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Feb 07, 2015Jan 27, 2024 Engelo Rumora

Protect Your Investment: How to Tell a Good Property Manager From a Bad One

Investing in real estate is similar to anything else. You purchase an asset, which generates a return. After a time you become fully capitalized and your return is all profit…

Jan 20, 2015Jan 27, 2024 Seth Williams

Property Management Companies: Is it Smart to Hire One for Your Rentals?

If you’re serious about building a profitable portfolio of rental properties, you will inevitably be faced with a critical decision about your future. Are you going to manage these properties…

Jan 14, 2015Jan 27, 2024 Seth Williams

How to Choose the Right Rental Property Manager

If you’re anything like me, you probably LOVE the idea of “passive income.” It’s okay to admit it. It’s a buzz word we’ve all been hearing about for years now, and let’s be honest……

Jan 05, 2015Jan 27, 2024 Trey Duling

5 Steps to Seamlessly Change Your Property Management Company

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Dec 15, 2014Jan 27, 2024 Trey Duling

How to Protect Your Investment Property Against Unethical Property Managers

Just yesterday, I met with a couple who owns a vacation home, and just hearing their story makes my blood boil. There is an old saying, “One bad apple spoils…

Nov 05, 2014Jan 27, 2024 Andrew Syrios

Hiring a Property Manager vs. Self Managing: What’s Better?

I have made the case that buy and hold real estate investment is the best investment around. However, it comes with two major challenges. The first is financing, which I…

Nov 05, 2014Jan 27, 2024 Drew Sygit

4 Common Maintenance & Repair Mistakes Property Managers Make

Welcome to the next installment of our ongoing series about how you, too, can totally mess up as a landlord! This time, we’re talking about what might be the second-most…

Nov 03, 2014Jan 27, 2024 Trey Duling

How to Painlessly Switch Property Management Companies

There are times when a rental property owner (long term or short term) desires to change the property management taking care of their property. Here are a few keys points you…

Apr 19, 2014Feb 06, 2024 Ali Boone

1 Question Every Landlord Forgets to Ask a Potential Property Manager

This is one question that really matters. This is the one that the answer can make or break your rental property investment. People don’t know to ask this question. I…

Oct 25, 2013May 30, 2024 Tracy Royce

How to Hire a Painter

So if you’ll notice, I didn’t title this blog “How to Hire a Good Painter”. It’s easy to hire a painter, it takes a bit more diligence to find a…

Jun 05, 2013Jan 27, 2024 Paula Pant

Finding an “Interim” Property Manager When You’re on Vacation

I recently left the country for a week, headed to a place where I literally had no phone service and limited access to email. That wasn’t a one-time-only event. I…

Mar 23, 2013Jan 27, 2024 Ali Boone

A Real-Life Property Management Setup

Literally, real-life. I’m giving you the inside scoop as to exactly what I get in terms of property management for my own rental properties. I feel inclined to reemphasize, in…

Feb 13, 2013May 30, 2024 Brenton Hayden

Start Saying “Yes!” : Customer Service Tips for the Property Manager.

Property management is not a career for shy people or those who can’t stomach confrontations. No matter how good you are at screening tenants or building a good rapport, there…