The Successful Landlord Blog

Ok, so this kind of going to be a rant but anyway, here you go. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had aquired the domain name LANDLORDSUCCESS.COM (without the hyphen) and I was all exited about it.

Well, how I aquired it was I bought it from someone who had registered it as soon as it was deleted from the internet registry. The person who registered parked it ar Sedo.com who puts up a landing page full of ads and a “for sale” link.

The trauma that ensued after I bought it was incredible. Basically there were about 5-8 phone calls to both Sedo.com & 1and1.com (my registrar). Then finally I received an email from 1and1.com saying that the new domain was ready.

I have NO IDEA why this transfer took 2 weeks when I can register a domain and have a web site up on my web server in 4 hours. Anyway, LANDLORDSUCCESS.COM is now active.

Today I came acorss a most excellent lock system which is PERFECT for landlords. The blog post about it was written by Anesia Springborn over at TheLandlordBlog.com.

Basically, this system allows you (as a landlord) to carry only one master key with you which will get you into ANY of your units. From the demo, it looks like it would take a few seconds to change out the lock or gain access. If you need to change the locks after a tenant moves out, simply insert another cylinder which has its own key.

Simply AMAZING! In the future we will be buying our locksets from LandlordLocks.com. Finally! I just knew there was a better way to deal with the lock situation.

So, I recently ran upon this article about the National Association of Realtors (NAR) who say that they are planning to spend up to $43 million to raise public awareness that, and get this, now is the time to buy a house.

Ok, regardless of the fact that IT IS a good time to buy a house due to low interest rates and large housing inventories, in my opinion there is no need to advertise. It seems to me that NAR thinks that the housing market is akin to the grocery store checkout isle.

I could be wrong but buying a house is typically not an impulse buy for the general population. I guess that the National Association of Realtors needs to justify their existence somehow and this is their way of doing that.