renting: My education was so expensive that I don’t want to use it - 03/02/16 07:09 AM

Have you ever heard this one? “We used to have a rental but we had a bad experience and we never wanted to go through that again so we sold the property.”
 
To me that is the same as saying, “My education was so expensive and stressful that I don’t want to use it so I ripped up the diploma.”  Essentially, the expense and stress of any situation is just like paying tuition for some education.  Now that you paid for an education you should use it.  Ask yourself things like what went wrong?  What should I have done different?  How can … (1 comments)

renting: Tips: Do you Train your Tenants or Do they Train You? - 06/30/08 09:25 AM
Weirdly, tenants have to be trained to follow the rules or they will walk all over you.  Anyone that can't respect the rules is not someone that you want to keep as a tenant.
It is important for Landlords to follow and enforce every part of the lease.  Landlords must not give one time waving of a late fee or payment plans for late rent. If someone is late you can not agree to getting paid later without compromising the lease agreement.  I learned this the hard way.  For example: If someone says, "I can't get you rent until the end of … (1 comments)

 
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Jeff Stinson

Springville, UT

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