Lease Document Elements
For investors and property managers, one key to a smoother interaction with tenants is a well-written lease agreement. Learn the basic items that should be there.

What Sellers Want
Real estate sellers surveys tell us that they want help from their real estate listing agent with finding a buyer for their home or property, selling their home in their time frame, help with closing or settlement, paperwork, negotiation, as well as help fixing up their home for sale.

Calculate Loan to Value Ratio
When working with real estate clients, agents and brokers are frequently tasked to help buyers to determine what they can afford in a home. One of the factors is the size of the mortgage they can get. The loan to value ratio is the percentage of a property‘s value that is mortgaged. Lenders will make mortgages based on maximum loan to value for different types of properties.

Rental Facility Maintenance
Facility or physical maintenance is an important function of real estate property management. Regular preventive maintenance, as well as repairs when things go wrong, are quite important to tenant retention, higher occupancy and greater return on investment.

Short Sale Loans
Doing short sales when two loans are secured to the property. How to handle dual short sale mortgage loans. Negotiating with first- and second-position lenders for short sales.

Home Repair Estimating
Real estate investing, and especially the flipping of properties, frequently involves the purchase of a property in poor condition and repairing and remodeling it to result in a profit when it’s sold. Obviously, great risk is assumed if the real estate investor isn’t able to accurately estimate repair costs. Here are resources to help.

Cap Rate Calcs for Clients
Capitalization rate is a common method used in the process of arriving at the value of an income property, such as rental units, commercial rental space, etc. Learn the calculations you’ll need as a real estate agent to work with your investor clients.

Sales Comparison Approach
The Sales Comparison Approach a property valuation method that uses the value of recently sold comparable properties to determine the subject property‘s value. I

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