Landlording

Michigan Real Estate Investing TV: Choose Customers? Damn Right!

Seth Godin is a business blog writer who generally speaks to the corporate crowd. I don’t always agree with what he writes, mostly because he has a “silicon valley” perspective that’s pretty much usless here in the auto industry, but today he wrote about something that is completely relevant, and I say critical, to being a successful and happy rental property owner.

Landlording

Michigan Real Estate Investing TV: Trust But Verify!

When I visited the Mt Clemens property I realized that Mr Seller was renting out a storage room as a studio, and he had included that revenue in his numbers. I then used those numbers to make my offer. Since it’s not practical to plan to re-rent a potentially illegal studio, I re-ran my numbers and as you’d expect, removing that revenue significantly impacted the profitability of the property. And not in a good way.