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Tim Owensby on December 29th, 2009

Wait, before you jump off this page mumbling about how insensitive or cruel I am, you might want to read on.
There are so many options available to a landlord now to receive their rent there is no reason you should be waiting for a tenant to pay you.
Unless you only accept cash… which is foolish [...]

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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 16th, 2009

Property managers are having a tough time. Yeah, I know, I can hear the mock sounds of pity from investors who have been burned by property managers.
But, even the good ones are having trouble. No, you are not more likely to suddenly find yourself face to face with a unicorn than finding a good property [...]

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Continue reading about If You Look Like OverHead, You Might Get Cut

If you are like a lot of landlords in the United States today you might be looking around and asking yourself what is going to happen? The unemployment rate is projected to stay above 10% for all of 2010 and well into 2011. Other costs are going up and to top it all off rental [...]

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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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Continue reading about By Request A Demo Site Will Launch This Month

The majority of small landlords and real estate investors don’t have a clue what their costs are in relation to servicing their tenants. It’s not really their fault because the gurus who got them hyped up on real estate investing didn’t actually share any real information about running their business. So, they end up with [...]

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Continue reading about What Kind Of Self Service Options Do You Give Your Tenants?

If your real estate investments are losing money, you have two options and only two.
You can either sell it, often at a loss or fix the problems causing you to lose money.
The problem many investors face is they don’t have the knowledge, experience or objectivity to decide with path to pursue. Then once a path [...]

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Continue reading about Your Investmenting is Either a Business or It’s an EXPENSIVE Hobby.

Tim Owensby on April 22nd, 2009

At one of our properties in NC we started an experiment at the start of April. All leases include language passing along fees and taxes imposed by local authorities. Things like required annual inspection fees, taxes and even the cost of the business license can be prorated to the tenants with our new lease language. [...]

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Tim Owensby on January 28th, 2009

QuickBooks® is a great option for real estate investors and property managers. However, like any great tool unless it is used correctly it can cause more harm than good.
I have been watching a few topics on the Twitter stream and there are lots of investors using QuickBooks. There is almost no end of exchanges between [...]

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