I have really been struggling with a couple of things over the last few weeks. Probably the most pressing one is whether I allow the tools we use internally to be released to a wider audience. On one hand, I like to help other investors and all… but… on the other hand, I know these [...]

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This was accidentally posted here by mistake. You can read the article at…
http://timowensby.com/think-it-global-positioning-system-your-real-estate-investing

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Tim Owensby on December 22nd, 2009

Ask any real estate investor and by far their biggest problems are with managing the assets they are so eager to acquire.
It doesn’t matter whether they manage their properties themselves or hire a property manager. The majority of their problems, concerns, headaches, worries and losses all revolve around property management.
It is tedious, time consuming, error [...]

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Tim Owensby on December 10th, 2009

Two days ago I talked about landlords giving tenants self service options to reduce the landlord’s or property manager’s work load, reduce costs and improve tenant satisfaction. Since then, I have received several contact emails from here saying they couldn’t post a comment for some reason (we are looking into it) and asking if I [...]

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Everyone out there seems to hype automation and software tools. This analysis software from this company, that one from another.
There is no doubt as you grow, you will need to automate somethings in order to keep your sanity and continue to grow. It is all but impossible to do everything manually if you are doing [...]

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Tim Owensby on August 26th, 2009

A few months ago, my team of developers completed the rewrite of the toolset my partners and I use for our investing efforts. It was a very successful project but as just about all internal projects end up, it is very specific to our business operations and model. Initially, the idea was we would also [...]

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Tim Owensby on June 27th, 2009

Last Thursday morning I spoke at a breakfast meeting of real estate investors. One of the questions that came up was about forums on the internet. The person asked me if there were any forums I could specifically recommend for general reading about real estate investing. I named several and noticed the pens flying to [...]

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Over the last 18 months I have managed the rewrite of several software tools my partners and I use in our investing businesses. When we embarked on this journey we had very high hopes. We were going to outsource. The outsourcing firms give really GREAT interview, by the way.
Our list of “benefits” was long. We [...]

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Continue reading about And So Ends My Absolute LAST Participation With Outsourcing Development Overseas

The title sounds ominous huh?
What do I mean by the accidental real estate investor? The accidental investor is one who mostly flies by the seat of their pants. They jump from one thing to another trying to make a deal work. They more often than not run their business in a very haphazard manner. They [...]

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Tim Owensby on March 26th, 2009

The second half of it was an open discussion on finding, vetting and tracking private lenders as relationships are developed.
I demonstrated the software we use to do that and opened a Pandora’s box. The conversation turned from managing the relationship with private lenders to “How can I get my hands on THAT software?”
I promised them [...]

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