Maybe you have a minimum heat requirement that is intended to prevent frozen pipes; the fact that pipes froze would indicate a violation of such a clause / addendum.How easy would it be for you to actually collect assuming the tenant admits / concedes guilt in this matter?

Maybe you could find some students to do the data entry for you, preferably students of accounting.

I suspect, with no data to back it up, that most of the Guru Graduates who attend these seminars don't have great success afterwards.

I was sitting here brainstorming ways to apply some of the outsourcing principles to my involvement as a new investor and thought I'd go public, since many minds are always better than one.So far I have a small list going, but would love to hear if you all have any other ways you have put either outsourcing, or any other 4HWW (muse creation, 80/20 rule, etc.) into your real estate businesses.Here's what I've come up with so far:Virtual Assistant (VA) tasks:screening MLS for potential dealsyellow letter campaignsGoogle Adwords tracking and implementationmanaging tenant screening process (background checks, tenant checks, etc.)tracking down absentee property ownersgenerating a list of every commercial building owner in your towncollection and aggregation of data in due diligence process for a commercial purchaseresearching cash buyers in targeted markets identifying common expense items in a new market (trash, electric, water, property tax rates, etc.)What else might make sense?

If you don't mind living next to the tenant, you can collect a rent check to help pay down (or pay completely) the mortgage.

All you can do is collect as much information as possible about them now so that if they leave, you can locate them to serve them.

Sometimes they are there to help people.Secondly, the image data is from August 2011.

The bigger issue was on the servicing and guaranteeing payments, we advanced payments as required and ten collected payments due.

This is clearly a result of the collective appreciation we’ve had over the past couple of years.

Search city and county building departments, multifamily broker's research departments (such as Marcus & Millichap), multifamily lender's research departments (such as Hendricks Berkadia) apartment data providers (such as alndata.com, MPF Research, Axiometrics, Real Data, etc.)