Get on Craigslist, Offer Up - start looking for deals on everything... water heaters, tools, lumber, etc.

With so many advancements in the past 20 years that have changed the p.m. industry its important for your p.m. to up to date on the new trends and tools available that make your property (and themselves) relevant.Bad traits:-Lack of procedures.  

The strategy is best described in Joel Greenblatt's fantastic book, and an outstanding practical guide and tool for executing it can be found over at the Magic Diligence website.You can do either (or both) of those using the "leverage" of Options, allowing for substantial upside potential compared to standard stock purchases, with dramatically reduced downside (if you want a no-hype education on Options, Erik Kobayashi-Solomon's book is great).Those with the patience and inclination can indeed use Option trading to make money in any market condition (Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and "Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb all spent time -- and made lots and lots of money -- as options traders in their careers).For even more leverage, you could of course do any of the above (and much more) on margin (meaning your brokerage lends you money to do the investment), though that's not something I would ever do personally.Also, if you focus on holding stocks (or options) for at least a year, you benefit from favorable tax treatment of the profits.

You will have to disclose your license on marketing, but I've never viewed that as a downside that couldn't be turned into a benefit:  if I were licensed, I would use that as a tool to discuss why a client should work with me rather than an "unknown and unlicensed" wholesaler.

Did you feel it was missing specific features that investment CRM's provide?

The owner finance and subject to has really got my interest peaked and I feel like it could be a great tool to add to the old tool belt.  

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I've used the BP rental calculator to process about over a dozen deals. Today I was trying to run a new deal and the ROI was coming back as "inf%". Has anyone else encountered this? Any idea on what it's meaning is? I...

http://www.kwikset.com/smartsecurity/re-key-techno...I just look on eBay for "builder packs" - 10 locks in cardboard boxes instead of retail bubble-packs..I've scored them as low as $10 a lock -  I key everything the same myself - if you goof up, there's a video on YouTube showing how to re-key a borked setup (only done it twice so far), and there's also a $3 tool to flip the lock cylinder so the keys all go in the same way..  

Couple of suggestions: 1) we use an online tool called Haines Criss Cross+ Real Estate.