Category Archives: Managing

Articles on managing a single family rent house. Operating a rental home business.

The Rental Business: Rejecting an Application

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Bernie

Well, I could have named this post “Communicating the results after processing the application”, which would have been both accurate and less shocking, but we all know how to communicate good news, so there’s not much teaching required for that. … Continue reading →

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The Rental Business: Processing a Lease Application

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Bernie

In the last post we talked about showing your house and collecting the application. Now, we’ll talk about how to process the application. After you have arrived at your qualification criteria for your tenants,  create an “Application Instructions” document and … Continue reading →

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The Rental Business: Showing the Property – Safety Tips

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Bernie

Now that you have pre-qualified your prospective tenants, it is time to show them the house. Before you show them the house, you should have completed the steps discussed in the previous post. Here’s a quick recap: Pre-qualify them by … Continue reading →

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The Rental Business: Talking To Prospective Tenants

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Bernie

Now that you have your tenant qualification criteria established, you are ready to answer calls from prospective tenants. If you have prepared your property as we have talked about on these blogs and if you are priced below market as … Continue reading →

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The Rental Business: Tenant Qualifications

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Bernie

In the last post we talked about how to arrive at a rent amount for your property. Before we talk about answering calls from prospective tenants, lets talk about what qualifications you are looking for in a your tenant. Once … Continue reading →

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The Rental Business: Pricing Your Rental

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Bernie

The next topic in this series on the business of owning and operating rental homes is pricing the rental. We have discussed how to purchase and prepare the property and bring it to market in earlier blogs. If you are … Continue reading →

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Finding Good Contractors and Vendors

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Bernie

I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I will get into the details of finding and keeping good contractors and vendors. This post is about that. If you follow my articles you must realize that I place … Continue reading →

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The Members of Your Team

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Bernie

Real estate investing is a team sport. You cannot go far sitting in front of your computer and clicking. You have to deal with people. Your first team member is of course your mentor. If you have not read the … Continue reading →

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