She was adamant about wanting to maintain strict control of the short sale process even though I explained she could be making much more by leveraging her efforts and handing the short sale negotiations to me, thus freeing up her time to take on more listings.

Here's my tips for the tenants who hope to secure a clean, well maintained rental in a good neighborhood.Have a pen and paper ready when you call. 95% of the tenants who call me have to go and find a pen when I try to give them the address of my unit.

I use autopilot riches and like it a lot, right now we're working on some cool stuff to auto opt leads into our autoresponder/broadcast lists as soon as the visitor goes hits the button on the squeeze page.Look into your auto-mail provider and see if they have a broadcast (single email blast) feature, this can allow you to personalize the email with their name, avoid botching your isp, and takes the hassle out of using bcc and maintaining your list the old fashion way/less effecient way.

Is it the cost of maintaining the apartments, everything from the salary of the building manager to the cost of the new bathroom fan?

Just using an LLC instead of recording a mortgage.Actually, it seems you're getting more than 100% LTV, while still maintaining control and being able to say, "all properties owned free and clear!"

Establishing and maintaining excellent credit to get that 1st loan (should you decide to go that route), and not going beyond your means in terms of spending are parts of financial discipline.

It means a lot to me and of course, helps us to maintain and improve the site.

Plus by virtue of contacting them they are obligated to fully investigate the claim and sent notations of any mold to a company like Choice Point (owned now by Lexis Nexis - the legal database firm) who maintains database records of every claim reported to them on every property throughout the US for every insurance carrier (competitors in the insurance industry all share claims data) who uses their system to determine if they want to insure a property or not.

I do highly admire the fact that you are so ambitious, willing to go to school full time, maintain a full time job AND study REI.

I was never good at doing it because there is a delicate balance between maintaining a relationship with your tenants in the interest of maintaining your property, and being the landlord that has a mortgage to pay.