Dec
4
Tenants! Who’d Have ‘em!
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Tenants can fall into three main camps -- the good, the bad and the badder!
I have some great tenants that are okay to deal with, even when things go wrong with your property (which they will, nothing is rosy in the world of property investing). Some though are a royal pain in the backside. They want everything, but don’t want to pay for it. The “rich” landlord can pay because he/she can afford it! Recently I visited a tenant and the property was in need of some painting after there’d been some damp issues from internal condensation and the cold and wet English weather combining to form a double whammy to the walls and ceilings in the property.
I bought a really powerful dehumidifer that can take up to 20 litres of moisture out of the atmosphere in a matter of hours! I instructed them on how to use it and explained where it was supposed to be situated (in high moisture areas like the kitchen and bathroom). Do you know where I found it when I visited the property? No. Then let me tell you… in their bedroom with the door closed! WTF! How is it going to do its job sitting there FFS! That is why the mould built up in the first place. FW!
So I agreed on painting walls and ceilings, there was nothing much wrong with the doors that a wipe would not fix.
At work, get a phone call on the mobile. Why are the doors not being painted? After a long conversation explaining the situation, I said if you’re that concerned, buy some paint and do it yourself. Painting the doors was not necessary and would add around £400 in terms of labour and time to the bill of over £1,000 already agreed.
Not sure if the tenant fully understood… well I hope she did!
What are your horror stories with tenants? Let me know by leaving a comment in the comments box below. The best of these reponses will go into a new book I ‘m going to publish so leave me your email or web address too. You might get some free publicity for you or your business.
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Oct
23
Becoming an Internet Marketing/Business Consultant
Filed Under Make Money, Marketing via the Internet | Leave a Comment
I received an email from Andy Jenkins a little while ago (why do I stay up so late reading my emails? 
( ) and I just had to read the blog post. It’s something I fully believe everybody should be doing; not necessarily in internet marketing and consulting for small businesses, but that everybody should have a second stream of income to supplement their day job and make their lives better. So I read the article and had to post a reply, which I felt was sooo good I had to share it with you guys. Here it is…..
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Hey Andy,
I like your style of writing: upfront, to the point, in your face, funny and so on. I didn’t want to say you’re an inspiration to us all because it always looks soooo cheesy and to me it borders on adulation by the masses… but this time I have to hand it to you… your message was pretty darned good and you’re so right. It did the job with me and got me to thinking about actually doing something along these lines.
You see, I work full time at the moment and I’ve got a bit of a thing about being a full time employee and then holding myself out to be a “consultant” to business people and entrepreneurs that have had the guts to break out of the J.O.B. mould and work on their own business. I haven’t done this yet (although I want to) as I’m not prepared to risk my families security for the sake of my dreams and ambitions. Why should they suffer IF it were to go horribly wrong? Those in the “guru business IM world” that espouse the ideology of “burning your boats and making it work”, i.e. give up your day job so that if you don’t succeed, you won’t be able to eat or keep a roof over your head or pay the bills etc which literally FORCES you to succeed, are plain wrong. Might work with some people, but not for most. Does that make us bad or poor entrepreneurs or business people. NO! We’re sensible. BUT, as you write so clearly, consult alongside your day job UNTIL the consulting work is more than the day job, THEN give up the day job (if you want to that is!).
So please keep writing posts about this topic and give your readers practical hints and tips on the best way to do it or the best resources from which to learn how to break into this market. Remember here in the UK we are in a deep recession so there is a barrier from the start in terms of winning over small businesses and hiring us for such work.
I would be very interested in knowing how to charge for such work. What’s it worth? How do you strike a deal that’s win-win for both me as a consultant and the business as the client?
Please continue Andy……
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The URL you should follow if you want to read more about Andy’s original post and follow the comments is below:
http://www.andyjenkinsblog.com/2009/10/22/rant-consulting-is-a-bad-business/#comment-1667