This is a guest post by the Calgary mortgage specialists at the Purcell Mortgage Team.  For mortgage related tips and tricks, check out their weekly-updated mortgage blog.The real estate market has had its ups and downs, with the end result being...
Topics: Mortgage, Real Estate Investing

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So, recently I had the realization that the late fees I charge tenants are obviously not high enough. I have a few tenants who consistently, every single month, are late on their rent.Of course, the reasons range from car trouble to an occasional dead...
Topics: Care and Feeding of Tenants

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In the past, when a person stopped making payments on their home, it generally took 3 months before they were foreclosed upon by the bank and evicted from the property.These days, as any real estate agent will tell you, it could take the better part of a.
Topics: Real Estate Investing

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Recently I made a post directed at tenants about how NOT to inquire about a rental property. This post is sort of a follow-up to that one:This SHOULD be a common-sense-type concept but from my recent experience fielding phone calls about one of our...
Topics: Care and Feeding of Tenants

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Currently have one detached single-family house on the market for rent. When the last tenants moved out we had to hire a landscaping crew to come in and perform a complete makeover on the yard.The tenants had “maintained” the yard by cutting..
Topics: Contractors

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