Accredited investors throughout the country have lost significant wealth from their personal and retirement accounts and many have seen their retirement income evaporate.  Decades of planning have been derailed and for some their very lifestyles on the verge of collapse.  Depressed by their loss of wealth and income we have seen investors flee to cash and are sitting on the sidelines, passively waiting for the economy to recover.  Unfortunately, this is an emotional response which will do little to improve their s

Accredited investors throughout the country have lost significant wealth from their personal and retirement accounts and many have seen their retirement income evaporate.  Decades of planning have been derailed and for some their very lifestyles on the verge of collapse.  Depressed by their loss of wealth and income we have seen investors flee to cash and are sitting on the sidelines, passively waiting for the economy to recover.  Unfortunately, this is an emotional response which will do little to improve their s

There may never be a better time to buy real estate.

Real estate values have dropped in all asset classes and well located performing properties can now be purchased in the Seattle metropolitan area for prices not seen in decades.  In spite ot the current economic ups and downs, investment real estate remains one of the brightest long term investments for growth and cash flow.

I guess the first disclosure I should make is there is no way to make any rental bulletproof. There are however a number of things that an owner can to maximize the financial performance of their rental properties.

1: Start with the basics! Perhaps the most overlooked items by rental owners are some of the very basics of any property ownership.

Without giving my age away, I can vividly remember the time when in order to copy a document, you had to use carbon paper. If you wanted to copy a document for distribution to building tenants, there was a strange machine called a mimeograph that required you type the document onto a special paper, install it on a machine with a large ink drum, and crank a handle that would mysteriously produce a copy of the document onto sheets of blank paper as the handle was cranked.