Crime Proof Your Block: Less Hassles More Equity
Wednesday, July 11
If you have an inner city rental in your long term holdings, you may be interested my post regarding crime proofing your block. It describes some very easy and economical steps a landlord can take to boost their property value while making their rental more hassle free. Click HERE to read and co...
Why the Landlord Job Description Limits Income Opportunities
Saturday, June 30
What’s your definition of the landlord job description? Does it center on collecting rents and keeping the property looking nice and in good working order? If so, you’re in step with me – and we’re both limiting our incomes.I’m still attempting to discover new ways landlords can provide more lucr...
Detroit Landlord Blogs His Way to Higher Rents and Equity
Tuesday, June 19
Hey Everybody,I want to direct your attention to this New York Times article by Melina Emerson. It describes how Eric Brown of Urbane Apartments uses two of the 8 Habits of Highly Effective Inner City Landlords to build demand, reduce vacancies, and grow equity. He uses Habit #7, Promote and Cir...
8 Habits of Highly Effective Inner City Landlords
Sunday, June 03
Special thanks to Ibrahim Hughes who agreed to help with this post. We hope you find it useful on your quest to be a great landlord. Did you know inner city landlords have super powers? They can easily amass equity with very little effort, but all too often they don’t even try. Yes, they reno...
Why Landlords Should Sponsor Block Parties
Thursday, May 31
The landlord stereotype needs an extreme makeover. There is no reason to drag the default tactics from the last century into this one. We are now living in a Web 2.0 world where the desire to connect socially is more important than ever. And just like Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, landlord...
Breakup Sub-Niches for Big Savings
Tuesday, May 29
In our last post, we discussed sub-niches and how Nick Sidoti used this tactic to rent his single-family rentals for up to 3 times market rates. Since then, I’ve started thinking about what I’d do if I found myself exploited by a monopoly.Going with the pizza vendor analogy, we previously conclud...