4 reasons why it pays huge dividends to have a Business Plan for your business.
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Tag: Business Operations
Worried in a Winter Wonderland – Snow Removal Risks for Landlords
What can you do if you are buying properties in winter weathered states? You cannot avoid the issue as winter happens and the snow will fly. The best you can do is budget and prepare. Here is a checklist of thoughts we have used in MA to do the best we can during hazardous weather events.
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Create a COVID 19 Protocol for You and Your Team to Follow
Create a COVID19 Protocol for You and Your Team to Follow. Be prepared for the day-to-day engagement with tenants, vendors, contractors, and prospects.
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Case Study: 12 Unit Multi-Family Property Repositioning Project
Why Should You Even Consider Hiring a Property Manager at All? We have been Real Estate Owners and Property Managers going on two decades. We have seen market cycles ebb and flow in that time and have seen peaks of prosperity and valleys of burst bubbles plummeting properties to pennies on the dollar. I would never claim to know it all, but we have seen, been through, and experienced a lot. One afternoon I found myself in the office of […]
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“Coffee, Tea, or Me – ending up feeling not so special”
Looking forward to the BIG day: My youngest son Brian and his wife Stacy were married April 27th, 2019 nestled in the beautiful, rolling, romantic, panoramic hills deep in the heart of wine country, Southern California. It was a day we had anticipated since he was a small boy and it was finally here. Preparations had been made for family to arrive in California to attend the wedding from different parts of the country converging in sunny California to celebrate […]
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“It’s Just a Joint! I am not hurting anyone!” Or so you may think.
The Setting: Once upon a time, in 2016 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission passed the state law for Chapter 334 of the Acts of 2016, The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act legalizing recreational marijuana under certain conditions and situations. Everyone voted it in with a wide margin. But hardly anyone actually read the law to see what it said for what it did and didn’t allow under the statue. In the law, under SECTION 5. “The General Laws” […]
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Top 10 Tips: Guerrilla Tenant Screening Tips for Landlords
A Property Manager’s Field Guide to Successful Tenant Screening Policies & Procedures “Tenant Screening by far has to be the most important responsibility of landlords to avoid ending up in housing court.” – Chief Justice Timothy B. Sullivan It has been said by many landlords and other rental and real estate professionals, much wiser than I, that the primary function of a successful rental business is the process of an effective system to screen for good residents. Having the wrong […]
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