The Investor Insights

As you’ve read on the blog this month, I don’t like managing my own properties. I like to pay someone a percentage of the rents to do it for me. Here are five icky property problems a good property manager will nip in the bud while I sit back and earn a cash flow. Water [...]

Property management is more than just collecting rents and keeping the place in decent shape; it’s about increasing property value and cash flow. Today, let’s look at a few ways to make property improvements and earn a dime. Use that blank brick wall facing 5th Street to generate tenants or funds. Is your property tall [...]

I’ve got a friend who bought a property with a partner in Kentucky. He walked into the deal without knowing that the property management group was basically giving away 90 days of rent money to attract new tenants. They also dragged their feet on giving financial reports. This ended up costing him a lot in [...]

Property managers fall into three degrees of certification. Here’s how to decode the alphabet soup of property management certifications and the benefits of working with each kind. According to the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), it’s a big deal to be certified in one of their three designations – CPM, ARM and AMO. Let’s [...]

Rarely have I seen a real estate investing program create the kind of buzz that Phill Grove’s Assignment of Mortgage Payment System is creating. I literally am seeing people have flame wars on the discussion forums about the strategy. Ei yi yi. Simma. Down Now. I admit I had some concerns when I met Phill [...]