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Becoming a landlord is easy. Operating a successful property management company, especially is you're managing multiple properties, can be overwhelming for many first-time landlords. Here are five tips to get you started on the right path to boost profits and control operating expenses. Tips for Managing Multifamily Homes & Different Property Types When establishing performance expectations, make certain you set realistic goals. For example, expecting a small apartment complex in a mixed…

Voluntary home buyouts are used by the Harris County Flood Control District to reduce flood damages in areas hopelessly deep in the floodplain where structural flood damage reduction projects, like channel modifications or detention basins, are not cost effective and/or beneficial. Generally, these are homes that should have never been built. More than 60 percent of the county was developed before floodplain regulations were implemented in the 1980s. The Flood Control District’s Voluntary Home…

be a residential real estate agent. At less than a week old, I was drug to my parent’s workplace, a small, family owned real estate firm. As my parents divorced and were both left as single parents and real estate agents, it was very common for them to include me in their work responsibilities. Each of them were forced to take me along while showing endless properties to clients. Through constantly being immersed in the everyday practices of the field, I have been intrigued by real estate and…

A Review of the Marika-Alderton House Marika-Alderton House (photo 1) which was completed in 1994 was designed for an aboriginal artist, Banduk Marika and her partner. It is located in the Northern Territory, Australia. The house was built with mainly hardwood and plywood with steel frame. The architect, Glenn Murcutt who is a British-born Australian designed this house to show the ideology of environmental and cultural values. He spend three years researching on the aboriginal culture,…

Symbolism plays a major part in Tennessee William 's famous play, "The Glass Menagerie." Tom Wingfield is the narrator and a major character in “The Glass Menagerie”. Through the Tom’s perception, the reader gets a glance into the life of his family; his mother, a Southern belle clinging to the past; his sister, a young woman who’s too fragile to function in normal society; and himself, a struggling, young poet working at a warehouse to provide for his family. Williams has managed to create a…

international properties to Russian buyers. Their first and foremost concern is to receive their chunk of international sales commissions in full and on time. There are no regulations on the commission size and no rules on sharing real estate commission in Russia at all. Each real estate company and each realtor choose from the offers they receive from various countries just those that are more profitable for them. Of course, the size of the commission matters for realtors a lot. The usual…

Yes, technology is great and makes life a little easier but there is negative effects. Because of this children are living in a fantasy online world and are being disconnected from the real world. As adults we probably are not all setting the right example either when we can’t even put our phones down at dinner or any social gathering. We have to find ways to be more involved in children’s access and limiting it. Not just to protect the…

Real Estate Tax Strategies Achieving Financial Strength Through Real Estate Tax Strategies The right tax strategy can help you build true wealth because you can deduct hundreds of everyday personal and business expenses and interest payments, generate cash flow from rentals while building equity and realize tax-free capital gains on the sale of primary homes every two years. Any financial portfolio benefits by including real estate to hedge and balance the investments. In real estate, agents…

After the end of World War II, American life in the 1950s was supposedly calm and harmonious. Americans moved out of the cities and into the suburbs along the “smiling sunbelt.” Many people became homeowners, the birth rate drastically increased, and most women became stay-at-home moms. However, not all aspects of American life conformed to such ideals. The films Pleasantville and Edward Scissorhands critique the 1950s and depict how the era was actually not an age of conformity. The films are…

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