No Featured Image

Landlording: Setting Rental Rates For Maximum Cash-Flow

Setting the rental rate of your investment property is as much of an art as it is a science.  As controversial as this topic maybe, it’s often misunderstood from the onset.  Here’s just one BIG angle to consider. I ask that you keep an open mind and understand that the variables are great -keep an… Read more »

No Featured Image

Landlording & It’s Greatest Expense: Slow the Turn!

One will often here my reference to the term:  “Slow the Turn”.   What I’m vaguely referring to is one’s ability to slow the outflow of cash on expenses from a pure business/investment (heck -even personal lifestyle viewpoint too) perspective. As a Landlord,  it is imperative that a real estate investor create an environment for their… Read more »

No Featured Image

Substitution of Collateral: It’s All About the Money

A few years back I had called on a fellow landlord who was known for selling off properties and providing owner financing too.   Now I knew he had problem tenants in a property but also knew the area was appreciating rather rapidly and it was in my main target neighborhood.  I wasn’t sure how long… Read more »

No Featured Image

Do You Really Have What It Takes: Investing 101

I’m often asked by those new and even those (at times) who’ve been trudging along in the investing arena, how wealth is truly created with real estate.  I have a basic saying -one that plays apart in my constant drive:  “If you aren’t out earning it, your spending it”.    The idea of working smartly… Read more »

No Featured Image

Landlording: What Makes a Good Real Estate Investment

The foundation of my real estate investing is rooted in buy and hold investment property for the long term: otherwise, known as Landlording. While I have wholesaled & rehabbed property for short term merchandising of real estate not to mention provided hard money loans to real estate investors in Charlotte, North Carolina, it is my… Read more »

No Featured Image

Initial Thoughts on MultiFamily Investing -Part I

Originally posted by Tyler McCracken on 11/3/2009 on www.askthelandlord.com INiTIAL THOUGHTS ON MULTIFAMILY INVESTING –PART 1 We landlords often classify ourselves as cheap, frugal, thrifty…., to name a few… Truth is we’ve been educated to look for Value. I started my career of Landlording focusing on multi-family housing. I discovered I could get a lower… Read more »