Navigating Property Repairs: Essential vs. Minor Fixes

The chapter focuses on how to effectively prioritize repairs in real estate, differentiating between critical fixes and less urgent ones. The speakers highlight the importance of understanding motivations to alleviate anxiety when managing property inspections.

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Property management is a crucial part of your real estate investing business. They make repairs, take tenant calls, and most importantly, collect rent. But what happens when your property manager stops contacting you, forgets to send signed leases, and doesn’t send you your rent checks? When is it time to start worrying and how do you go about asking a property manager for your money back?

Welcome back to Seeing Greene, where your expert investor, agent, lender, and podcast host, David Greene, answers some of the most commonly asked real estate investing questions. In this episode, we take both video and written submissions and throw them at Dave to get his time-tested take. You’ll hear questions like, whether to pursue a business or buy rental properties, when to sell an investment property to reinvest profits, how to look for joint venture partners, and what to do when you’re concerned about your property manager’s performance.

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In This Episode We Cover:

When to start a business or buy a rental property (and how to do both)

Why ROE (return on equity) beats ROI (return on investment) in 2022

What to ask a potential partner to see if they’re a good fit for a joint venture deal

How to score lower interest rates on mortgages as a self-employed investor

When and which rental property repairs to prioritize after a home inspection

What to do when you suspect a property manager may be skimming off the top

And So Much More!

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