Fun Fun Fun on Friday! A new real estate investor “social media expert” has surfaced this week. Giving social media advice – get this – via automated postings. Can you get any more clueless? There are right and wrong ways to use social media as real estate investors. I talk about a couple of the basic rules of engagement in this piece. The bottom line though? It’s about ENGAGEMENT, not numbers. Until you understand that…

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One of the most useful tech tools I have run across.

This economy sometimes requires creative solutions to problems. This is one I developed for people that get behind on their rent but that are salvageable.

If you’re doing rental properties right, then you have great units that you’re proud to own and that you never, ever want to sell. But in order to generate ROI, you need to turn your beloved units over to renters that pretty much couldn’t care less about them. So the idea is to take whatever steps we can to mitigate the risk of renting to a “bad” tenant. And the biggest step we can take…

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Ahhhh face time – that wonderful concept undoubtedly invented here in the automotive industry – that says you must be physically in the office. . . for no other reason than because you must be in the office. But when you have a rental property business, “face time” takes on a whole new, and critically important meaning.

Never a dull moment in the Apartment business. Wait until you hear how the latest installation was done.