Archive for the ‘Landlord Ideas’ Category

Landlord Max Rental Property Software Eval

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

If you’re new here (and you like what you read), you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!  ScottYou may have read the Carnival of Real Estate where Trevor Mauch reviewed Quicken Rental Property software. Well, Trevor has done it again. Where the Quicken product is for users […]

Can’t Evict if Always Late on Rent!

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

There are many urban legends, rumors, and old wives’ tales surrounding owning investment real estate. Did you hear the one about the landlord not checking on his house for 3 years; when he finally went over there, the tenants had flooded the basement to grow fish to sell at the fish market?
Many of […]

How to the Mow Grass at your Investment Property

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Who mows the grass and shovels the snow at your investment properties? Maybe you do. Eventually you may want to ask one of your tenants to take care of the work. Here are some tips on how to make this a winning situation for you and your tenant:

Find a tenant that takes […]

My $2000 Tenant Screening Mistake-A Happy Ending

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

At the end of October, I wrote a post about how I cut a corner in my tenant screening process and that mistake was probably going to cost me $2000 in lost rent and/or advertising/placement fees. You can read the full article here, but in summary I failed to connect with the prospective tenant’s Section […]

Tenants Witholding Rent until Repairs are Completed

Monday, November 5th, 2007

This is a strategy that some tenants will use to forgo or delay paying rent. Although this is a legal maneuver in the state of Minnesota, the tenant must follow strict guidelines or be subject to eviction. As a landlord, it is good to understand what items the court will be looking for […]

Renting to Celebrities!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Have you ever rented to a celebrity? Maybe your tenant became a celebrity after they moved in. On the blog Landlord Shmandlord, the author writes about phenomenon that can only happen in San Francisco! A guy by the name of Justin started wearing a webcam around on his head 7×24 and streaming […]