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Landlord Video Tips – Leases and the Law!

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Do You Know The Local Laws For Leases As A Landlord?

Bylaws, Landlord Tenant Acts, Tenancy Acts, Landlord Tribunals, Rental Laws, these are just a  few of the names of the local regulations and their associated acts covering leases and landlording that I have seen and heard of and I am sure my list is way too short.

You see every region, state, province, county, city and town seem to have their own quirks and rules when it comes to what can and cannot be in a lease and what control or lack of control a landlord has to deal with tenants and tenant issues.

Yet time and time again, I see landlords using leases that are completely wrong for their region because they were able to download a free copy off the internet. People, give your head a shake if you’re doing this. You have a rental property worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, make sure you have a lease that protects you, even if it costs you a hundred dollars or more to get it drafted by your lawyer.

In this video I talk about making sure you use the right lease to protect yourself and making sure you know the local rules as far as what’s allowed.

Just to add to this, be careful of where you get your landlord information and advice, me included!

I’m a member of multiple landlord groups and I see landlords constantly asking questions about notices, eviction processes, leases and more. All without mentioning where they are located.

They are getting dozens of different answers that are all legal, hopefully anyway, where the person answering lives. It may not be legal in your area though, so do your homework!

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Landlord Video Tips – Better Ads Get Better Tenants

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Write Better Rental Ads And Get Better Tenants

If you don’t want to get better tenants, use ads like this 2br/2ba aprtmnt sty rental, dw.grg $795/mo

Ever see an ad like that before? Can you even read it? Well, neither can tenants so how can you get better tenants if they can’t read your ads?

Sure they might still call off of an ad like this, but just to get an explanation of what all those abbreviations meant in your ad!

It’s pretty simple, if you write better ads with more details and that are more targeted to the tenants you are looking for and you’ll start getting better tenants and trust me, you want better tenants!

The following video will give you a few additional hints and tips that you can use to help make sure your ads attract the tenants you want, need and should have in your property!

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Need more ides about writing better ads for your rental properties?

I have another article where I talk about how to get better tenants by writing better ads that you can find here, The Secrets To Writing Better Ads To Attract Better Tenants.

The tips in that article should help point you in the right direction, plus check out many of our other articles available here to guid you even further in the right direction!

It all starts with better tenants and better tenants make your life as a landlord that much easier.

Landlord Video Tips – Renovations For Your Rental Property , A Quick and Easy Update

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Quick Renovations For Your Rental Property

Want the most bang for your buck when it comes to renovations for your rental property? This video gives you the number one update to consider for your rental property.

Fortunately it’s not an over expensive renovation for your rental either!

As a bonus I include my number one tip for making your job as a long term landlord even easier and what you need to avoid to make renting your property faster as well.

 

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Landlord Video Tips – A Landlord’s Most Important Asset

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Understanding Your Assets

This is a simple, yet important, lesson for new landlords. Often we think the property itself is the most important asset when it comes to being a landlord, but you are missing the real asset that makes this all worthwhile.

Think you know the answer? Watch the video to make sure.

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Landlord Video Tips – Advertising Your Vacant Rental Properties Online

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Advertise Online For Better Exposure!

With more and more people connected to the internet, advertising your vacant properties online has become a necessity. This quick video talks about some online options and even tells you how to find the best online sites to advertise your property at by simply thinking like a tenant!

This was video number three in my series, I hope you’ve been enjoying them so far, if you have questions that I could answer in a two minute video feel free to leave a comment below or email me and I’ll see if I can video reply to you!

It’s becoming more important for landlords to remember they are running a business and they need to think strategically about their landlord business. Hopefully these quick landlord tips are providing the advice that helps your business run smoothly.

Landlord Video Tips – Screening Your Tenants

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Screening Your Tenants –
Make It a Priority!

Once you let a tenant into your property, you could be stuck with them for better or worse. So why not make sure it’s for better?

Diligently screening your tenants can make the difference between months of late payments and arguments or having the best possible tenants out there.

This quick video gives you some reminders and pointers to watch out for!

Are you screening your tenants? Are you screening them well?

It’s one of the biggest challenges new landlords run into. They don’t know the tricks bad tenants use to fool landlords, the tricks they use to get great referrals (fake referrals that is) and they have no clue where to find, how to read or what to do about credit reports.

Yet mastering that should probably be their first priority.

If you can master finding good tenants who will make your property better, with fewer headaches, less problems and typically stay longer, wouldn’t you make that a priority?

That’s where a good screening process comes into play and is what I talk about in the video.

It’s also why I created my How To Screen Tenants Like An Educated Landlord Course. I used to offer this as a simple five email course, but I decided to ramp it up a couple years ago to make it a simple step by step process to help more landlords get good tenants.

And that meant more than just the basics.

With my course I start teaching you about screening your tenants by showing you how to write ads that attract the best tenants, that do some of your screening for you to make your job easier and to help stop deadbeat tenants from even bothering to call.

Then I teach you what to ask and why. This is part of the 7 Questions That Landlords Need To Ask guide, just much more in depth.

From there you go all the way through the paperwork process, secrets about releasing keys and even what to do with applicants who you’ve rejected.

If you’re a landlord who’s ever had problems finding good tenants, this course will make you wonder why you didn’t know about it sooner.

If you want to learn the best methods of screening your tenants, follow this link and get started educating yourself today,

How To Screen Tenants Like an Educated Landlord

Screening your tenants properly can reduce headaches significantly

Welcome to our Video Tips For Landlords!

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Video Tips For Landlords

After what seems like forever, I’ve finally started recording some of my short video tips for landlords. Here’s the introduction video to get you started and to explain a bit more. Oh and watch for more shortly.

I’ll have more coming that will go over areas such as renovations, advertising your rentals and even more, so if you don’t want to miss any of them, be sure to register on the site and I’ll update you as I finish and post them!

Also, you can always find me on YouTube at The Educated Landlord On YouTube

If you’re not sure where to register, just follow this link:

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Don’t forget to like the video and leave me any comments you may have. If you have questions about landlording you would like to see a video about, be sure to leave me a comment below!