Required Roof Maintenance for Fixer Upper Houses
One of the jobs associated with operating a fixer upper and rental house business is to keep your rental properties in ship shape! With the annual approach of summer rains, now is almost the last...
View ArticleWindow Repair with #2 Son
. Last Saturday I took my 10-year-old son along with me to repair a window in one of our rental houses. I like to take one of my boys along so they can learn a thing or two about how to repair things,...
View ArticleAdd “Start a Rental House Business” to Your Bucket List
Taking a break from my regular fixer upper rental house blogging, today I am going to comment on some favorite blog articles that I have recently read. Fearless Men While I agree with Fearless Men’s...
View ArticleSome perfectly legal ways to maximize your rental profits
In the fixer upper and rental house business there are many perfectly legal ways to maximize your rental profits, which don’t require drawing a gun or subtly displaying the threatening DVD cover of The...
View ArticleWhat to do when your property won’t sell
There are times when even those of us who are using the “fixer upper and rental house” strategy need to sell a house, despite at one point having sworn that we wouldn’t sell an investment house till...
View ArticleDreams Still Come True
“Dreams come true: without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” — John Updike One of my favorite blog authors is Lynne Spreen at Any Shiny Thing. Her article “Our Dreams Persist”...
View Article5 Steps to Get Your House Ready to Rent by Terry Sprouse
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller If you are following my suggestion and turning your old home into a rental house, or if you are just purchasing an investment fixer upper...
View ArticleDreams, Investment Houses and Creating Books
Sigmund Freud said, “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. ” But what really are dreams? Fearless Men shares a tantalizing glimpse in What Dreams Mean: How To Know What Your...
View ArticleOur First Rental House Plunge
By Terry & Angy Sprouse We (Terry & Angy) are partners in both marriage and in real estate business. Who says married couples can’t be business partners? And the great thing is we have never...
View ArticleWill Rogers’ Secret of Seizing Opportunities
“It was not so much that Will sought the new opening as that he never failed to seize it when it came his way.” — Betty Rogers It’s nice to think that we are captain’s of our own ship and masters of...
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