Thursday, August 26, 2010

Managing your real estate portfolio

Managing only one unit is not a big deal, it only requires few hours of your time per month. Collecting the rent, doing small repairs etd. - almost anybody can do it. But most of the investors do not stop with one unit, they expand their business and soon it becomes impossible to have control over all properties owned.

That's the main reasons why some of the investors fail. They become to busi to maintain their rental properties and tenants are not statisfied with the service and they stop paying their rent. Because one man can not deal with so many tenants it leads to financal collaps.

To avoid it you should hire the professional real estate manager before it is too late. It will cost you about 10% of monthly rent but on the long term he can save you tons of money. Manager will take care of maintainance, collecting rents and sometimes looking for new tenants.

Saturday, August 07, 2010

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is a mid-sized city with 280,000 inhabitants. It is the biggest city of Slovenia and also a capital city. It is located in strategical location on cross of all main road and railway connections in the region, just few kilometers from international airport Joze Pucnik in Brnik.

City with growing economy attracts many successful businessmen from all over the world. You should also visit Ljubljana is you are passionate golf traveler. There is modern golf course in Trnovo where you don't even need license to play, and worldwide known golf courses in Bled, Lipica...

Tourists in Ljubljana should visit Ljubljana castle, Tromostovje, Preseren square, Dragon bridge, park Tivoli... For sport fans there is a legendary stadium build by Slovenia's most famous architect Plecnik and also a new stadium under construction in Sozice.

No matter what is the purpose of your stay, you will easily find a good accommodation in Ljubljana hotel.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Investing in real estate

Investing in real estate in good alternative to your 9 to 5 job if you have a start-up capital or you have a source to get it. The main benefit of property investing is good profit which can also become a pasive income - that means you are making money even when you are on holidays or sleeping.

Looking for a real estate investing opportunity? Check out real estate Slovenia.

You have to be familiar with the local market before investing in it. Is there high demand on small offices for rent? Buy a big office and re-do it into smaller units and rent them. Is there lots of luxury properties on the market but lack of demand because of weak advertising? You can negotiate a good price with the seller and than try to attract buyer from other town and sell him a property for more....

You have to extra careful with selection of market your are going to invest in. Region should be policitaly stable, economy should be growing and it should have low crime rate.