The Investor Insights

This is a post that’s taken me a while to write.  On May 17th my niece and friend Denise was killed by her ex-fiancé in a murder suicide. It’s horrifying to type those words but I still feel numb.  It’s as if your brain just shuts off the pain because it is too overwhelming to [...]

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 [...]