What is your late payment rental policy? Post 218


Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™   On a landlording site an interesting question got a lot of response. The Question What is your policy toward on time rental payment? Do you have a Zero Tolerance, ZT, for late rental payments, or do you work with the tenants and their situation? To be Late Payment Tolerant or Not […] . . .

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Fast Talking Tax Lien Sellers Post 217


Craigslist: FL Tax Lien On Sale 10/7/2015 Legal Notice — Florida Tax Lien Sales — Daily News You can invest in tax lien certificates from anywhere in the world. When you own a tax lien certificate, you have a certain right on the property, but you don’t own the property yet. Tax year is […] . . .

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How To Increase Your Rate of Return. Post 216


How Do You Increase Your Rate of Return? http://kclau.com/investment/increase-return/ ******************** Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™ Editor’s Note: I commented on this article about increasing yield. You started to allude to where the real returns within investment are, in your own business. Businessmen know that the best return is created when they invest in themselves, e.g. their knowledge, their […] . . .

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Why don't wannabe real estate investors invest? Post 215


Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™ Aside from winning the lottery or marrying into money, investing in real estate seems to be thought of as a way that the average American can gain wealth. They are correct! Most people I speak with are fascinated by the idea of being real estate investors, but only very few actually do […] . . .

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62,000 Tax Foreclosures in Detroit. Post 214


Mass Tax Foreclosure Threatens Detroit Homeowners AP March 30, 2015 Homeowners sit … waiting for their cases to be heard to avoid foreclosure from tax debts in Detroit on Jan. 29. This year, Wayne County officials sent out 62,000 foreclosure notices to city homeowners behind on property taxes. In Detroit, tens of thousands of people […] . . .

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Coach Mitch's "Golden Rule" for real estate investing. Post 213


[Ed.] This is part of a story from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Imagine a group of people contemplating a piano. They have never seen or heard of a piano in their lives, nor, for that matter, any other musical instrument – they live in a world in which the very concept of music is unknown. “It’s […] . . .

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Coach Mitch's Best Landlording Ideas. Post 212


Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™ I read Mr. Landlord. Recently a good question was posed: What changes have you made in your rental business in the last three years? I list my suggestions first and have cherry picked many of the others. There’s a lot of good stuff here. When I ran a large Real Estate Investors […] . . .

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City criminalizes landlords. Post 211


Schenectady Gazette NY City cracks down on landlords who miss inspections The crackdown on apartment inspections has begun. Using public documents, city building inspectors have made a list of properties likely to be rented out. Starting with the Union Street area, they sent out 120 letters this week to the owners of those properties. In […] . . .

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Use notes to buy tax sale property. Post 206.


Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™ [Editor’s Note] A student asks about structuring a promissory note. Coach Mitch, Hypothetical scenario, when a tax delinquent homeowner agrees to transfer the property’s responsibility to me, title included, how should a promissory note be structured? Should the amount of the note be the tax amount that has been paid by the […] . . .

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Tax Delinquent Property Allows Landlords To Buy Cheap. Post 204


Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™ facebook March 29, 2014 Editor: This question was posted on facebook. Yes or No? In your opinion, is this onerous… You have paid $35 application fee for new apartment, and told you got the apartment. You agree on a move-in date, and you hire a mover. You show up to give […] . . .

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