Social Media Changes the Rental Game

Like it or not, social media is here to stay. And, as we reported in a previous post, it’s changing the way real estate business is conducted. Social media can help income property investors manage properties, network and even find new tenants – but these useful tools...

Is Retirement Dead? The Rise of the Encore Career

The “American Dream” of retirement – hang up the working clothes at 65 and hit the golf course – is becoming an impossible dream for many Americans who keep on working because they can’t afford to retire. But still others are choosing to delay or skip retirement...

5 Traits of Successful Investors

Do you have what it takes to be a successful investor? There’s no shortage of guides attempting to define those key characteristics and behaviors that separate successful investors – those who build the financial future of their dreams – from those who never quite get...

JP Morgan Chase Faces Criminal and Civil Investigations

It’s been nearly five years since the housing market suffered its catastrophic collapse, and new mortgage fraud charges are still being filed against the big banks responsible for most of the disastrous subprime mortgages and the widespread foreclosure abuses that...

Make Leases Work for You

A good lease or rental agreement is a landlord/investor’s friend. But although property owners invest time and resources in getting properties ready for occupancy and screening tenants carefully, when the time comes to seal the deal, they resort to a lease agreement...