The Book on Managing Rental Properties: A Proven System for Finding, Screening, and Managing Tenants with Fewer Headaches and Maximum Profits: 3 (Biggerpockets Rental Kit)

The book covers some important points for people who want to get into the business of managing rental properties. It is important to consider rental property management as a business, and to have a repeatable process in place to save time and energy. It is also important to be firm and fair with tenants, and to understand the legal aspects of housing. Finally, it is important to train tenants so that they can pay rent on time.

Really good book with many tips and details on how to be the more professional rental manager. Many tips for many areas. Worth every penny.

I always love their books about real estate investment. This is the third book from these incredible couple that I read. Very useful tips and covers all aspects of property management. Most importantly, their words give you courage and consolation. Only thing is this only covers US situation, if you want know about Canadian regulations and laws, you have to search yourself. But the techniques and ideas of managing included here are incredible and worth learning very much.

After my husband passed in 2023 I had to take over our rental properties. Purchasing this book saved me a lot of headaches in managing the apartments. It covers just about every situation you might encounter including taking over a rental property, screening tenants, leases, contracts, managing tenants, problem tenants, getting rid of bad tenants, dealing with contractors, business organization and bookkeeping. Plus the appendix has numerous sample forms for different situations and a brief summary of landlord-tenant laws for each state with links. A year later I am much more confident in being a landlord but still have occasion to reference this book.

Purchased The Book on Managing Rental Properties back in April 2016 and have read it two or three times and find myself using it as a reference guide. I have owned rental property since the late 1990s and thought I knew all there was to know about managing rental property. I was wrong. This book offers a new perspective and practical advice. The book is absolutely correct -- "No matter how great you are at finding good rental property deals, you could lose everything if you don’t manage your properties correctly!" There are so many great tips that can be gleaned from reading this book: **Potential Tenant Questionnaire **Tennant Referral Bonus $100 **Recommendation on a tenant's rental income should be equal to at least three times the monthly rent **Tennant Qualifying Standards **Anyone over 18 years of age must fill out an application if they live in the residence (very good advice) **How to get your property ready to rent **Fair Housing Laws **How to market your property to get the most qualified applicants **The application process and why it is important to do a background and credit check -- red flags to look for **How to manage tenants and every day transactions. **The world of contractors and how to deal with them. **Organizational structure of the rental property business **The landlord business Being a landlord is not an easy job if you are not well informed on "how" to manage rental property. I found this book to be a very comprehensive book on managing rental property. I have since purchased additional books from these authors and those associated with the Bigger Pockets website.

SO good! This book is so good and is just full of the most practical actionable knowledge that you need to know about Buy and hold investing. I would highly recommend this book to any buy and hold investor both new and seasoned. Also just a shout out to Bigger pockets itself, it has done SO MUCH for me in terms of growing me in my real estate journey and would honestly urge anyone that is in or thinking of getting into real estate to check out bigger pockets and you will see what I am talking about!