Friday, March 6, 2009

Rental Property Management

Some day I am going to rent out my condo. I sure wish I could do that now. I would love to buy a house in this economy, since the prices are so good. But like everyone else, I am financially challenged. But my goal is to buy a house and rent out my condo. I shouldn't have a problem renting, since my property is in a real hot part of town. Most units in my building are sold or rented within a couple of days of listing. But of course that was then; this is now! But part of success, I think is finding a management company that can help you with the details: advertising, leasing, rentals, showings, and even evictions if necessary. You want a management company that is knowledgeable about the industry and knows how to take care of problems in a hurry.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

File Extension Help

There are more and more opportunities to work at home or from your computer, wherever that may be. And because of these increased remote employment opportunities, it is important to be able to share and exchange documents and other information. I have had trouble in the past opening up documents others have sent me. This can be a problem when you are on deadline for a writing or mystery shopping assignment, and you can't open the instructions or the forms you need to fill out! A lot of times, I have to email them back and ask them to resend in a differnet format. That gets old and is a time waster. I have found a file extension site that can help with this problem. It has all kinds of good info on how to open files. When I was in school, I also received a lot of information on power point slides. Sometimes, it took me a long time to figure out how to open them. Some sites offer pps information.