Being a landlord is stressful, especially if you own a residential rental property. The constant stream of tenants moving in and moving out, the headaches of home repairs, and the upkeep and maintenance that has to be done regularly are just a few of the many headaches multi-unit home and apartment owners have to deal with. Do you need Seattle apartment management? Its not that we think you can’t do it yourself. Of course you can.

So you want to buy an investment property? Do you have any idea at all about how to go about doing it? You’ll first need to find the investment property listings Seattle speculators have deemed worthwhile. Not all of them are a good investment. If you haven’t done this before or if it’s been a while, you might want to hire a professional to help you out. That’s what we do here at the Foundation Group.

The game has changed. If you haven’t been paying attention, you’re probably wondering why you’re taking losses when real estate is always supposed to go up. Do you still think you can handle a property investment on your own? In this current economic climate you can use all the help you can get. The simple decision of “Buy Low, Sell High” isn’t so simple anymore. Recent history has taught us that. It’s likely that property values will go up, but it’s no longer guaranteed.

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.