Property investor, REALTOR®, and business owner. Working on @ParkmanHoldings & @RedSandsPM. Fan of 🏀, still working on a jump shot. DMs are open.

PEI, Canada
Joined January 2012
Hi RE Twitter, new guy here. I’ve been watching on the sidelines for the past few months – and have learned a lot from you – but am ready to jump in. Here’s a thread about me and some of the stuff I’m up to.
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Property Managers: how are you getting your listings on Facebook Marketplace? We routinely have between 15-25 units available for rent, and Marketplace not enterprise friendly. We’ve created user profiles that get banned. Any third parties? Bonus points for Canadian solution.
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Probably a good time to ask your bank for a rate hold
BREAKING NEWS: Canada's inflation rate climbs to 7.7 per cent, largest yearly increase since January 1983.
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Last week someone made a fake notice pretending to be one of the property managers from @RedSandsPM threatening to evict anyone who leaves trash outside their door. Posted it all over the building and on people’s doors. Never boring.
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Bought this century-old Victorian home and about to list it after some minor renovations. 7 beds, 3 baths and over 3,000 square feet in #PEI, Canada. They don’t make them like this anymore
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Prior to this announcement, Airbnb’s nightly rental prices in Russia’s two biggest cities were historically low
Airbnb is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus
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Got a quote for a $22k roof replacement. Seemed high but was in a hurry so nearly signed off. Got a second quote at $14k for the same job. Be careful of those who don't want your business.
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Mortgage brokers: How does a Canadian with no US income get a mortgage in Florida without paying 10% interest?
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One of my biggest regrets over the past 24 months was wasting time and money investing in the markets and crypto. Should’ve doubled down on real estate, knowing housing supplies aren’t threatened by a pandemic, but Fortune 500’s are.
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Looks like a significant amount of water came through the ceiling at the Aventura Mall. Never seen this restoration method used before. Is this a common approach?
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1/ Reference checks rarely work. I asked our admin how many bad references she received after making roughly 75 calls. She said one. No one puts down a reference they know will give bad feedback. We keep a “bad tenant” list, and never miss an opportunity to populate it.
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/3 We also take their phone number and email address and run those in Google. Sometimes you’ll get a hit from a comment they left on Facebook with their email, for example. It gives us insight into their character. We don’t do credit, but of course that’s another good one.
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4/ There’s no surefire way to guarantee you’re getting a good tenant. It takes a lot of research in different places. Build systems, and do it every time, this way it’s second nature. In the end, some will fall through the cracks, and that’s just part of it.