Late last year my the rental management business was in total disarray. It was chaos! We lost telephone numbers. We lost track of work orders because we didn’t have a work order system. Basically, we had an information nightmare. Finally one day I’d had enough. I started researching on-line [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 21, 2010
Today I got a question from one of my clients who had a property in which the client in which her renter moved out of her property without paying the rent. In addition, her tenant left a whole bunch of stuff in the house. The question she had for me was what she [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 20, 2010
I recently went to the clinic for some treatment. When I got to the front desk, I couldn’t believe how rude the girls were behind the desk. They acted as if I didn’t even exist. When they were finally finished talking, one of them came over and asked me what I wanted. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Bigger Pockets (www.biggerpockets.com) has one of the best forums on the internet for real estate investors. According to their figures, they currently have almost 50,000 members. One of the recent threads, “The Top Five Landlord Mistakes”, generated a lively discussion (http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/23212-the-top-5-landlord-mistakes?page=1). There are some really good “top mistakes” listed in these posts. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Question: “This gentelmen has sent me a couple of e-mails. I am sending it to you to get your opinion. It just gives me a funny feeling. This is about the house we will have to rent here soon. My wife posted the house for rent on craigs list.” Here is the email he got [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 24, 2008
This morning my office got the dreaded call that you never want to get that there is a fire at one of our rental properties, and they have just called the fire department. Preliminary indications were that no one was hurt. That’s good. This particular property, which is a duplex, is one that our office managed for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
Special Judge Glenn Jones is best known to me for the tight ship he runs during the Forcible Entry and Detainer (FED) docket (eviction court) at the Oklahoma County Court house. Of the judges who preside over the FED docket, Judge Jones is certainly high on my list as a judge who treats both sides with [...]
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
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