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Lookbook 1: Rental Property Updates that Improve Your Investment
It’s a secret we share often (so, not really a secret at all): the key to success in rental real estate is 3 fold: Here, we’re going deep on that #1 item: how can you make your rental the best property on the market? What, exactly, are your tenants looking for? And why do these…
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Money Matters: House Flipping & Cash Flow for the Buy-and-Hold Investor
Part 2 of our series: A House Flipping Strategy for Buy-and-Hold Investors Flipping houses can be a very complicated and risky investment strategy—unless you change your point of view, which is exactly what we’re doing in this 2-part blog series. In the first post, we introduced the concept of “flipping to yourself,” contrasting it with traditional…
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Flip or Rent? An Investor’s Take on House Flipping
In September of 2009, our owner purchased the very first of our now 1,050 owned rental properties. He chose something that was supposedly turnkey, because the complexity and cost of rehabbing seemed too much, and he still needed to learn the business. The property began generating income, and he began learning. A lot. Very quickly.…
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Maximize ROI with More Efficient Apartment Turnover
As any real estate investor can tell you, apartment turnover is the most substantial cost in property management. In the best of worlds, we’d never need to turn over a unit at all. But that’s not the way this business works. So we target the next-best things: Most of this post will focus on #2,…
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The Ultimate New Landlord Checklist
When diving into the world of real estate and property investment, a new landlord checklist can help break complicated requirements into clear action steps and areas of focus. And this is a big benefit, because while real estate investing can be lucrative, it’s also a lot of work. Along with acquiring properties and screening potential…
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A Year in Review: Insights for Rental Property Owners
The New Year marked a milestone at Epic Property Management: our first full year of sharing insights for property investors on this blog. With our inaugural batch of high-value content wrapped up, it seems a perfect time to recap our most useful posts. We hope this will be a quick and useful resource to help…