties (on just two properties we bring in $1,200 per month of revenue from rents). While dealing with tenant issues can be challenging, we make it a habit to deal with problems by not allowing our emotions to get involved.
Something to Know When Buying Rent Houses
There are so many choices for No Money Down Real Estate Programs taught by a well known instructor these days. And many of these programs will teach you techniques to find good priced piece of real estate. The instructors make you feel that you have to feel like you’re practically stealing rent houses youre getting them so cheap if you use their techniques.
Keeping Investment Property Records The Easy Way
Even though I should know better, I got behind in my record keeping last year and had to struggle through everything during tax time. I just couldn’t find the time to keep the property management books up to date. Between starting up our online real estate investing education business, a property renovation, getting married and our extracurricular activities (we love adventure racing), I didn’t have much time left for bookkeeping.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Real Estate Investors
The book titled Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen Covey, was first published in1989. I found my old copy of the book the other day, and as I flipped through the pages I started wondering what the seven habits of highly effective real estate investors would be.
A Simple Trick for Big Retirement Savings
I am the big sister to two kid brothers. Like any older sister, I worry about my brothers, even now. Most of all, I worry about their futures. The one closest to my age is the one I worry about the most lately.
Should You Rent Out a Furnished Property?
Offering a furnished rental is definitely not the same as offering a regular rental property. The general principals of attracting and screening good tenants are the same, but there are some important things you should know if you’re interested in turning your home into a furnished rental or buying a property to become a furnished rental:
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Real Estate Investors
Remember that book by Stephen Covey that was printed in 1989, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? In it’s day it was a best seller, and even now it’s still great advice. I found my old copy on my shelf the other day and I started to wonder… what would the seven habits of a successful real estate investor be?
Rules of Real Estate from Monopoly
You can lose money in real estate. That is a fact. It doesn’t matter if the market is hot or cold. I’ve lost money on properties even when the real estate market was soaring sky high. So I know real estate is not without risk. But through these mistakes and some good investments, I’ve realized that there is almost never a bad time to buy property. But, there are definitely bad properties to buy!
