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Evaluating Your Property Manager
Some property managers are excellent, while others leave much to be desired. Just like an employee, you need to understand what your property management company is doing to help you succeed with your investments.
Is Investing in Portland, Maine Safe?
What should you be aware of when investing in Portland, Maine real estate? Read more to find out…
Is Investing in Chicago, Illinois Safe?
What’s the difference between investing in Chicago versus Detroit? Let’s discuss if it’s safe to invest in Chicago, Illinois real estate…
Is Investing in Jersey City, New Jersey Safe?
Is it safe to invest in Jersey City? Read this article to find out about population growth, real estate markets, the neighborhood to watch, and more…
Is It Safe to Invest in Detroit, Michigan?
Is investing in Detroit, Michigan worth it for real estate investors?
In our current economic scenario is investing in real estate still a safe thing to do?
Real estate investing in the United States is still attractive, but you have to understand each marketplace, they are all rather individualistic. Stay tuned for examples by city…
Employee Bonus Ideas for Property Managers
Incentives synchronize employees with business goals. Let’s discuss some of the most effective ways to align business owners, their employees, and property owners.
Phantom Stock: One Way to Keep an Essential Employee
How to keep a key employee when direct ownership is not advisable...
Do you have time to lead your sales team
To lead effectively takes planning. To be successful in business you have to dream big and implement. Learn how to allocate time in your busy schedule to grow your business.
How property taxes are adjusted when property sells for more than the property is assessed for on a state by state basis
The mechanism for adjusting property taxes varies dramatically across the 50 states. This article summarizes five current tax approaches that you should be aware of as part of your due diligence when you’re buying a property.
You have made the decision to sell your company, now what?
What do you do when you want to sell your company?
Recruiting commercial real estate brokers is not easy for the managing director of a commercial brokerage.
Here are some ideas that might help you grow your commercial real estate team…
Why Hiring Experienced Salespeople Doesn’t Guarantee Success
When hiring real estate brokers, take the time to do your due diligence confirming skills and ability to generate transactions and close them. You want to make sure they have a significant ”rolodex,” because without local relationships, a broker cannot succeed.
Is your company adrift – do you need help planning your growth?
When your business is struggling, sometimes all you need is new ideas. Read this post to see an example of a company going from adrift to growth…
What to do when a family inherits real estate and they don’t get along
You don’t want the family to blow up in the process of deciding the real estate inheritance issues when the family doesn’t get along…
Why your annual LLC meeting is a critical part of your real estate investment strategy
This article is a reminder why annual meetings and documentation of these meetings is critical to protect your LLC (corporate) standing.
How to encourage Property management employees to stay with you for a long time.
Why is employee turnover so high? From burnout to compensation and beyond, let’s discuss how to identify and fix employee retention issues in property management…
Hiring staff – will AI help you do it?
Part of the initial employee screening and onboarding is to make sure new employees fit into your company culture, and AI might be able to help you screen better to ensure a better employee fit.
End of Summer: Planning for a Successful 2025
Are you ready for the end of the summer? It’s time to prepare for achieving your end of year goals.
Tax impacts for Real Estate Investors from the recently signed H.R 1 – One Big Beautiful Bill
Are changes to tax laws good or bad for real estate? Let’s discuss the impacts…
Successful Real Estate Investing: Invest Wisely, Avoid Costly Mistakes and Make Money
This book by Cliff Hockley, is a guide that includes everything one needs to know about investing in real estate. Successful Real Estate Investing was written to help investors of any experience level.
Real estate investing is a common conversation topic for good reason as it can be very lucrative when done correctly. However, many investors have lost thousands or even millions of dollars on devastating mistakes that could have been avoided. Cliff Hockley, a property management and commercial brokerage expert, wrote Successful Real Estate Investing to help people avoid these mistakes and make as much money as possible from their real estate investments.
Experience is a very effective teacher, and therefore Successful Real Estate Investing allows investors to learn from others’ experiences. Successful Real Estate contains thirty- four stories of different real estate investors, emphasizing exactly where these people went wrong, or what they did correctly. These stories include a wide variety of investors and investment types to offer knowledge that is applicable for any investor.
Successful Real Estate Investing: Invest Wisely, Avoid Costly Mistakes and Make Money was released by Morgan James Publishing on May 21, 2019. It is widely available on the internet in paperback and e-reader and kindle format.