The Successful Landlord Blog

Today Landlord-Success.com is 3-years-old! Yay for us! It’s been a hard road sometimes what with the crazy, criminal and just plain dumb tenants, contractors who act like they really shouldn’t be in business, municipalities who behave like they’re trying to lock you into a payment plan and service providers who like to throw their weight around (enabled by the city governments.)

On the other hand, I’ve met (online only but in-person hopefully soon) some really cool people. There’s Clifford who is a web entrepreneur and recovering software engineer like me, Jessica who is THE model for any Realtor or property manager thinking about joining the 21st century and a few other landlords who are in the same boat as me.

All-in-all, it’s been a fun ride which shows no sign of letting up any time soon. While we wait for the economy to dig itself out of the enormous hole it’s in, we commiserate, console and cheer each other on enabling each of us to get where we’re heading.

Thanks everyone and here’s to another three years!

Interestingly, Amazon.com recently started offering blog subscriptions on their Kindle reader device. This is potentially a great thing for both blog owners and Kindle users but there is one drawback as I see it. Amazon will be charging for access to blog content which is otherwise free on the internet. I’m not sure how successful this effort will be especially if some other company (Sony maybe?) comes out with their own reader that does this for free.

For now, if you have a Kindle and are so inclined, you will be able to read Landlord-Success.com on it. Here’s a link showing the Landlord-Success.com for Kindle product page on Amazon.com.

I feel the need to apologize for not posting as much as I should here on Landlord-Success.com. Recently, I moved a bunch of my web sites to a new virtual private server (VPS) and have been super busy in setting them up and making sure everything works properly.

The company I used for this is called Liquid Web and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed so far. Their support is great and their staff must have an unbelievable amount of patience for seemingly stupid questions.

I mean, I wouldn’t consider myself a novice computer user by any stretch but the administration method I was using before consisted of editing all configuration files by hand and/or writing shell scripts to handle routine tasks.

The new server environment is entirely menu-driven and super easy to use. Hopefully now I’ll have more time to work on posting more. Thanks for your patience! Stay tuned!

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you’re not supposed to make posts like this but here goes anyway. Sorry for not posting lately but… I’ve just got a few unrelated things to relate today and they’re all so small that I thought one post should do it:

First, I recently moved Landlord-Success.com to a new web host due to the S-C-A-R-Y weather we’ve been having here (read more in the next item.) I had been hosting it out of my own little data center here in the house but no more. So, if anyone sees anything that doesn’t work or looks weird, please feel free to let me know. Much thanks. Read the rest of this entry »