You buy income properties at least partially for the income. Your property management choices can have a dramatic effect on whether you actually HAVE any income left after expenses. Is this something you can do yourself? Do you need to hire outside management? If so, when?
We will talk about:
Why most people have a bad experience when they rent out a house.
How to recover from that bad experience.
The basics of property management
The rules.
Marketing for tenants
Managing tenants
Getting rid of bad tenants
Creating long-term tenant relationships
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Topic: Property Management, Matthew and Christopher
Some questions to get us started:
- Most of us buy our first rental house and attempt to manage it ourselves. What are some of the most important things we need to know if we plan to self-manage?
- What are some of the biggest pitfalls for landlords self-managing?
- If we only have a few rentals and self-manage, do we really need to know all the regulations about fair housing rules and so forth or are we exempt?
- Where can we go to learn the housing rules to make sure we are in compliance?
- What are some ways I can find good tenants for my properties?
- How do I appropriately and legally vet tenant applicants?
- How can I learn whether a prospective tenant has been evicted?
- You can’t fully control people - what is the craziest thing you’ve seen a tenant do (that you are allowed to talk about)
- Where can the average person get a good lease to use?
- What some typical problems tenants have and some ways to prevent them?
- How do you draw the line between normal wear and tear and reason to retain security deposit?
- At what point does it make sense to hire a management company?
- Just in case I have a property in a city where you are not located :) what criteria should i use in selecting a property management company?
- When vetting a management company, what are some red flags?
- What does the rest of this year look like for rental property demand?
- How has managing rentals impacted your view of humanity in general?
- What are your top 3 pointers for landlords or potential landlords?
Motivational Thoughts for the day
“Adversity causes some to break. It causes others to break records.” William Arthur Ward
