Archive for January, 2008

Tenants: How to lose your Section 8 Voucher

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

If you’re new here (and you like what you read), you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!  ScottI had several tenants lose their Minnesota Section 8 voucher in 2007. One tenant had 4 kids with a three bedroom Section 8 voucher and another tenant was a single person […]

Investment Property Rent Collection

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Being a successful investment real estate owner requires being good at and having a system for rent collection. Unfortunately, I often run into investment property owners that are complaining about how their tenants don’t pay or don’t pay on-time. Despite my best encouragement, they still can’t/won’t take a systematic approach and a […]

Bank of America Buys Countrywide

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Bank of America reported Friday that it would buy Countrywide for $4 Billion. This new company would become that largest mortgage company in the US, with almost 25% of all loan under its umbrella, surpassing Wells Fargo. The merger is welcome news for industry watchers as many were worried about the liquidity of […]

BiggerPockets Gets Even Better!

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Joshua Dorkin has once again upped the ante for real estate investing websites with the recent site upgrade of BiggerPockets into a Web 2.0 Social Networking Community. BiggerPockets now boasts a membership of almost 12,000 registered members that network to share their knowledge, make real estate deals, and help each other become successful real […]

Pre-Move Out Cleaning Expectations

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

If you have tenants, you probably have realized that your definition of clean and the tenant’s is probably vastly different! When a tenant would move out, I would often have to go back in and touch up after even “the best” cleaning efforts of the tenant.
I changed my move-out process recently. I decided […]

The Carnival is Coming!

Monday, January 7th, 2008

For those of you that have spent anytime cruising the real estate blogosphere, you may have run across a reference to the “Carnival of Real Estate“. The goal of the Carnival, as it is know in the real estate blogging community, is to:
..bring together the best real estate bloggers from around the […]