Learning Real Estate Investing: What 11 Pro Investors Wish They’d Known Earlier
Real estate investments are expensive, even if you finance them. That means mistakes are expensive. I already shared some of the real estate investing lessons I wish I’d known when I was just starting out. So I figured I’d open it up to other professional real estate...
How to Increase Rents Without Losing Tenants (PLUS: Free Raise the Rent Letter)
Want a better return on your rental investments? Landlords need to understand how to tactfully and effectively raise rents, without losing their tenants. Turnovers can be costlier than a Kardashian’s wardrobe, so if you want to maximize ROI you need to minimize...
How to Calculate Rental Property Cash Flow: Know Your ROI Before Investing
I cringe every time I hear a new rental investor say “Well the mortgage payment is only $1,000, and the rent is $1,300, so that’s a $300/month cash flow!”Sound the air raid siren, because that investor’s dreams are going to end in flames.How to calculate rental...
Rental Property Deduction Checklist: 20 Tax Deductions for Landlords
The billionaires of the world are not doctors or lawyers, they’re entrepreneurs. Specifically, they are people who started their own businesses, whether those businesses are online, brick and mortar, or real estate empires. Starting and owning a business provides a...
Housing Market Corrections: The Real Estate Investor’s Ultimate Guide to Downturns
Housing markets, like every other market, are cyclical. In our Facebook group for landlords and real estate investors, I hear investors worry all the time: “What happens if there’s a housing market correction? I could lose everything! What do I do?!” For anyone biting...Free Landlord Tools
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The Charming & Witty Founders of Spark Rental
Denise Supplee is a landlord and former property manager, with over a decade's experience in legal forms for landlords and property managers. She's also a champion mom and licensed realtor.
G. Brian Davis is a landlord and real estate investor with 15 rental properties. Husband, rental industry expert and compulsive traveler, Brian visited ten countries last year.
Our goal in building Spark Rental? To help other landlords & property managers automate their rentals like we've done, so they can spend more time with the people and passions they love.