Update! Appliance Research: Chest Freezers
March 9, 2010 – 9:48 am | Comments Off on Update! Appliance Research: Chest Freezers

The decision (and purchase) has been made! In an earlier post (“Appliance Upgrade Research: Chest Freezers”), I checked to see if the chest freezers listed on the EnergyStar site were still offered by each of the manufacturers

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Apartment Advertising Online
March 22, 2008 – 2:17 pm | One Comment
Apartment Advertising Online

For me, developing an online portal has been a gradual process of evolution. Layout creation/modification, images, additional description pages, content, links and promoting the site have taken more than a year of taking 20-30 minutes …

New Tenants – Thanks to Microsoft, The LPA and Craigslist
December 19, 2006 – 11:48 pm | One Comment
New Tenants – Thanks to Microsoft, The LPA and Craigslist

The following is a work in progress and will eventually be divided up into more detailed chunks, but for now here goes:
While not as easy as using a broker, taking a hands on approach to marketing …

Small Time Landlord: Featured blog for "Technical Difficulties"
July 3, 2006 – 12:07 am | Comments Off on Small Time Landlord: Featured blog for "Technical Difficulties"

Yeah, I laughed =)
Link: WordPress.com — Tag: Technical Difficulties
While combing through the rest of the tags out there, I came across the Tenant Screening Blog that has some great tips.
Technorati Tags: Education | Rental | …

Residential Building Registration With A Click
May 28, 2006 – 3:31 am | Comments Off on Residential Building Registration With A Click

HPD’s Website Introduces Online Registration Assistance
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has launched a new website feature to make property registration for residential building owners much simpler and easier. Through …

PlanNYC: new website from the Furman Center
March 14, 2006 – 1:43 pm | One Comment

Received via email this afternoon: Announcing a new website from the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at NYU. PlanNYC, available at www.plannyc.org, is a web-based tool to give citizens and organizations interested in …

Software for small time landlording
March 1, 2006 – 5:49 pm | Comments Off on Software for small time landlording

Just picked up Quicken Rental Property Manager from amazon.com (next to EBay the lowest price I could find) in order to hopefully break away from the excel sheet I’ve been using to track expenses.
Haven’t installed …

Homes for sale: $1
January 19, 2006 – 8:23 pm | One Comment

Meg at Flip or Rent posted a link to an MSN/Bankrate story earlier on this month focusing on HistoricProperties.com. Granted if I missed the post title “Homes for sale for a Buck” I might have …