Being a successful landlord requires the ability to understand rental lease agreements and when to update them.
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Time and reliability are critical factors in the real estate industry. Efficient pre-planning and management ensures a project being completed on time and on budget.
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When you're a landlord, rental properties typically require a lot of maintenance to keep them in tip-top shape. Because landlord maintenance responsibilities are specified by landlord-tenant law, knowing who is responsible for what and when in advance will eliminate the guesswork.
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Being a successful landlord requires the ability to plan for all the routine and unexpected rental property expenses, starting with maintenance. But for many new landlords and investors, preparing an accurate rental property budget is easier said than done. Landlords often overlook many property maintenance variables when estimating rental income and profits. Sadly, some end up losing their properties as a result. As a landlord, the following rental property budget template should help you put aside enough cash for those inevitable “rainy days.”
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Committing to any kind of contract is a big deal, and even a simple construction contract can come with a very large price tag. Even worse, many people feel totally unequipped to safeguard themselves against all of the potential downsides of signing a legally binding document.
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Construction projects quickly become price propositions. Construction managers and construction companies understand how volatile raw materials prices can put pressure on a project. For instance, Mortgage News Daily recently reported how “even though lumber prices have recently declined, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) says builders are facing some of the fastest increases of other building material costs in history.” And while savvy managers have long known how to hedge against that particular risk, other less obvious pitfalls have plunged many projects into delay, decline, and downright failure.
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Despite the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial real estate in the United States still boasts an impressive valuation of $1.0 trillion, according to IBISWorld. Some experts also anticipate substantial growth for the sector in the coming years.
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People want to learn how to lead well. Just look at the perpetually burgeoning publishing field of leadership manuals. From time-worn classics such as Sun Tzu’s The Art of War and Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People to newer additions such as Good to Great by Jim Collins and The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell, there’s no shortage of practical and inspirational tomes about how to become a great leader. However, these books often run into a common issue: Because they’re written for a general audience, implementing their recommendations can prove challenging when applying them to a specific field.
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Construction managers can have challenging jobs — and some might even consider them the most important part of an entire project. True, owners set the vision, and project managers oversee the entire thing, making sure it starts well and finishes strong. The role of a construction manager is different. Construction manager duties involve the starting and finishing of the structure (or structures), the task of turning an empty space into an edifice. Unfortunately, owners and project managers don’t always understand a construction manager’s daily tasks, so when issues crop up, so can unnecessary conflicts.
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There’s no doubt that commercial construction is big business. Despite the fact that construction suffered a worldwide correction in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ReportLinker estimates that “global construction output will expand by 4.5% in 2021,” and Statista reported that the “construction industry grew to a spending value of close to 12 trillion U.S. dollars before the coronavirus pandemic.” But this doesn’t mean that the industry is without challenges. A 2015 report by KPMG discovered that more than two-thirds of owners blame contractors for underperforming construction projects and more than half had an underperforming project during the last year.
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