Archive for income properties

Property Management Software Reviews – In-Depth Unbiased Reviews

Over the past couple months we have had a ton of questions from readers about property management software . So, we started doing unbiased written and video (yep, both!) reviews of property management software packages so you know which software is right for YOU and YOUR BUSINESS. Some investors have 1 or 2 units and [...]

Real Estate Investing De-Motivation… A readers landlord story…

I tell you what. 2008 has been huge for our little real estate investing website over here. Traffic is doubling almost every month Readers are emailing me every single day with questions and comments Our website redesign demo will be ready by this weekend We have a ton of awesome resources in the works for [...]

Real Tools Property Management Software – In depth review…

Okay, here we are again with another property management software review. As you know, this whole series was spurred on by a few readers who emailed me asking about property management software for their own real estate investing businesses. This is our 5th review in the series. Up to this point we’ve reviewed: Quicken Rental [...]

Landlord Max Property Rental Management Software Review

Hey, I hope 2008 is going great so far! This year should be a great year to buy up a bunch of property below market value. That’s my goal this year! Anyhow… Last week we reviewed Quicken Rental Property Management 2.5 (we have a new Quicken Rental Property Manager 2010 review up now) software for [...]

Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.5 In-depth Review

**IMPORTANT UPDATE: 6/2010: You may or may not know… but Quicken just launched their NEW version Quicken Rental Property Manager, called Quicken Rental Property Manager 2010 .  So, version 2.5 is now out of date.  We just finished up the review for Quicken Rental Property Manager 2009 … so click that link to head over [...]

Free Eviction Form – Eviction Letter to The Tenant

We’re always out to give away free real estate investing forms and other stuff… Over here at The REI Brain we are out to "move the FREE line". What does that mean? Simple. We give away a ton of very valuable real estate investing, life success, and business building stuff that real investors use everyday… [...]

The real way to build wealth in real estate investing…

For the past 4 or 5 years everyone has been jumping on the “flipping” and rehabbing bandwagon because of the late night infomercials. “I made $45,000 on this flip that took me 3 weeks with no money of my own!” “In just 90 days I found and wholesaled this 23 unit building for a $93,000 [...]

Building a Team: A must for rental property owners – Part 1

One thing I learned the hard way (a few times) that I am just now getting the hang of is the importance of building a solid team when owning investment rental properties.  Let me ask you a question or two first… Do you own a rental property? Do you do all of the work, maintenance, [...]

Quick 30 second lesson for all of you landlords out there…

If you are a landlord, income property owner… whatever you want to call yourself… here’s a little tip that I hope you are following right now. I just filled one of my vacancies last week .  I’ve only had a total of about 7 days of vacancy in all of my properties over the past [...]

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