Starting a Property Management Business

Starting anything is often one of the biggest challenges we face in life. Whether it is starting a new diet or exercise routine or starting a new career. I know, I left the Army in 2000 and wanted to start a new life and career but didn’t know where to turn. My experience in the […]

Published on September 15, 2010 in Business Start Up

Why I Provide Marketing & Legal Forms

When I first started out in property management, I had no marketing materials and one standard management agreement. From my experience, the most time consuming and costly tasks in starting a management business is to develop the marketing and legal forms from scratch. As for the marketing sheets – I wrote the marketing copy myself, then I […]

Published on August 17, 2010 in Business Start Up

Property Management is Financial Independence

The main reason people start a property management business is for the steady, recurring income it provides. Property managers earn a monthly fee to oversee and operate real estate. When business people and business brokers are asked about what makes a great business – the main component is predictable recurring revenue. Residential rent is one expense […]

Published on July 2, 2010 in Business Start Up

Prospects Seek Out Experts

Why would a prospect hire you to manage their property? What makes you better than the next property manager? These are questions that need to be on your mind when starting a property management business. Plus marketing becomes easy when people think of you first as the “property management guru” people will seek you out. […]

Published on June 28, 2010 in Business Start Up

Be Your Own Cinderella Story

I am really enjoying watching Cornell win at the NCAA tournament. As an alum it makes me smile but really because it is a “Cinderella Story.” People are asking how does a school with no scholarship money compete against the other “sports machines,” the favorites? I belive it comes down to the following: 1) get a […]

Published on March 25, 2010 in Business Start Up

New Year’s Plan

I always take time at the end of the year to take stock. What was good, bad, what lessons were learned and how will I improve next year. I also look at my journal and the goals I set for myself for the last year – feel satisfied for reaching many and then ask why i did not reach others. Then I write down […]

Published on December 30, 2009 in Business Start Up

A Journey Starts with a Small Step

At the end of May, I took my wife to river raft and hike the Grand Canyon. The trip was amazing. On the last day of the trip we hiked from the Colorado River (which is not seen from the top) to the South Rim. The hike is 8 miles long, but the toughest part […]

Published on June 24, 2009 in Business Start Up

An End is a New Beginning

When I decided to end my military career in 1999, I took 3 months off to sail, travel and spend time in nature which helped me reflect on how I was going to reinvent myself. At the end of this period I was clear that I did not want to work in corporate America and […]

Published on May 21, 2009 in Business Start Up

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

The expression “don’t reinvent the wheel” is exactly what this program is all about. The time to learn something from scratch through years of trial and error takes TOO long. I have experienced the errors for you so you don’t have to! Included with this program are form letters, marketing materials, legal documents, checklists and […]