What do you need to succeed as a Landlord?

Tim Ballering — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:24:15 +0000

Fellow landlords

What services, tools, resource, supplies, innovations, changes in laws, grants, education, support from fellow owners etc. do you find lacking, unavailable, too expensive, too difficult to obtain, change etc.?

You get the idea…what do you see as the three, four or twenty things that would make your business more successful? Skies the limit. If it has to do with landlording or real estate investing throw it on the list.

Don’t worry if you think it is “doable” or not, Wild Ideas welcome and encouraged. But also don’t put off posting the more pedestrian needs and wants either.

You can leave comments, here or via private email to me at Tim [at] JustAlandord.com (makes sending the truly wild and innovative stuff easier for shy folks like me.) I’ll compile the list for all to see.

Some will have readily available solutions that will be posted and shared, I’m sure. Others are things our industry should be working on finding, changing, designing etc.

Some rather thought provocative comments below. Many of these were sent via email or posted on one of the list serves and reposted here as a central collection place. Please throw yours into the mix — Thanks Tim

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List of Eviction & Criminal Tenant Screening Resources

Tim Ballering — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:35:58 +0000

Wisconsin CCAP (The WI Circuit Court Automation Program), which is under attack by some legislators, provides free access to WI evictions, criminal and civil court cases. This is invaluable in checking out prospective tenants, thereby avoiding nonpaying and disruptive tenants.

What resources are available for similar screening searches outside of WI? I have attached the list of the ones we have identified. Our list currently has resources for about half the states, but not all counties in all of those states. Some are free as is WI, others we have found so far are fee based.

So let’s ”crowdsource” a more complete list. The results will be shared here for all of us to use when screening out of state tenants. If you have found other or better resources please post them to the comments on this page. I will update this list and repost it as additional resources are identified.

Continue reading to see the list we already have assembled . Clicking on a state’s name will take you to that point on the list.