What to Expect when Self Managing Rentals
What your Rental Needs from You Self managing your rentals instead of using a property manager has some advantages. You save on the management costs, you are personally invested in your investment, to …
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How to Set Up a Rental Screening and Showing Schedule
Rental Screening and Showing Schedule Once you’re ready to rent your unit you need to have a way to keep track of possible tenants’ information and set up a showing schedule. We didn’t …
3 Steps to Finding Great Renters
How to Find the Perfect Renters for your Unit You’ve put an incredible amount of time, money and effort into creating your rental unit so it’s desirable to renters. You want reliable, respectful …
Guide to Deciding on Rental Renovations
As we’ve shared, our real estate investment strategy focuses on updating houses and adding basement suites. This increases the value and equity in our homes (which can be leveraged) as well as creates …
Renovation Stress: How the Worst Case Scenario is the BEST Thing to Think About
Renovation stress and the what-ifs it brings Renovation stress often stems from the worry about what might go wrong. Like other times in our life when we undertake something new or a big …
Build Your Own Real Estate Empire
We realize for many it is hard to believe they will ever own a home, never mind more than one! Especially if you live in an expensive real estate market like …
9 Weird Ways to Save Money
A lot of us are trying to save money, especially if we’re saving up to buy another investment property! Obviously, big changes make a big difference. But at some point, you run out …
5 Ways to Save Money on your Backyard Projects
As mentioned in our 2018 Backyard Makeover Update, we are trying to keep costs low for our backyard projects. Well, we cut our costs and have saved over $2000 so far this summer! …
Part 3: The (Eventual) Value of DIY Renovations
The (Eventual) Value of DIY is the third and final post in our 3-part series about do-it-yourself (DIY) renovation assumptions. The first 2 posts tackled assumptions about time and money. This post considers the assumption DIY …
Part 2: The Surprising Hidden Cost of DIY Renovations
The Surprising Hidden Cost of DIY is the second post in our 3-part series about do-it-yourself (DIY) renovations. Get caught up on Part 1: The DIY Expense That No One is Talking About. …