by Guest Author | Last updated Dec 28, 2023 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
Want a profitable rental property, as a landlord? You can (and should) take all the standard steps to protect your investment from bad tenants. After collecting rental application forms, you run tenant screening reports, check the tenant’s previous rental...
by Guest Author | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
People often look to the millennial generation for an idea of where markets will trend. And with good reason — this is the largest generation since the baby boomers, and is expected to overtake the number of baby boomers in 2019 when trends hit 73 million millennials...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
“When I was your age, we actually had this thing called privacy!” Is privacy dead? Long live privacy? I’ll let the politicians and data pirates debate that point, but here’s what I do know: landlords and real estate investors are juicy targets for lawsuits, so they...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
What’s the #1 profit killer for landlords? You guessed it – tenant turnovers. Between repairs and property upgrades (new paint, new carpeting, etc.), vacancy costs, advertising costs, time spent showing the property, and of course fixing any serious damage...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Dec 29, 2023 | Active Real Estate Investing, Property Management, Real Estate News, Spark Blog |
As a real estate investor, you’ve probably wondered “What happens if housing markets collapse?” It’s one of the biggest fears and questions we hear from our passive income students. One answer is that it’s uncommon for real estate values to go down – it happens...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance, Property Management, Spark Blog |
Being a parent is endless work. And if entrepreneurship also requires endless work, then what is infinity multiplied by infinity? Then double the responsibilities again, for a single mom. And, stay with me here, imagine that our heroine also invests in real...