Bill J.
Rental Management Software
I have been reviewing different software programs and am currently on a 7 day test period with "Rent Manager"....I have also looked at "Point2" and some free spreadsheets on the web. I am just starting but plan to gro...
Tina Jenkins
Flipped my first Property now doing a 1031 and need advise!
I sold my 1st property a 4 plex. I am doing my 1st 1031 exchange. I bought it for 172.000 two years ago and slowly fixed it up. I sold it for 255,000 and close on Wednesday September 23rd of this month. My plan is to ...
Sarah Murphy
DC Housing Choice Voucher Program- any experience?
Hi all,First time poster. I'm not a real estate investor, but my husband and I bought our condo in DC (Capitol Hill) a couple years ago and then moved long-distance so we decided to keep it and rent it out. First year...
Rachel Kokosenski
Comparison of Fees Charged by Direct Booking Sites?
Has anyone seen a list comparing the fees (if any) for each of the top direct booking sites? Does it pay to be on every single one at the beginning? Or, should I just focus on Air BnB and HomeAway at first? Can you re...
Nate S.
Getting Prospective Tenants to Trust You When Managing from Afar
Hi all.Some up-front info. I manage several rentals from afar. I am about 2 hours away from them. I just had a property turn over and followed this procedure for the showings:
I advertise the property and handle all ...
Carley C.
Finding Properties to buy through obtaining delinquint Tax deeds
Hi, ive been reading that it's a great place to find leads going through the delinquint tax deeds for a certain area. I have been looking at largo and orlando. It is so hard to find the delinquint tax deeds publishe...
Justin Vincent
Condo pro-forma
I'm looking at acquiring a condo for the convenience of having a place close to work that I can rent out in the short term future (3-5 years.) I have a back of the envelope pro-forma analysis in excel that I use when ...
William F.
I use Zaps to automatically track communication w/ Insightly
So I built a way to automatically track SMS and voice messages with Insightly. If you aren't tracking your communication with people (or at least scheduling it) you're probably missing out. I use Insightly to manage m...
Jason Schmidt
these deals don't really exist ... right?
after talking on the phone with a client a few days ago, he casually mentioned that a family member of his was going to let his house - 3 years away from being paid off - foreclose, because he was sick of paying on it...
Jack B.
New tenant claims black mold in washing machine
They just moved in yesterday....I'm going out there to take a look. Any specific suggestions on how to handle this?