Thursday, December 19, 2013

Buying Rental Property - Open Your Family Business

By Kevin Ierardi


If there is one good investment to be made in this world, it is buying rental property. A good business focused mind will see rental properties as excellent investments. But more can be done with rental properties! For example, if someone were to turn their rental property into a family owned business then it'd be much better off.

If you think that turning your rental property into a full time business is easy, then you are correct! But for that to work out, you need impeccable research skills and a lot of determination to learn. You need to multitask a lot - find a business writer to write up a business plan - develop recruitment tactics to be used later - and create a really advanced and far-sighted budget for your business. Now let's go ahead and dissect a few important phases of this type of initiative.

The first step in running a family business from within a rental property is to buy a rental property. Obvious, isn't it? But this is one of the most complicated parts of this process. Go look at different real estate markets. Don't limit yourself to one city or one state; go beyond your comfort zone to find a cheap piece of useful rental property.

Some people even go outside of their country to open family businesses. I know it sounds unbelievable but it's true and it works. Because the vacation-like atmosphere boosts the adventurous minds and creates better productivity. So don't rule out any market except for the out-of-budget ones. You can go anywhere and do anything, but you need to do some groundwork first.

The next thing on your mind should be optimizing your budget. You should prepare yourself to see a few months go by without any real revenue because that's how most businesses start out. Make sure you have enough money to keep marching forward with your business during this stage.

Business is not a magic trick so it takes years to be successful. All this hard work discourages a few people to turn away from this type of business. But it is far better to keep investing rather than doing nothing with your capital. Make the better choice for your own good!

The last thing we'll talk about is recruitment. You need to be able to find talent and retain talent to your business. Family businesses are usually run by family members, but just the family is more often than not inadequate. So you need outside help in the form of paid employees. You need to be an intelligent boss and develop a sharp intuition about employee mentality.

Buying rental property is great if it's done correctly so go ahead and take the next step.




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