You can clean a property, set up a wireless alarm system, turn the power or the gas on and off, touch up paint throughout a fixed house, go through the MLS, answer the phone, follow a checklist, fetch coffee and donuts, plug numbers into a calculator or spreadsheet, file paperwork, and drive.

However, that’s how the system is structured.

Im working on a system to help BRRR buyers in oklahoma city.

I am a 1st time investor from NJ, looking for a property to buy and then put on rent. Since NJ is too expensive to invest, so I am looking for other states. Seeing some good reviews on NC and FL in real estate, I am t...

@Tyler Altomare The series of books by Don Campbell are Canadian Specific and are really good at laying out his system for REI known as the ACRE system. 

This system allows me get my places back clean and I don't lose money.

Doing it poorly will make you not want to get up in the morning, and most landlords do it very poorly.Rather than trying to source and then assemble all the key components of a comprehensive and bulletproof property management system (e.g., lease management, repair management, payment processing, lease renewal management, etc.), find someone who already does that and then let them do their job.That way, you can focus on your job: finding great deals!

The owner has an ADT security system in the house.

Unless I'm understanding it wrong, when three years end the foreclosure process/quiet title is still on the investor and versus the old procedure you could have had possession early in process.

I bought 5 single family rental homes this year so I have a lot of negative cash flow to report on taxes.  I'd like to declare myself a "real estate professional" as I'm on sabbatical from my W2 job this year and coul...