The Unofficial Guide to Managing Rental Property

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The inside scoop . . .for when you want more than the official line

So you’ve decided to invest in real estate–congratulations!–but now you need to know how you can best manage your property and maximize your profit. How much should you spend on renovations? Where will you find responsible tenants? And how can you keep on top of new government regulations?
The Unofficial Guide? to Managing Rental Property answers these questions and many more, giving you insider guidance and valuable tips on managing and profiting from your investments. You’ll find savvy advice on everything from legally setting rental criteria and managing properties part-time to successfully evicting delinquent tenants and collecting damages. This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide reveals what other sources can’t or won’t, presenting unbiased recommendations to help you get the most out of your investments–and enjoy them!
* Vital Information on finding and financing great rental property and calculating rent and profit.
* Insider Secrets on selecting and retaining good tenants, ensuring on-time rent, and collecting late rent.
* Money-Saving Tips for rehabbing a property and obtaining good tax advice.
* The Latest Trends in writing legal, effective ads and interviewing and screening applicants to avoid potential problems.
* Handy Forms and Letters for contracting new tenants and communicating with current occupants.

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Property Management Kit For Dummies

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Thinking about becoming a landlord? Property Management Kit For Dummies, 2^nd Edition gives you proven strategies for establishing and maintaining rental properties, be they single family or multi-resident. You’ll see how to prepare and promote your properties, select tenants, handle repairs, avoid costly mistakes and legal snafus — and meet your long-term goals. You’ll learn all the basics of the rental housing business — from finding and showing properties and dealing with tenants to record keeping and paying your taxes.

Now you can find out if you really have what it takes to successfully manage rental property and you’ll learn all about the various options for hiring someone else to manage your property for you. You’ll find out the right way to prepare your properties for prospective tenants, set the rent and security deposit, clean up properties, and verify rental applications. In no time at all, you can become a top-notch manager by working efficiently with employees and contractors to keep your properties safe and secure. Find out how to:

• Manage your time and money wisely
• Acquire a property and prepare it for tenants
• Make your property stand out and attract tenants
• Keep good tenants and get rid of bad ones
• Collect and increase rent
• Evaluate the different types of insurance and understand income and property taxes

Complete with lists of ten reasons to become a rental property owner, ten ways to rent your vacancy, and the ten biggest mistakes a landlord can make Property Management Kit For Dummies, 2^nd Edition will help you achieve your dream of being a successful rental property owner.

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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

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Defensive Real Estate Investing: 10 Principles for Succeeding Whether Your Market is Up or Down

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As the real estate market changes after years of aggressive growth, investors everywhere are faced with uncertainty, wanting to know how to prepare for a potential real estate bust and make sure they don’t lose money.

In his authoritative new work, Defensive Real Estate Investing, bestselling author and real estate expert William Bronchick provides guiding principles to safe investments for beginning to intermediate real estate investors. This book, based on Bronchick’s successful lectures and articles, gives practical, sensible tips for anyone looking to limit risk and make sound investment choices, no matter what their local market conditions. This easy-to-follow, indispensable guide provides reassurance to investors that they can still make safe choices and achieve maximum, long-term wealth in real estate.

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The Bible of Options Strategies: The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies

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For the first time: the world’s 60 best options trading strategies, all in one expert reference! *The practical, easy-to-use trading reference for every options trader. *Why each strategy works, when it’s appropriate, and how to use it — step by step! *By Guy Cohen, creator of the Optionseasy system that’s helped thousands of traders achieve breakthrough results!

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SOA Approach to Integration

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This book shows how to define SOA integration architecture, what technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions. The book also shows how to develop web services, how to process and manage XML documents from JEE and .NET platforms, and how to use ESBs and BPEL executable business processes within SOA architecture.

Integration of applications within a business and between different businesses is becoming more and more important. The needs for up-to-date information that is accessible from almost everywhere and developing e-business solutions — particularly business to business — require that developers find solutions for integrating diverse, heterogeneous applications, developed in different architectures and programming languages and on different platforms. They have to do this quickly and cost effectively, but still preserve the architecture and deliver robust solutions that are maintainable over time.

Integration is a difficult task. This book focuses on the SOA approach to integration of existing (legacy) applications and newly developed solutions, using modern technologies, particularly web services, XML, ESB, and BPEL. The book shows how to define SOA for integration, what integration patterns to use, which technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions. It also shows how to develop web services and BPEL processes, and how to process and manage XML documents from the JEE and .NET platforms. Finally, it also explains how to integrate both platforms using web services and ESBs.

• Service-Oriented Architectures and SOA approach to integration
• SOA architectural design and domain-specific models
• Common Integration Patterns and how they can be best solved using Web services, BPEL and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Concepts behind SOA standards, security, transactions, and how to efficiently work with XML

This book is for architects and senior developers who are responsible for setting up SOA for integration for applications within the enterprise (intra-enterprise integration) and applications across enterprises (inter-enterprise integration or B2B).

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E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions

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Modern day supply chain management (SCM) continues to influence the economic and political landscape while being shaped by the wide array of forces known collectively as globalization. Instead of the traditional mode of firms competing against firms, there now are supply chains competing against supply chains. What is in good currency today refers to a firm s ability to identify the right suppliers to execute a given activity in the value chain, to organize such activities, and to manage its relationship with these suppliers. E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions explores the issues of supply chain management in a new perspective. It provides examples of integrated framework for global SCM, novel ways of improving flexibility, responsiveness, and competitiveness via strategic IT alliances among channel members in a supply chain network, and techniques that might facilitate improved strategic decision making in a SCM environment. E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions introduces a game-theoretic approach to supply chain risk management, real-life case studies, and analyzes the effects of increased transparency in supply chain and business networks.

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