The Landlord's Kit: A Complete Set of Ready-To-Use Forms, Letters, and Notices to Increase Profits, Take Control, and Eliminate the Hassle
Author: Jeffrey Taylor
List Price: $18.95
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ISBN: 0793158737
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing (20 September, 2002)
Sales Rank: 5,907
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
The Landlord's Kit Helped Me Take Control!
Before reading this book, I often felt like I was not in control with my residents. I started using many of the over 100 rental forms in The Landlord's Kit, and residents are now much more cooperative (they pay rent on time, properly maintain the property and the residents actually like and respect me more). The book has a form to help me with every aspect of the rental relationship and even gives me numerous management tips that have helped me increase my cash flow and fill my vacancies faster. The book has been so helpful, I also purchased an additional copy for my relative who also owns rental property. If you're a landlord, or thinking about buying rental property, join a local real association and by all means defintely have this book as one of your main real estate resources.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Extremely Disappointing
Although this book would appear to have a lot of promise, it ultimately fails. Like Mr. Taylor's self-proclaimed "Certified Professional Landlord" title (Fill in your name on page 218 for your own bogus certification!), these phony forms are imaginative but have little to no legal standing. Worse, Taylor apparently has little respect for his tenants. One form, the "Tenant Late Rent Warning and Excuses" form ("To be given to new, renewing, and late tenants.") asks tenants to mark a box as to why their rent was late. Sample excuses: I was mugged. "You didn't come by when I had the money," "I didn't have a stamp," "I'm dead." A chuckle for a landlord, but also a cynical and unprofessional suggestion. Taylor's advice on handling phone calls from prospective residents is even worse - he promotes using a hard-sell interrogation on the first contact that seems destined to drive away prospective tenants. Anyone with intentions to do good business would be well served to get more professional advice than this extremely disappointing book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
MUST READ
This book along with a number of other products available from the mrlandlord.com web site has enabled me to more than double the profitability of my property portfolio with only two of Jeffrey's ideas. If you ever get the oppertunity to see this guy speak then you must go. In the mean time get his book and put the ideas into action. It is also good for commercal property as well as the residential market that it is targeted at.TheGrocer aka thelazyfool aka Michael Pettett.
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