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How to Strategically Choose a Home Loan

September 8, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 2 Comments

Home Loan

It's your first time buying a home and you need a loan! Which one home loan do you choose? How do you know which one is better for you? Look no further because below I have listed the pros and cons of several different types of home loans. Single Ownership Single ownership is if you do not plan on owning multiple houses at one time. There is no need to worry extensively over the type of loan to take in this situation. You should take the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buying or Selling Real Estate, Lifestyle Tagged With: Home Loans

Thinking of Selling Your Placeholder Home? Read This First!

September 8, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

Placeholder

Are you planning on coming back to the area eventually? Do you want a house that is building equity and keeping place in the market? If the answer is yes, then why are you selling your placeholder? A house that keeps you in the market that has a mortgage that would be reduced by your tenants paying it is a good choice to keep. While there are certainly downsides, keeping your house in the city has a lot more positives beyond the … [Read more...]

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Why You Should Screen Your Tenants and How You Should do it

July 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 10 Comments

Screen Your Tenants

Evictions are very expensive and costly in both time and money. That's why screening a tenant is one of the most important things you can do. Tenant-friendly states drastically increase the importance of screening a tenant so make sure you have a plan to take care of this! The steps that I take to screen a tenant are very important to my process. I require that a background and credit check be run by myself instead of the tenant providing … [Read more...]

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How to Establish a Sight Unseen Lease

July 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 2 Comments

sight unseen lease

My husband and I love being landlords, and our newest niche is allowing leases from tenants who are willing to rent sight unseen. Even though we are willing to allow it, I found out from calling around that most companies will not allow these type of leases. For us, it is another way to serve our customer base as 5 out of 8 of our leases over the past two years have been from renters willing to sign a lease on our house sight unseen. Since my … [Read more...]

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How to Rent Your House in One Showing

July 20, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 2 Comments

How to Rent Your House in One Showing

Renting your house out is the most stressful part of being a landlord. I've learned a lot in my time as a landlord and I want to share my tips with you. Here are 5 tips to get your house rented fast at market price. How to Rent Your House With These 5 Easy Tips: 1. Price the House Right: If your house is over-priced by even $50.-$75. then your showing numbers will be greatly reduced and the prospective tenants will not be as serious. 2. … [Read more...]

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How to Choose the Best Lease Term

July 20, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 2 Comments

Lease Term

There are many different types of lease terms and they have different pros and cons. Here are a few examples... Three Lease Terms to Choose From: 1. Month To Month (M-to-M):  Pros: A short term lease allows either party to break the lease with 30 or 60 days notice depending on the lease.  Cons: Tenants can break the lease at any time with proper notice. This is a problem if there are definite moving seasons in your areas.  Ask … [Read more...]

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The Solution to a Broken Lease: The Buy-Out Clause

July 17, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove 26 Comments

The Buy-Out Clause

Tenants breaking the lease was one of my most common "issues" and seem to occur regularly. The default legal language does not allow for any penalty for breaking a lease beyond holding a tenant to the lease until a replacement has been found. The Problem: Landlords, by law,  are required to re-list the house and show the house in a good faith effort. I have never lost a day of rent so I was always penalized. It made me very upset that … [Read more...]

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Should You Rent or Sell Your Home?

July 14, 2014 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

Should You Rent or Sell Your Home?

Not sure if you should rent or sell your house? Take this quiz to find out! Rent or Sell Quiz: Can you afford to cover maintenance on the house or other sudden expenses? Are you willing to treat the house like a business and not a home? Can you hold onto this house without being prevented from qualifying for future houses? Are you willing to hold onto the house for long term? Do you like other people paying your mortgage? Are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buying or Selling Real Estate, Lifestyle Tagged With: Quiz, rent, sell

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