News from Green Residential and around the world of Property Management and rental homes in Houston and Austin.
If you’ve spent any time watching HGTV, you’ve seen the imposing profits that can come from real-estate investments. A quick Google search yields hundreds more stories about investors who made their fortunes in the housing industry. It’s an attractive investment market, but difficult to enter without a lot of initial capital. Even people who have
You have a lot to do as a landlord. Properties don’t take care of themselves, and it’s your responsibility to see that your properties are in tip-top shape for your tenants. This often has you staring at an impressive number of items on your to-do list. Thinking about your to-do list isn’t necessarily a productive
If you’re looking to invest in properties, one skill you’ll need to hone is reading real estate listings. To the untrained eye, a real estate listing is a skeleton – a bare frame that’s only filled by photos and a tour of the property – but to the experienced reader, property descriptions are a code
If you’re in the market to buy a home for the first time, everything about the process is new, obviously. From getting pre-approved and finding a real estate agent to reviewing the listings and making an offer, very little about the process is apt to be familiar.
We operate in a world where categories are appreciated. We like to put things into neat compartments that allow for easy sorting, and the real estate market is no different.
To an outsider, someone who glances at the raw numbers of property management, being a landlord might seem fairly easy. All you have to do is buy the property, find someone to live in it, and pull in the profits, right?