Information for Property Owners of Rental Housing, Child-Occupied Facilities

Property owners who renovate, repair, or prepare surfaces for painting in pre-1978 rental housing or space rented by child-care facilities must, before beginning work, provide tenants with a copy of EPA’s lead hazard information pamphlet Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools Owners of these rental properties must document compliance with this requirement After April 22, 2010, property owners who perform these projects in pre-1978 rental housing or space rented by child-care facilities must be certified and must follow the lead-safe work practices required by EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Remodeling rule.

To become certified, property owners must submit an application for firm certification and fee payment to EPA. EPA began processing applications on October 22, 2009. The Agency has up to 90 days after receiving a complete request for certification to approve or disapprove the application.

Property owners who perform renovation, repairs, and painting jobs in rental property should also:

• Take training to learn how to perform lead-safe work practices.
• Learn the lead laws that apply to you regarding certification and lead-safe work practices beginning April 22, 2010.
• Keep records to demonstrate that you and your workers have been trained in lead-safe work practices and that you follow lead-safe work practices on the job. Read about how to comply with EPA’s rule in the EPA Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right

Information for Tenants and Families of Children under Age 6 in Child Care Facilities and Schools

As a tenant or a parent or guardian of children in a child care facility or school, you should know your rights when a renovation job is performed in your home, or in the child care facility or school that your child attends.

• Before starting a renovation in residential buildings built before 1978, the contractor or property owner is required to have tenants sign a pre-renovation disclosure form (PDF) (1 pp, 53K), which indicates that the tenant received the Renovate Right lead hazard information pamphlet.
• Beginning in December 2008, the contractor must also make renovation information available to the parents or guardians of children under age six that attend child care facilities and schools, and to provide to owners and administrators of pre-1978 child care facilities and schools to be renovated a copy of EPA’s Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools (PDF) lead hazard information pamphlet

Who Must Follow the Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule’s Requirements?

In general, anyone who is paid to perform work that disturbs paint in housing and child-occupied facilities built before 1978, this may include, but is not limited to:

• Residential rental property owners/managers
• General contractors
• Special trade contractors, including

• Painters
• Plumbers
• Carpenters
• Electricians

What Activities Are Subject to the Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Program?

In general, any activity that disturbs paint in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities, including:

• Remodeling and repair/maintenance
• Electrical work
• Plumbing
• Painting preparation
• Carpentry
• Window replacement

What Housing or Activities Are Excluded and Not Subject to the Rule?

• Housing built in 1978 or later.
• Housing for elderly or disabled persons, unless children under 6 reside or are expected to reside there
• Zero-bedroom dwellings (studio apartments, dormitories, etc.).
• Housing or components that have been declared lead-free. Such a declaration can be made by a certified inspector or risk assessor. Also, a certified renovator may declare specific components lead-free using an EPA recognized test kit.
• Minor repair and maintenance activities that disturb 6 square feet or less of paint per room inside, or 20 square feet or less on the exterior of a home or building.
• Note: minor repair and maintenance activities do not include Window replacement and projects involving demolition or prohibited practices.

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Who is this for? It’s for wholesalers, retailers, investors that “buy and hold”, investors that do short sales, investors that lease option properties, investors who own single family homes, investors that buy multi units, and all Property Managers!!!

And whether you are an established investor, or a newbie that is just starting out, this system will instantly organize and automate your business. If you are an experienced investor that is currently using a different system, try using The 360° Real Estate Investor. See for yourself if this system will help make your business even more productive, efficient, and profitable.

If you are just embarking on a new investor business, this is the perfect time to train and to start using The 360° Real Estate Investor! You’ll find that marketing and running your business properly from the very start can save you an amazing amount of time and effort. This system will literally guide you to running your REI business the right way, which is the surest way to achieve success and profitability!

But what if you’re not used to working with computers or software programs? Well this system was designed by real estate investors, for real estate investors! It’s so easy to use, and REIA has taken many steps to provide you with multiple ways to get comfortable using this system.

Here are your various training options  as a REIA member:

1) Most weeks, new webinar training sessions are provided, and as a REIA member, you    will be invited via e-mail!

2) REIA members are provided with a special e-mail address to use for “support” questions.

3) We have included a “HELP” feature that’s built right into the system (along the top of the page). Just click on that, and a separate “HELP” icon will pop up. Once you click on the second “HELP” icon, you will see a series of training videos. Each record contains a link to a training video for the record you are currently working on. You may view a tutorial on the entire software, or you may find it easier to view and learn about one section at a time.

4) At each module, you will see a small blue hyperlink with the word “HELP”. If you aren’t sure what to do at the record you are at, click this and it will launch the training video for the exact record you are on.

5) Click on the following hyperlink:

http://www.360investing.net/content.php?id=21

This will take you to a page with a series of training videos.

We don’t necessarily recommend starting with the “Comprehensive Review” at first. It’s very long and detailed. It might be easier to start with smaller bites. Try starting with “Contacts, Companies and Contracts”. Putting your contacts, companies, and contacts into the system will help you get the system properly set up, and is a great way to start!

After this, you can start watching the other videos, (“Marketing, Deal Analysis and Prospect Management”, “Multi-Family, Lease and Mortgage Manager”, “Website Builder Comprehensive Review”, etc.).

There’s a lot to go through, so we recommend that you take your time.

Please note that from time to time, we will add more videos with more concise and completes details. You will receive an update for your system with each new release.

Just take it one module at a time, and before you know it, the system will essentially start telling you what you need to do each day!

About The 360° Real Estate Investor

The 360° Real Estate Investoris a comprehensive system that will help you perfect all of your marketing, analyzing, purchasing, rehabbing, renting, selling, and accounting responsibilities!

If you’re a new or existing member who hasn’t received this important investor tool yet, please contact our office to demand your own copy immediately

Whether you’re just starting your business, or you’ve been investing for years, a website will explain and present your business in a professional manner, giving you the credibility that is crucial to your growth. Whether you’re negotiating to buy, sell, or rent properties, or you are trying to work with banks, hard money, or private lenders, having a website is essential to presenting your business in a serious and credible way.

The truth is, in today’s world, businesses that don’t have a website are not taken seriously!

A website would also save you valuable time and effort. Without a website, investors end up spending too much time on the phone explaining their business and getting property information and details. Once you have your website up, prospective sellers, buyers, or tenants can find or be referred to the website where your business is explained and they can submit or see all the vital property information that you need!

Of course if you were to try to put your own website together, it could take months to write out the proper text, find the right pictures, and design it with the proper font and colors. And if you’re not computer savvy, it could take hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a company to do this for you.

But now, as a member of REIA, you have the opportunity to order your very own customized real estate investor website at no cost to you! That’s right, you can have your own website, customized and up and running in minutes and it won’t cost you a thing to create it!

Like all websites, your site will need to be hosted on a server, and we’ve taken care of that as well. All you’ll need to do is pay $19.95 per month (which will allow you to run 1-3 websites), and you can even save 20% on this if you pay for a year at a time.

Your website will come with professionally tested text that is rich in the “key” words needed to get your website high in the search engine rankings (so that you can be found by potential customers). All you’ll need to do is plug in your name, your business contact information, your slogan and a short description of your business, refresh your page, and your website is ready to publish!

And if you wish to change any of the text or pictures, or add a logo, you’ll receive full instructions on how to easily make these changes.

So what are you waiting for? Every day that you don’t act is another day of potentially lost opportunities. Act now, and your very own website will be up and running in minutes!

REIA has chosen to provide every current member with The 360° Real Estate Investor Software and Website Builder as a standard membership benefit. This $2500 package can be yours simply for the cost of your annual membership fee!

The 360° Real Estate Investor is a comprehensive system that will help you perfect all of your marketing, analyzing, purchasing, rehabbing, renting, selling, and accounting responsibilities!

If you’re a new or existing member who hasn’t received this important investor tool yet, please contact our office at (646) 278-6724 or visit www.reianyc.com to demand your own copy immediately!

REIA has chosen to provide every current member with The 360° Real Estate Investor Software and Website Builder as a standard membership benefit. This $2500 package can be yours simply for the cost of your annual membership fee!

The 360° Real Estate Investor is a comprehensive system that will help you perfect all of your marketing, analyzing, purchasing, rehabbing, renting, selling, and accounting responsibilities!

If you’re a new or existing member who hasn’t received this important investor tool yet, please contact our office to demand your own copy immediately!

The following on going series will highlight various capabilities of this complimentary system. This month’s article will feature:

The Marketing Module:

In order to establish and grow your REI business, you need to find the right type of properties to meet your strategy. So what are the best marketing campaigns to reach your target market? How do you know your marketing is working? How do you make sure that processes you have set up are followed even when you aren’t around?

It has been quoted, “Only 50% of my marketing is any good. I just don’t know which 50% it is.” If you are using the right system, this will never again pertain to you. The best marketing campaigns are the ones that work. It’s that simple. The right system will let you know how much each lead costs your business and which leads are converting into realrevenue. If you are trying to determine your success or failure based on a gut feeling or a hunch, you may be surprised by the actualresults.

The 360° RealEstate Investor Marketing Module will help you to set up, launch, track, and measureall of your marketing efforts. Whether you use bandit signs, e-mail blasts, direct mailings, billboards, newsletters, flyers, newspapers, realtors, websites, etc, it’s important that you are able to determine the number of leads generated by each campaign. Next, identify how many of these leads were successful, and how many were poor leads. Knowing your cost per lead will help you to match your marketing budget to the most effective campaigns.

Knowing where to spend your marketing budget is an ongoing process. You will want to implement a closed loop marketing schedule. This means that you are constantly driving new leads, capturing information, measuring results and then redeploying your budget to those campaigns that are producing the desired results. Do this over and over and you will see consistent improvement in your marketing results.

Thanks to REIA, The 360° RealEstate Investor will help you launch any type of marketing campaign while saving you money and time by automatically keeping track of your marketing budget.

We know of an investor who bought two properties from a real estate agent he found on RealtyJoin, and he made over $85,000 on the two transactions.   We also know of a real estate agent that made $6500, a home inspector who made $800, and a flooring provider who made $3000.   All these vendors made sales to clients they found on RealtyJoin.

What we like about this site especially is:

• For investors there are deals, fellow investors and hundreds of vendors in your community.
• Real estate vendors can reach out and find potential customers to do business with
• There is no fee to be a member
• There is no other site or online community dedicated to real estate that brings vendors and clients together

We are always striving to find ways to help our members succeed in today’s market.   When we learned about this “no fee” online marketplace for the real estate industry, we wanted to let you know about RealtyJoin so you can establish your profiles and build your network online before your competitors learn of this new resource.   Join today at realtyjoin.com/reia.