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- 7 Inexpensive Improvements to Sell or Rent it Tomorrow
[Real-Estate:Investing] It's not often you have an extra $50,000 sitting around to fix up your home or investment property for sale or rent, so what do you do to set your house apart from the rest? Here are seven cheap ways to drastically improve the appeal of your property, to secure that sales contract or rental contract tomorrow!
- Finding & Evaluating Mortgage Lenders For Real Estate Investing
[Real-Estate:Mortgage-Refinance] Choosing the right mortgage lender for a given investment property can often save or cost you thousands of dollars, so it's not a decision that should be made lightly. Here's an overview of mortgage lenders for real estate investing professionals, to help clarify the often muddy waters of mortgage lending.
- Microtargeting Real Estate Renovations For Resale - Real Estate Investing Tips
[Real-Estate:Investing] Too many real estate investors fall afoul of over-improving properties when they renovate them for resale. Just as often, real estate investors will spend money on the wrong improvements, ignoring the critical ones that will help their piece of property sell. Here's a brief overview of the importance of microtargeting specific demographics, and tailoring your renovation plan to that targeted market.
- Wholesaling Real Estate - Risks, Rewards, & Reality
[Real-Estate:Investing] Wholesaling real estate, or buying discounted properties directly from the source, is an extremely challenging and complex business. In this overview, we'll go over what some of the risks and challenges are, as well as a broad look at what is necessary to succeed.
- What It's Like to Be a Landlord - Pros, Cons, and the Experience
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] More and more homeowners find themselves becoming small-time landlords, in the current market that remains difficult for sellers. But what is it like to be a landlord? What are the pros? The cons? From signing a rental agreement to serving an eviction notice, here's a guide for the curious about what it's actually like to be a landlord.
- Green Home Improvements to Save Money & Help Market For a Sales Or Rental Agreement
[Home-Improvement:Energy-Efficiency] Green home improvements serve several purposes at once: saving money, improving your home or rental property's value by appealing to high-end tenants, and helping to reduce environmental impact. With a little bit of foresight and attention, you can save money on utility bills, installation costs, and have a far easier time marketing your sales contract or rental agreement.
- Real Estate Investing & the Turnaround - Are We There Yet?
[Real-Estate:Investing] An 189 page Fitch Ratings Report issued in July 2009 cites hope that we are at or near the real estate market's bottom, which is good news for homeowners and real estate investing professionals alike. The optimism is cautious, however, as negative factors abound in the national housing market.
- How to Make Small Homes Seem Twice As Large
[Real-Estate:Home-Staging] Whether you're a homeowner or tenant, realtor or landlord looking to sign a lease agreement, making small homes and apartments seem larger is a useful trick. Here are a few tips on how to do it inexpensively, no matter how small your apartment is.
- Six Rules to Maximize Your Rental Business
[Real-Estate:Property-Management] Whether you own one rental property or a hundred, there are certain rules that apply to maximize your return on investment in your rental business. Here are six rules that will help you prevent costly problems that can plague all landlords and property managers.
- Real Estate Investing For Any Market
[Real-Estate:Investing] You've probably had moments of despair in the last year or two, if you're in the real estate investing business, when your bank statements were particularly frightening. The economic (and real estate) waters rise and fall, and smart investors and businesspeople must learn to surf at both high and low tide.
- Why New Landlords Fail And How to Succeed With Your Rental Agreement
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] More budding landlords fail than you might think, generally because they underestimate the costs and expertise involved in managing rental properties. Here are some tips to help keep you above water with your rental agreement, and keep you solvent.
- Eviction - Standard Operating Procedures
[Real-Estate:Property-Management] Eviction is not a fun part of being a landlord, but it is a necessary part. Here's a brief breakdown of the standard eviction process, while noting that each state has different specific laws regarding eviction notices, cure periods, etc.
- Landlord Tips - How to Raise the Rent on Your Rental Agreement
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] Landlords have to raise the rents on their rental properties sometimes, as their costs (mortgage rates, insurance premiums, property taxes, etc.) go up, and as market rents rise. It can be a tricky and unpleasant conversation to have with your tenants, so here are a few ideas to help make the conversation smoother and more successful.
- How to Chop Your Rental Vacancy Rate in Half
[Real-Estate:Property-Management] Take a moment and consider the costs associated with vacant rental properties: mortgage payments, property taxes, hazard insurance, utilities, break-ins, vandalism, maintenance, landscaping. Not a lot of fun to be paying every month, which means you need to cut your rental vacancy rates to a bare minimum.
- How to Avoid Trouble Tenants
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] The last thing any landlord wants is trouble tenant, because there's no end to the headaches they can create. From not paying rent, to trashing your rental property, to suing you, these opportunistic savages are to be avoided at all costs. So how do spot them before it's too late?
- How to Leave it All Behind and Move to Paradise
[Real-Estate:Moving-Relocating] Ever daydreamed about giving up all of your worldly possessions and moving to a beach in the Caribbean? Of course you have. Everyone dreams about it, and no one actually does it. What would it take to actually go through with it?
- How to Reject a Rental Application Without Being Sued
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] Landlords have enough to worry about without having to worry about rental applicants turning around and suing over "discrimination." With a few quick steps, you can prevent these lawsuits from rejected rental applications, and have one less type of lawsuit to worry about.
- How to Succeed in Real Estate Without Really Trying
[Real-Estate:Investing] Everyone wants to make a lot of money without really trying. What are the steps? What does it take? When it comes to real estate, it comes down to two simple rules. Not everyone who makes money in real estate works from 6AM until 11PM every day; we all probably know one or two people in real estate who never seem to be working. What does it take to become one of them?
- The Rental Property Retirement Plan
[Real-Estate:Investing] Countless people worldwide "get into real estate" in order to bring in extra money, invest for the future, or form a new career. But what if you could retire after only a few years of real estate investing, a wealthy landlord? There are a lot of real estate formulas out there, and some of them are perfectly valid, but we're going to talk about an alternative formula, based on minimum rental ownership and maximum cash flow. It's simple, which is not the same as "easy," but it's certainly attainable by anyone.
- When to Buy Into Real Estate
[Real-Estate:Investing] People love to debate about when is the right time to invest in real estate, but it's a fool's argument. Care to know why?
- How to Handle Bad Tenants
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] Handling bad tenants is, quite simply, a nightmare. That said, there are ways to minimize the damage caused by bad tenants, through prevention and proper planning.
- Property Management - What's the Deal?
[Real-Estate:Property-Management] Some landlords and real estate investors are reluctant to hand over the reins to their rental properties, and understandably so. But using a property management company can help many landlords and real estate investors get back to their primary business: making money.
- Real Estate Investing - Creating Safety Nets
[Real-Estate:Investing] As any seasoned real estate investor can tell you, things rarely go according to plan. With that in mind, the more effective safety nets you can put in place for your real estate investments, the more often you'll find that you still made money even if your original plan went south.
- Staging For Real Estate - Sell Or Rent it Now
[Real-Estate:Selling] The difference between selling and not selling is how appealing your property is on a gut level, on your buyers' first impression. There are some small things you can do to make a BIG difference, by staging the property to be warm, welcoming, and all those other fuzzy things that fickle home-buyers and tenants look for.
- Top 5 Common SEO Mistakes
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] You created a product, you created a website, and it's beautiful, but there's still something missing... visitors! Search engine optimization (SEO) is what you've discovered and started working on to increase your site's traffic, but there are a lot pitfalls on the road to SEO, so here's a list of 5 common ones to avoid.
- Preventing Lawsuits - A Landlord's Guide
[Real-Estate:Leasing-Renting] The sad and scary truth is that landlords walk this earth with a giant target sign on them, shouting "SUE ME!" Statistically, most landlords will be involved in litigation at least once in their careers, and I can tell you from personal experience, the process is about as fun as having wisdom teeth pulled, and much more expensive.
- How to Invest in Real Estate With No Cash
[Real-Estate:Investing] It's a buyer's market, so you might be tempted to pick up a property or two to keep as rental units. The problem is, you don't have a lot of cash lying around to do it. What do you do? Here are some creative ways to get in on real estate investing, without the advantage of a massive bank account.
- De-Mystifying the Lease-Option Agreement - How & When to Use
[Real-Estate:Selling] Lease-option agreements are a concept and term that get thrown around a lot, but what are they all about? When are they a good idea? Here's brief overview of what they are and when they can be useful.
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