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"If you give from your heart, it will come back to you tenfold" - Anthony Robbins
Inspired by Tony Robbins and other Basket Brigade Volunteers around the world, this Thanksgiving will be our very first Basket Brigade in the local community. Surrey Basket Brigade will be having their Annual Thanksgiving Day Basket Brigade Food Drive Weekend, Saturday October 8th, 2016 at 9.00AM.
Our team of volunteers will be feeding 30 families in the Lower Mainland this year. These families will not have much, if anything, to eat or feel grateful that there are strangers out there that care about them.
If you are willing to volunteer or generously donate for this great cause, please contact me at 604 308 6404 or just send me an e mail.
Help us make a difference for Thanksgiving in our community this year.
Here is a short video by Tony Robbins on the power of Basket Brigade and how you can bring hope back to life in peoples lives.
13 Proactive Ways to Increase Rent & Add Value to Your Rental Property
As a real estate investor, I am a big fan of Buy and Hold. That being said, if you are going to go down this path, you will want to know how to increase the rent and the return from your rentals. Doing so encompasses all factors of property management.
Leasing faster, and to higher quality tenants will definitely increase your return. Renting for a higher price and increasing the rent upon renewal will as well. And so will preventing maintenance problems before they come up, as well as increasing tenant retention. But the question I usually get is how do we achieve all of these ends?
Here are 13 of the best ways you could increase the rent and value of your rental property:
1. Improve the appearance of the front of the property for curb appeal
2. Quality Advertising with high quality pictures
3. Make sure the unit is well lit and smells good for showings
4. Don't just show the property and let the tenant walk through....sell it to them
5. Don't start your rent too low
6. Screen, screen, screen and then screen more. Bad tenants always eat your cashflow
7. Always raise rent upon lease renewal
8. Charge more for month to month rentals
9. Allow for pets and charge pet rent
10. Be on top of regular and preventative maintenance
11. Maintain contact with tenants in other ways like newsletters and social media
12. Charge for amenities and perks
13. Increase renewals with a resident program
The more you can raise the rents, lower costs, and increase retention, the better your bottom line will be. Good management can save bad investments, and bad management can kill goo ones.
Be proactive in increasing your rental returns and Happy Investing!
Mississauga condo developer forgets to put 120 bathrooms in brand new building
You have to really read the headlines these days. This news article on CBC's website complete with a a recorded interview with a developer was just a made up story.
In case you didn't hear the satirical story, it was basically about residents discovering, shortly after taking possession of their suites in a 35 story Mississauga condo, that their new homes were devoid of washrooms.
Seems like CBC Radio got a great kick out of this. Read the rest of the story here.
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