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So you want to be a Real Estate Investor: Rental Property Version

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Four Corners 0541318

Rental property investment is a great investment options for investors who are concerned about negligible gains of the stock market. The major idea behind any property investment is to regulate tax savings and cash flow. Rental property investment is the property investment that offers you both the benefits simultaneously. There are several categories of the rental property investment, such as multi-story residential rental properties, single-family rental properties, holiday homes and commercial rental properties.
The residential rental property category includes single-family housing and the multi-story residential rental properties include buildings and apartments for many families. The commercial rental property category includes renting office buildings and shopping centers for the commercial purposes. You can rent your property for one of the purposes.
Of course making money off of rental properties is not always as simple as buying a cheap house and finding tenants. Bagging a rental property and collecting a good rental income for a long term is really an unimaginative task. It requires great effort to maintain a constant rental income until one sell his or her property. (Well, unless you hire a property management company… and what a spectacular coincidence, the NTX Real Estate group happens to also specialize in DFW-Area Property Management!)
Shameless, self-promotion aside, one of the basic techniques in rental property investing is to find qualified tenants and keep them satisfied, if you want to save your property from being a vacant rental property. This includes finding the demands of the tenants and making repairs in the home regularly. If your rental property is there in your own city, then it is really beneficial for you. It will help you collect the rent at any moment, the tenants also will be available easily, and it will be close to your residence. It is better if your renting property is close to a college or university, as you will have a massive range of tenants round the year. In short, rental property investment is to

  • Analyze the locale
  • Keeping the tenants contented
  • Doing whatever is needed to rent the property
  • Finding different ways to minimize the vacancy period

If you only have one single-family rental property (ie: only one tenant), then you cannot expect a considerable cash flow from the property. However, it can help you maintain your current expenses and the mortgage. Of course in order to make a profit you (or your property management company) will have to make a budget of the maintenance of the renting property for a year in advance. This budget planning involves repairing, expenses on property maintenance, emergency and vacancy.

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