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The LPA Newsletter
February 26, 2013
Dear Fellow Landlord,
Most of you already know my good friend, Dani Babb, fellow landlord, LPA member and popular TV commentator / Real Estate Expert and author of business books including, "The Accidental Landlord" and more recently, "The Adult Student ".
Well, The Babb Group’s new REPreferred is a revolutionary new method of coaching in investing, selling and successfully renting Real Estate! I'm very happy to be a part of it!
Personally, I've spent thousands of dollars on Real Estate seminars over the years only to realize that there was still a missing component I needed to make it all come together. I've gone to seminars and boot camps, but most had two things in common:
1. They were expensive.
2. When they were over, they were over.
Imagine having constant personal access to your seminar coaches for the length of your REPreferred membership!
The Babb Group’s new REPreferred is a revolutionary new method of coaching for investing, selling and successfully renting Real Estate! Read more about it below!
In this issue:
- Introducing REPreferred
- Got a Tenant Finder? Free Essential Form
- Ask the Attorney, Real Estate Attorney, John Reno
- Tenant Excuse of the Week
Please e-mail us if you have any questions or would like to add or share any material / information.
John Nuzzolese
John@theLPA.com
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The Babb Group and The Landlord Protection Agency have teamed up to provide you with a new service - REPreferred, a premier, subscription-based service to provide you with real-time advice on the markets, analysis of reports, listings of properties that are not on the MLS (commonly referred to as pocket listings) as we get them, introductions to others in the industry, landlord forms and advice from the Landlord Protection Agency, VIP-access to our team and other experts, HYPERnetworking with other people interested in real estate, daily challenges, and techniques to position yourself for long-term investment in real estate.
Our goal with this Elite forum is to provide you with insights, information, and specific daily instruction and participation that directly relates to your interest in real estate whether it be investing, being a landlord, buying or selling a home – including one on one coaching and a highly participatory group!
Have you wondered:
- What areas experts think you should buy in?
- What the real estate market is looking like to professionals behind the scenes?
- What areas to buy investment property in where rents are increasing?
- Which markets are buyers or sellers markets?
- What the rules are for your state if you choose to rent out your home?
- What banks are offering different types of loan options?
- How the heck do you find listings not yet on the MLS to try to negotiate a better price and not enter a bidding war?
- How you can become quoted in articles and publications on real estate so others look to you for advice?
How to meet other people who do what you do in real estate?
Do you want:
- Daily challenges that will help you become more connected with others in real estate?
- Media leads so you can be quoted in major publications?
- To know who else has similar interests as you in real estate?
- Access to exclusive videos from Dani Babb and other real estate experts?
- One-on-one access to Dani and other group members via the private Facebook forum?
- A super secure, completely locked down group that you can feel safe participating in?
- Assurance that anyone who shares information will be removed from the group?
- Guidance every day so you know how to build your online toolset and find new investment ideas and strategies?
- To know what the heck Kred and Klout are and how to get started?
- To know how to kick out a tenant who isn’t paying while minimizing the risk that you are breaking your local or state laws?
- To unlock secrets not many people know about real estate and investing?
- Daily challenges that encourage reciprocity for helping others reach your individual goals?
- Exclusive video content that is completely private?
- Real estate listings that aren’t on the MLS, giving you a better chance to compete for the purchase at a lower price point?
To know what real estate experts really see is going on in the market, and not just what you hear about on the news?
We offer the ability to participate HYPERnetworking where each member is committed to helping other members achieve their goals!
Click here for the full article.
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Got a Tenant Finder?
"It is far better to have no tenant than to have a bad tenant."
I'd been asked to create a pre-screening form to help landlords ask the right questions on the telephone that will help determine if the caller is someone qualified to set an appointment to show your rental to. The LPA's new Tenant-Finder™ Pre-Screening Telephone Worksheet has developed from a simple prospect card into a handy and more complete screening tool for telephone interviews.
Have you ever met prospective tenants at your rental property, shown it to them, had them fill out a rental application only to find that they were nowhere near qualified? A simple pre-screening telephone interview can be a major time saver. Why not focus your attention on the most qualified prospects?
Before giving out the address of your rental property and committing your time to a doomed appointment with an unqualified renter, you have a chance to more carefully evaluate which prospects are worth meeting with.
I feel very strongly about strict tenant screening, which begins at First Contact with the tenant. First Contact is when you speak with the potential tenant for the first time, usually when they respond to one of your rental ads. At that point, you have the opportunity to learn what you can about this person's current situation. Are they employed? Can they afford your rental? Do their moving dates correspond with your rental's availability? Is their credit rating acceptable? And so on.
After completing your Tenant-Finder™ Pre-Screening Telephone Worksheet, you can use the scoring area to evaluate your new prospect. Print up a pile of them to screen your next tenant!
Eliminate bad tenant risks before spending your valuable time on them.
"Eliminating a bad tenant before I even have to meet him is what I consider the cheapest eviction I can have!" - John@theLPA
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Ask the Attorney
 The Landlord Protection Agency® presents John Reno, Esq., a highly experienced Landlord - Tenant attorney based on Long Island, NY.
John Reno also does Mortgage Loan Modifications (Nationwide).
(Mention The LPA for a 10% discount!)
Dear Mr. Reno:
A non-payment suit was filed against the tenant, who has not paid for last two months. She walks away, abandoning the property, causing mass destruction making the property uninhabitable. What’s my recourse? Can I file a criminal suit? Should I pursue the non-payment case filed in Landlord Tenancy court? Can I claim the back rent, without the court order? Can I file a claim in the Small Cause Claim court without a court order? The tenant has exhausted her security deposit..how can I make a claim against the damages she has caused? I have several pictures taken, to witness the damages? Thank you,
Leena Dsouza
A: The answer is.. small claims Court.
If you have a landlord tenant problem you'd like to ask a question about, please feel free to e-mail me your question.
Submit a landlord / tenant question for Mr. Reno
Please try to keep your questions as short and to the point as possible.
Read more from John Reno, Eviction Attorney
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Excuse of the Week
"Please just pretend that I'm up to date with the rent. My young daughter would be so disappointed if she knew I couldn't pay the bills." - What a load of $#!T. I almost felt sorry for him. Then I remembered I was facing foreclosure because this piece of garbage wasn't paying his rent and had been stringing me along for about a year. I evicted him. His wife and daughter left him. And then after another year of collection and excuses, I finally seized his wife's savings account to settle matters. - John, NY
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This offer also applies to LPA membership renewals!
Having all the forms all on disk is a handy time saving convenience.
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Did You Know...?
If you ordered any LPA forms in the past 60 days, the LPA will credit back to you the cost of those orders when you email us your new LPA Membership order #.
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LPA Membership Expiring?
Take Advantage of the Renewal Prices!
How to Check your LPA Membership Expiration Date:
- Be logged in with your LPA username & password
- On the "Main Menu" (top right), click on "Your Orders" (right below your name)
- The beginning date of your membership will be listed to the left of your membership order # in this format: YYYYMMDD
*Your Membership Expired? No Problem!
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If you haven't already, please take the opportunity to sign up for The LPA's Quick Check Credit Reports! Quick Check is a simple, fast way to access online credit reports while saving you money!
- NO sign-up or set-up fees,
- NO membership fees,
- NO compliance fees
- Just lower prices!
Special Tenant Screening Discounts for LPA members.
See our price list!
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FREE LPA Gift with Book Purchase! 
Fellow LPA Member, Dr. Danielle Babb is a national real estate expert and author of the new Landlording Book, "The Accidental Landlord".
Get your copy now... with a FREE BONUS! from theLPA.com
Not only is Danielle Babb one of our county's most knowledgeable real estate analysts, she also shares excellent landlord information and advice in her book, "The Accidental Landlord". Plus she's a super nice person! - John Nuzzolese
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New Landlord Tenant Screening Book!
Foreword by John Nuzzolese
 Tenant Screening Toolkit, By Kim Herbel
One of the most important elements of being successful as a landlord is the practice of proper tenant screening. As a landlord herself, Kim Herbel has learned and mastered the art of qualifying good tenant prospects and eliminating bad ones. The book supplies helpful forms and links to fully prepare the reader with everything needed to screen a tenant. By screening carefully, you will find why I always say, "95% of tenant problems can be eliminated in the screening process!" ... and Thank you Kim, for the opportunity to write the foreward in your book! -John Nuzzolese, President of The Landlord Protection Agency
Kim offers a special 10% off discount coupon code for LPA members and guests, in the book checkout process! Use coupon code: "LPA."
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