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Howdy, landlord! Get on the right side of the law with DummiesLandlord's Legal Kit For Dummies contains all the resources landlords need to unpack the legal side of renting properties. Inside you'll find worksheets, templates, and friendly explanations that will help you find success. Once you have your property and your tenants, you'll need to make sure you operate within your rights, complete all the necessary admin, and handle taxes in an accurate and timely way.
Before you put that FOR RENT sign in the yard, read this Hello there, future landlord. You’ve found what you’re looking for—a complete package of information and resources to teach you what you need to know and make your life (and your tenants’ lives) easier. With Property Management Kit For Dummies, you can learn how to manage single-family homes, large apartment buildings, treehouses, dollhouses… okay, there’s not much info here on managing dollhouses, but everything else is definitely covered.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
Some real estate sales approaches involve a shorter contact-to-contract cycle than others, therefore delivering a greater return on your time investment and a higher value for your business. In order, here are the factors that most influence the value of your prospecting approaches. Past clients:The highest-value form of prospecting is calling past clients and those in your direct sphere of influence.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
A service encounter happens any time a consumer interacts with a servicing organization. Every website hit or incoming ad or sign call is a service encounter. When a prospect talks to you, your staff, your company receptionist, your closing coordinator, or your broker, owner, lender, escrow or title attorney, or anyone on your service team, that person is having a service encounter.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
Help sellers achieve the lightest, brightest, and largest interior possible by taking the following advice to heart. To help sellers prepare their home interiors for showing, have them take two initial steps: Get them to rent a drop box or dumpster and throw away or donate anything they haven't used in a while.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
As a new real estate agent, the first, second, and third place to invest your marketing dollars is online. The two main issues you face with the Internet are quality and quantity. You want to drive visitors to your site so you can increase the odds of generating leads from it.You also want to increase the quality of the prospects so you can separate the really good buyers and sellers from all the rest.
Article / Updated 08-22-2017
Current clients are people you're actively representing, right now, in real estate transactions. Current clients are a rich pool of referral opportunity mainly because, more than any other group, they have real estate on their minds.They're in the midst of deals that they're constantly talking about with their friends, associates, family members, and neighbors.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
The success of a listing presentation is determined by what you do before you even walk through the door. Most real estate agents enter the meeting flying blind, ill prepared and oblivious to the needs, wants, desires, and expectations of the prospect. Make this pledge to yourself right now: Before you enter another listing presentation, ask your prospects quality questions in advance.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
A successful open house requires a well-chosen and presentable home, a well-organized host, and an impeccable follow-up plan so that no prospect gets lost in the post-event period. Use the following information to guide your planning. In addition, you may want to use the worksheet featured here to be sure that you cover all the planning bases and arrive ready to open the doors to a successful event.
Article / Updated 07-03-2017
As a real estate agent, one of the best ways to start generating referrals is to construct a referral database composed of all the people who are likely to help you by referring your services.Most referrals come from family members, friends, current clients, past clients, people you've met through networking situations, and people you know through social or business dealings.