Jeff Rohde, writing under the pen name Jefrey Roark, is the author of several books on real estate investing and property management - The Real Estate Property Management Guide, Investment Real Estate Analysis: A Case Study, and How To Find & Keep Great Tenants.
His newest book, How To Make Money In Property Management, is written for both real estate brokers and investors. For real estate brokers you will learn how to structure your property management fees and create additional services to maximize your income and to keep your business growing year after year. For real estate investors you will learn the legitimate ways that property management companies make money through the services they provide. You will also ready about three sneaky ways that some property management companies cheat their clients and how to catch these tricks before it is too late.
Here's a summary of the book in Jeffrey Roark's own words:
"In How To Make Money In Property Management we start by covering some of the common methods of how property management companies make money and how to structure those programs, basic things like property management fees, leasing fees, brokerage fees, project management fees, and how offering a full-service solution to property owners and real estate investors can potentially make you a lot of money. After that we will discuss three sneaky, some might argue unethical or even illegal, ways that property management companies rip off their clients, intentionally leaving the property under management in shambles and quite possibly sending the owner of the property into bankruptcy!
"As the author of several best selling books on real estate investing and property management - The Real Estate Property Management Guide, Investment Real Estate Analysis: A Case Study, and How To Find & Keep Great Tenants - please keep in mind as you read this book that I do not know you and you do not know me. By this I mean that the topics covered here are meant to be intentionally general in nature, and not specific to you, your real estate business and investments, or the market that you operate in. Rather they are meant to offer some macro guidelines, give you some ideas on how to start or generate more revenue for your business, and if you are a real estate investor, give you a few different ways that unethical property management companies can rip you off without you even knowing it.
