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Turnkey Real Estate Investing

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Crucial Questions New Investors MUST Ask a Property Management Company

By Chris Clothier on Tue, Feb 20, 2024

Knowing who to partner with as a new real estate investor isn’t easy. As an owner-investor, due diligence rests on your shoulders from the beginning. To be a passive investor, you must first find the right property management company. The quality and integrity of their business will guide your success.

Now, there are many elements to vetting a management company – looking at their public information, reviewing their quarterly and annual reports, and soliciting reviews from other investors. But perhaps the most critical step for a new investor is asking questions.

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The Pros & Cons of a Home Warranty for Investment Properties

By Chris Clothier on Tue, Nov 1, 2022

If you’re like most other investors — especially those managing properties out of state — you might have given some thought to getting a home warranty. These warranties help cover the costs of repairs and replacements in your rental properties, which means you can end up saving on maintenance costs and maximize your net income.

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Resident Longevity is Key to Peak Rental Property Performance

By Chris Clothier on Wed, May 25, 2022

If you’re reading this, you’re either interested in or already investing in buy-and-hold rental properties. You’re in this thing for the long haul.

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Use a Renter's Mindset to Excel in Property Management

By Chris Clothier on Tue, May 10, 2022

The customer experience is often overlooked in business simply because it's difficult to quantify. With that said, it’s no less a vital part to your success as a real estate investor. Rental vacancies are extremely costly and the way you maximize your property’s income-earning potential is by minimizing turnover as much as possible.

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U.S. Rent Prices Rise as Homebuying Market Steadies

By Chris Clothier on Wed, Jul 21, 2021

Although COVID-19 still poses a threat to public health, vaccination rates and the lifting of mask mandates have given American life a renewed sense of normalcy.

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Real Estate Management that Makes Tenants (And Investors) Happy

By Chris Clothier on Thu, Nov 21, 2013

Landlords have something of a bad reputation. In movies and television, we rarely see the landlord as anything but an antagonist. They’re portrayed as greasy cigar-chomping sociopaths in the real estate biz for a quick buck. Essentially, we are portrayed as less of the long-term investor that the landlord has evolved into and more of the slumlord that is easy to despise!  Who cares if the tenants are happy? Who cares if the maintenance requests go unanswered for a while and when we do answer it’s with the cheapest and most incompetent people possible?  That is the perception and those are the questions most equate with the mind of landlords.

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Premier Property Management Group: Update January - October

By Chris Clothier on Fri, Nov 1, 2013

The numbers in the graphs below represent Premier Property Management Group as it stood on the last day of October and how we have performed year-to-date 2013.  An important part of each of these updates is an awareness by Memphis Invest, GP to monitor our growth and performance and to remind all of our readers that there is nothing typical about real estate investment.  The number we report are not to show how an investment will perform or what rate of return an investor will achieve if they purchase property from us.  

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Can You Manage Your Own Cash Flow Real Estate?

By Chris Clothier on Tue, May 22, 2012

Whether you are new to considering income properties for sale or you are a more seasoned real estate investor, the question remains: can you manage your property or properties by yourself, or should you bring in a professional property management company? There are many different factors to consider when you are figuring out whether to DIY property management for your cash flow real estate or whether to call in the pros. Here are some questions to get you started:

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