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Determining a reasonable rent amount takes an understanding of the market and property knowledge. Should you choose median or average rent?

Avoid these 3 FATAL landlord mistakes when charging rents to keep your rental business profitable and thriving.

Property management can be a rewarding business when you decide on the right mix of property you should manage to earn and diversify risk.

When you’re a beginning real estate investor, questions abound. Property types? Financing? Use these 5 tips to succeed in real estate.

There are various methods landlords and property managers use to handle rent collection and ensure stable cash flow. What systems should you put in place to make sure your tenants pay rent on time? Here are 5 tried-and-true strategies landlords and property managers use to ensure rents get paid on time.

Most part-time landlords work a full-time job and manage their rental property on the side. If you're fortunate, you can balance these responsibilities most of the time. As you acquire more properties, however, that balance becomes harder to maintain. Here are 7 steps to help you move from a part-time to a full-time landlord.

There are a lot of things to think about when preparing to buy your investment property. Several financial factors related to real estate investment should not be ignored. Here are the financial preparations you should take before investing in real estate.

As you get started in real estate investing, you’ll hear a lot about the importance of reinvesting cash flow back into your business. This can mean different things to different investors. If you intend to retire with enough income to maintain a specific lifestyle, you may want to consider reinvesting cash flow back into real estate.

Real estate investing has always been about being in the right position to make the most of the shifts in supply and demand. Every investor has a different set of factors to identify an ideal investment, but location always plays a significant role. Here’s how to identify a growing market or neighborhood for your real estate investment.

Do you want to increase your property management company’s exposure and generate more leads? As a property management company, you can use YouTube to increase your exposure to landlords and tenants. Let’s take a look at 6 of the best YouTube video ideas for your property management company.

Now in October 2020, we are not out of the woods. Many real estate investors feel a pinch as tenants have not paid many for a few months. With all evictions being frozen, the fallout of restaurants and businesses running at 50% or less capacity has yet to be seen, causing everyone in the real estate industry to ask, "When is the real estate market going to take a hit?"

Effective tenant screening is a crucial part of the process, and one piece of that screening pie is the references you get from a tenant’s previous landlords. Here are 12 questions you should be asking previous landlords.

Real estate is, however, largely resilient; if you purchased a property to cash flow, you could very well weather a few bad economic quarters and withstand lower earnings, at least for a while. Here are 4 factors to help you determine if fall is a good time to purchase a rental property.

This is one of the many great debates among real estate investors, "Should I buy or build a new rental property," or "Should I buy an older property and potentially renovate?" Let's dig into the pros and cons of each property type and whether the property age matters for real estate investing? Find out if the age of a property matters for real estate investing.

A property manager needs to anticipate how to deal with unforeseen circumstances and shut down any similar future problems in the future. This is where addenda come into play. Here are a few lists of must-have addenda to include with your lease agreements.

Real estate is a roller coaster of emotions. In many larger cities and markets, it is very competitive. Rentometer will help review accurate rent estimations before buying.

Real estate investors all over the nation know that certain types of rental properties outperform others. Each type has its own set of risks, but a manageable long-term tenant can offset much standard risk in almost any situation. Rental properties in college towns represent the middle ground between the best and worst real estate investing options.

Being a landlord comes with lots of perks. But at the same time, the job can prove to be tough. This is especially true when you find yourself facing a tenant who has stopped paying rent or asking to break their lease early.