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    The Landlord Learning Curve: 50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management & Boost Your Rental Property Profits
    The Landlord Learning Curve: 50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management & Boost Your Rental Property Profits
    The Landlord Learning Curve: 50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management & Boost Your Rental Property Profits
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    The Landlord Learning Curve: 50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management & Boost Your Rental Property Profits

    By Tara Benson

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    Would you prefer to be a broke landlord or a wealthy landlord?

    Whether you are just considering investing in rental properties, are new to real estate investing, or have been a landlord for many years The Landlord Learning Curve: 50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management & Boost Your Rental Property Profits is the shortcut to learning how to increase rental income and secure great tenants. These methods are based on real life experience and actual practice, not textbooks that teach theories that don’t work in the real world.

    There is more to becoming a successful, wealthy, financially free landlord and entrepreneur than buying a house and sticking a for rent sign in the yard. With information that ranges from real estate law to rental property management to saving money on rental renovations, every tip could mean thousands of dollars in your pocket. This book will show you the simple but effective ways to reach your real estate investing goals through efficient property management, rental maintenance, and tenant retention.

    You will learn to:
    •Create rentals that tenants will want to live in year after year.
    •Protect your rental property investment from lawsuits and tenant complaints.
    •Increase rental income with extras tenants are happy to pay for.
    •Save money on renovations and repairs to your rental property.
    •Make property management easier while decreasing conflicts with tenants.
    •Become the real estate entrepreneur you have always wanted to be.

    Put your fears of real estate investment aside, your life as a landlord does not have to be 2 a.m. calls, missing your children’s birthday parties, or fights with your spouse. Landlording isn’t always easy but whether you are interested in apartment rentals, college housing, or single family rental property, you can minimize the number of interruptions to your life by using the rental property management tips provided.

    Rental property investing can be a very rewarding experience in any housing market. There are many reasons to become an entrepreneur and investor, such as month to month cash flow, equity down the line that can be used to pay for a child’s education or wedding, and a comfortable retirement for yourself and your spouse. There is no need to be intimidated, famous real estate investors Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki had to start somewhere and so do you. As a real estate investor, you can start ahead of the game, knowing what most landlords learn only after years of mistakes and missteps.

    As a real estate agent and rental property investor, the author has compiled the most meaningful and effective ideas about rental property management and real estate investment learned through real life situations in an effort to help other rental housing investors make more money and have more time for family. Written in an easy to digest format, you will be implementing the tips immediately and referencing the information for years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTara Benson
    Release dateMar 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301641260
    The Landlord Learning Curve: 50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management & Boost Your Rental Property Profits
    Author

    Tara Benson

    Tara Benson is a very successful Real Estate Agent and Investor. She owns many rental properties and also renovates properties for resale. Her resume is unique and her varied experience has given her many tools to be successful in real estate. She has been a Military Police Officer in the U.S. Army, worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center, taught American History at the University level, and has been a private investigator.

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      Short but with many helpful pieces of advice. For a simple introduction to the topic its ok. Would be better with some actual examples of tenant agreements etc.

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    The Landlord Learning Curve - Tara Benson

    The Landlord Learning Curve:

    50 Easy Ways to Improve Your Property Management

    & Boost Your Rental Property Profits

    By Tara Benson

    Text copyright © 2012 Tara Benson

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Update Your Apartments

    Buy Properties in Good School Districts

    Take Good Pictures/Video

    Security

    Dishwashers

    Advertise Vacancies On The Cheap

    And 44 More…

    About the Author

    Other Titles By Tara Benson

    Introduction

    Being a landlord can be a complicated endeavor that has the potential to make an investor very rich or very poor. You want to be the kind that gets rich; this book will show you how. Ask any experienced landlord and they can tell you many stories of mistakes they made along the way that cost them thousands of dollars. Most landlords get to the top of their game after years and years of experience.

    My intention is to shorten that learning curve and get you to the top of your game now. The information that will follow is invaluable and many seasoned investors may not be happy I am sharing it; they think you should learn the hard way like they did. I don’t. We all know the saying work smarter, not harder and the information contained here will make you much, much smarter. The tips, tricks, and secrets that will follow will save you years of headaches, gray hairs, fights with your spouse, tenant complaints, lawsuits, and best reason of all they will put more money in your pocket by improving the quality of your tenant, the quality of your apartments, create a smooth running operation, and keep your apartments fully occupied.

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