Buying Rental Property - Open Your Family Business

By Kevin Ierardi


Buying rental property is a good idea on any market at any time. If you buy a property that generates an income for you then you have made a smart choice. Now there is a potentially smarter choice you could make with your rental property. You could turn it into a business that generates more income and gives you more financial independence.

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 first thing on your list after figuring out which market you want to buy a rental property in is to create a budget plan. You should know well in advance though that business isn't fantasy, so you can't expect a flurry of customers in your first day or your first month or your first year even. So you need to have liquid funds to keep running your business until your marketing plan pays off and the business starts generating profit.

In some cases it takes 5-6 years or even up to 10 years for businesses to break even. Then the question might come to your mind that why should you open a business in the first place. The answer is simple - you can't sit around with your money and do nothing because it will keep decreasing. But if you invest in a business, you will have a constant inflow of revenue and your asset value will keep increasing as well.

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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