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Blog Post Five Areas of Focus That You Can Yield the Results You Want in Your Property Management Business

Five Areas of Focus That You Can Yield the Results You Want in Your Property Management Business

Focus on what you can produce and cause, not what you can’t control. This is such an important reminder that you’ve got to work on the areas that you can control. Sometimes it is easy to get distracted by what is happening in the news or any other curre...
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Blog Post Making More Out of Your Property Management Business

Making More Out of Your Property Management Business

The difference between those who have a great property management business and those who have a mediocre property management business lies in planning, systems, and implementation.  At the heart of these issues is focus. When you can stay focused and be consistent in the dai...
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Blog Post Persevere and Ignore the Naysayers

Persevere and Ignore the Naysayers

One characteristic that all successful entrepreneurs have is the ability to persevere, and ignore the naysayers who criticize, mock, and doubt what they have set out to accomplish. These individuals have made the conscious choice to ignore this criticism and they choose to persev...
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Blog Post Know Where You Want to Go in Your Business

Know Where You Want to Go in Your Business

I have had numerous conversations with entrepreneurs over the years about their goals and whether they know where they want to go in the next year, three years, five years and beyond. I recently talked with one entrepreneur at length about her business goals and what she wanted t...
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Blog Post 5 Suggestions for Better Problem Solving

5 Suggestions for Better Problem Solving

Problem solving skills can be useful for anyone, but are particularly useful for property management professionals. Property managers experience big challenges in their businesses. Some of these problems can keep you up late at night worrying about what to do. The reality is that...
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Blog Post Priorities for your Property Management Business

Priorities for your Property Management Business

The difference between financial success and mediocrity in any business is action and implementation. There is power in taking action. All of us know more than we do. As General H. Norman Schwarzkopf once observed, “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right ...
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Blog Post The Importance of Long Term Vision

The Importance of Long Term Vision

I talk with a lot of individuals every day about property management and entrepreneurship. One thing that really stands out to me as I talk to people is the difference between those who have long term vision and those who are short-sighted and only look at the here and now. Those...
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Blog Post Innovate to Improve

Innovate to Improve

To innovate is to, fundamentally, make change. I recently read a statement by author Marshall Goldsmith that outlines why most people don’t succeed at what they set out to do in life.  He says:“As much as we all claim to want happiness and meaning in our lives (v...
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Blog Post Process Training for Business Improvement

Process Training for Business Improvement

There is a big difference between a property manager who views training as an event and one who sees it as a process. Event leaders believe that sales skills can be developed in a day or with a single training session. Process leaders know that skills are developed daily, not in ...
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Blog Post Taking Action and Building Value

Taking Action and Building Value

Building value is imperative for any service offering. A fascinating book about dealing with the challenges of business and life by Mark Sanborn entitled Up, Down, or Sideways is one that I would highly recommend you read, study and think about. The book is broken into ...
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