Get onboard with web-based property management — If you’re a landlord, real estate investor, or property manager, like many of the rest of us, you probably started off managing your business using spreadsheets. …

Starting your journey to financial freedom. — Most people will tell you that the first thing you need to start investing is money. I disagree. It’s interest. No, not the money kind, the normal kind. Success starts with some sort of spark…something that leads to a belief, decisions, actions, and eventually, results. Folks who seem interested in…

The best tool in my side hustle belt! — Rental property analysis is a must-have skill for a new investor. Back-of-the-napkin math will work, but probably not until you’ve looked at dozens or hundreds of deals. If you don't know how to do it, you can easily make mistakes. Annual Property Operating Analysis Sheet - Etsy A customizable Excel analysis template designed to allow any user to determine the viability of purchasing and…www.etsy.com

These elements of mindset can help you be anything you want. — Ever feel like you try and try and can never reach your goals? It’s not like you’re lazy or unwilling, but things just don’t seem to materialize as easily for you as they do for those around you. Success is hard to come by. Does it sometimes feel like you’re…

Simple trickle-down rentonomics — Landlords are not known for their excellent reputations. The word “landlord” itself evokes a visceral reaction conjuring up images of fat, greedy men who trample on the rights of the most disadvantaged populations in order to line their already full pockets. So yes, it’s easy to demonize them and yes…

And I’m not the only one — This message comes to you, not from my private jet, not from my ivory tower, and not from any other real or proverbial hilltop. It comes from someone who works seventy hours per week, has three kids, and lives in a residential neighborhood in a small upstate NY town. …

Dear Mayor Cuomo: I’m writing this message today to let you know that many housing providers in Broome County, NY are at a tipping point. Across Binghamton, Johnson City & Endicott, the once-temporarily-tenable-situations are deteriorating into utter unmanageability. …

A House Flipper learns much more than a lesson about risk. — Setting the Stage Long before I ever knew I would be a real estate investor or a house flipper I met a local business owner named Jon. He was a good friend of a family member. Jon was in the commercial entertainment business. He set up all the large events locally and in…

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Working for a large corporation, I liked my job and I thought the work I was doing was a good representation of myself. I had a staff and we had staff meetings. I had a…

The old-fashioned way. — Over the last few years through my experience generating many types of income streams, both active and passive, there is one simple formula that has worked every time in my business and all of its systems. It always begins with a belief — followed by decisions, actions, and results. Rinse…

The Government Won’t Let Us Help You. — Dear New York Renters, This is an appeal to all the hard working, responsible members of the rental communities in New York. You are the strength of the working class and the remnants of the once thriving middle class. You represent strong work ethics, family values and clean living. You…

And why that’s a good thing — I know you think it can’t be done…but I did it…with strangers. In late Spring of 2020, COVID was raging across the country. We’d been in the house with our kids for months. We weren't stuck in the house and this wasn't a tragedy for us, gratefully. …

How to capitalize on the opportunity of a lifetime — With so many displaced workers entering and staying in the remote workspace, it’s time to get honest about things. Remote working is not for everyone, and it’s not easy to do it well. These days, everyone from customer support reps to psychologists and teachers seems to be working from home…