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Why using a lease option is a good idea I am starting to feel old ya’ll, and it’s not because I’m about to be 41 years old. Granted, I am in a strange age spot. I often make song, show, and movie references from my childhood that the people a little older than I am may or may not get, but the people younger than I am often have no idea to what I am referring. As a matter of fact, it’s a...
Tracking your rentals This week we have been neck-deep in QuickBooks working on our numbers in our rental company. The reason for this is we are doing a deep dive on our rentals to see how they’re preforming and also updating our actual metrics from 2023 to better forecast what we need to do for 2024. Now, if you are unfamiliar with the word “metrics” as it applies to rentals, all that...
A Landlords Tale ‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Now you know that’s not true, cause children of four have we, And there’s nary a moment of silence, especially in the evening. At 8 o’clock my daughter was baking cookies for the next day’s feast, And the two littles were roaming the halls making sounds of some...
The way you lie I don’t know if you are country music fans are not but I like listening to it from time to time — especially if it’s from the 90’s era. But there’s a song from the Band Perry titled “You Lie.” The chorus is great and it goes something like this: ‘You lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor. You lie like a coon dog basking in the sunshine on my porch. You lie...
In-home interviews are powerful Paper applications can tell you a lot about a rental applicant. But landlording is a people business. And just using an application falls short on giving you a total picture of what kind of person your applicants is. Check out this video as we talk about the strategy we use that we believe helps us choose high quality tenant every time, and make sure we...