Landlords, when is the last time you read your standard lease from start to finish? Should I dare say that some of you have never read it? Your lease is your contract with tenant. Why are you just coasting along with any old lease?

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To be successful at flipping houses, there is a considerable amount of prep work that you need to complete before you ever begin to make offers on houses. You should be able to answer the following questions with confidence.

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Property value rises and falls but if you're a property investment entrepeneur building a property portfolio then your investment property value is important for different reasons. Knowing how to value your investment property whether it was bought for buy to let purposes or for refurbishment and re-sale at a property auction

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Who do you call when you are on the beach in Acapulco and the water heater at your investment property dies? Or more importantly, who do your tenants call when the water heater dies and you are out of cell phone range? Do you have a plan?

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Many people buy investment property not really knowing how much they should be making in cash flow per month. Unfortunately, single family houses are the most difficult to try and increase your monthly cash flow. Scott Ficek gives us 7 different ways to either increase your income or decrease your expenses on your Minnesota I

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Obviously this can only be done when the lease renews, but how do you decide when and how much to raise the rent on your tenants? As you imagine, that can be a touchy subject. I think raising the rent depends upon a couple items. Every landlord faces this situation. Here are some tips and tricks to getting the rent increase

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When I read Steve's post at The Property Pundit, I couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. When he takes applications for his apartments, he searches the Internet to see if the prospective tenant have an on-line identity. In one case he came across a prospect that was advertising her erotic services on Craig's List! Oh boy!

Probably th

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Time to get your investment properties ready for the winter. Every year I say I am going to do it earlier in the fall and I end up waiting until November (and do it when it is an emergency). Why not tackle those projects and prep items when the we

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Buying investment property in the UK is probably the best thing that you can do if you want to make money in a safe real estate market. Property in London is still fetching a good price despite the slowdown in property prices. The rest of the UK you can find property for sale at below market value. As a property investment prof

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London property auctions are a good place to find below market value investment properties in one of the hottest and expensive property investment markets in the world. There are several property auctions taking place in London during the month of March and several feature repossessed houses and flats sold by banks and building

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In any business you will find partnerships. Sometimes they are built originally from friendships, sometimes they are between complete strangers. Regardless of their origin, partnerships can create a huge synergy by drawing on each of the partners strengths and bolstering their weaknesses. Conversely, I have seen some miserable

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Just like many industries, Real Estate requires specialization. Because the markets and property types are so broad, it is difficult to be an expert at all areas. Plus, if you are looking to spend your hard earned savings on an investment property, wouldn't you want an expert/specialist? Here are 7 questions that every real

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Whenever anyone asks me how the market is going these days I tell them it is smoking hot. Then I always say the same thing: “If you have money, now is the time to spend it”. Are you waiting for your Internet stocks to rebound before buying property? Do you think those government bonds are going to bring you extraordinary gains?

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In my post “I Know You Have Questions”, I asked the readers of my site to send me questions or topics that they are just dying to ask or are confronted with often. John Gall asked: “If you could purchase only one property would you choose a 4 bedroom and skip 3 bedrooms or consider all looking for the best deal with the best cash flow or over

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While I rarely see a tenant that has a great credit report, the tenants that have problems paying their rent on-time (or ever) have typically shown a history of financial and/or rental problems on their background checks. The ones that have several items in collections especially seem to have issues with rent. I guess paying la

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This week's Carnival of Real Estate #74 was held at Minnesota Investment Property blog. Many great posts were submitted, but only 11 were chosen. I spent the last couple cold days over the warm glow of my laptop reading all the fantastic submissions. Considering it is currently 11 below zero outside as I write this, I thought it might be f

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