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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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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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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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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Tim Owensby on March 17th, 2009

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a bit of a misnomer because you never really manage the relationship you have with your customer but it is the term adopted when SFA – Sales Force Automation – became passe.
I am a firm believer in the use of a good CRM system in any kind [...]

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