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New Landlord Letter: the Why, the What, and a Free Example
A new landlord letter introduces the residents of a property to their new landlord and/or professional property management company. This letter is a valuable and essential way to connect with your tenants, provide helpful information, outline processes, and establish some expectations and ground rules. When Should You Write a New Landlord Letter? As a rental…
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Lookbook 2: Rental Property Kitchens, Bathrooms, and Bedrooms
Welcome back to the second installment in our 2-part series on rental property updates that improve your investment. In the first post, we laid the groundwork with broader strategies to enhance your property’s overall appeal, focusing on creating high-quality, comfortable properties. We discussed the importance of offering the best property, setting fair market rents, and…
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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,…