We're happy to take emails or phone calls during business hours but tenants have just gravitated toward texts and that's ok with me... it's simple and it's in writing so everyone is clear about commitments.

Lesson: Do not ever, ever, ever rent out of a sense of desperation or simple need to lease the property.

It must be in writing.Something to the effect,I Bob The Builder do entrust Thomas The Train to carry out all functions required for the successful administration of property located at xxxx), might suffice.Signed, DateNotary stamp goes in bottom right corner.Thats the simple function I used when I deployed at least :D

Managing the out of state rentals can be simple or difficult, just what you want to hear right?!!

He makes plenty of hundreds of thousands of dollars as the W2s and tax returns show to cover this simple loan.

However, when someone leaves a message, whether it is short and simple like:Hey James, saw you on the forums and thought we had some similar real estate goals, so I thought I would send you a colleague request.To some longer messages where people ask questions or comment on previous forum posts...I will always accept.

The damage one person can do to you with a simple negative blog post about you has tsunami sized ripple effects.This lady actually said to me, "I Googled you.

More often than not the answer to something like this is quite simple and more important is we JUST DO IT!

Sounds simple enough when its explained in some of those webinars but actually if you don't close on the deal (for whatever unforeseen reason) you just made the current owner about $10K to $15K profit.

Keep it simple :) Only had to clean them out in the spring at my first property, due to an overflow of "helicopters" aka seedlings.