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Income property can have very stable, respectful and reliable tenants. Kansas City, MO

02-09-10
Alf Gizzo
Alf Gizzo: Real Estate Trainer in Evergreen, CO

Income property can have very stable, respectful and reliable tenants. Kansas City, MO

Yes, that’s correct! It all depends on product, location and first rate tenant screening. If you don’t have all three, your vacancy rate will be too high. Let’s talk about product first. We advise our students that they furnish their properties with clean functional items, new linens and art work on the walls. What you are creating is an environment that is very pleasing to the tenant, one that not only the tenant will look forward to coming home to, but also one, through pictures on flyers, web sites and word of mouth, will draw new inquires. We are all for building and keeping a pipeline.

Many furnished rooms for rent are not clean and contain aged, thread bear chairs, sofas, and soiled mattresses. Would you want to stay any longer than you had to in a place that does not support a healthy sense of self-esteem? Nicely furnished rooms engender good paying tenants, who stay for long periods.

Our favored tenant populations generally do not have their own transportation so proximity to public transportation is necessity.

Key to this equation within our system is good tenant screening, which oddly enough doesn’t include credit or traditional background checks. Our tenants are referred to us, so we learn about them and their history though direct questioning of people who are familiar with each possible tenant individually. We learn of personal background information and work experience. This type of screening done methodically will produce good paying renters who stay for long periods creating a stable house.

To learn more about setting up transitional housing, please download our free Ebook from the side bar on our main blog site.

Don't hesitate to contact us with questions. Learn about us. Learn our system. Learn what others have to say about us and our system.

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Speechless Sunday in Kansas City 11

02-07-10
Maria Morton
Maria Morton: Real Estate Agent in Kansas City, MO

Speechless Sunday in Kansas City 11

Audience at Abbey Road performance

Audience at Abbey Road Beatles Tribute Band performance in Waldo yesterday.

Speechless Sunday in Kansas City 11

02-07-10
Maria Morton
Maria Morton: Real Estate Agent in Kansas City, MO

Speechless Sunday in Kansas City 11

Audience at Abbey Road performance

Audience at Abbey Road Beatles Tribute Band performance in Waldo yesterday.

Abbey Road Band Rocks Waldo Fundraiser in Kansas City

02-06-10
Maria Morton
Maria Morton: Real Estate Agent in Kansas City, MO

Abbey Road Band Rocks Waldo Fundraiser in Kansas City

The "Ignite Courage Extinguish Fear" event to combat the Waldo rapist was a huge success! More than 200 people showed up during the first hour. That's $2,000 towards the reward money to capture the Waldo rapist - raised in one hour! - and the event lasted 3 hours! Kennedy's was absolutely packed with people from all over Kansas City who want to see the crime in our neighborhoods stopped. Especially this violent rapist that has been terrorizing the Waldo neighborhood.

abbey road beatles tribute band

Abbey Road Beatles Tribute Band rocked the house with their performance of every Beatles song you ever loved. The Audience sang along to A Hard Day's Night, Anytime At All, Taxman and all the songs we know so well.

Audience at Abbey Road performance

One Beatles song, All Together Now, perfectly expressed the feeling of the crowd that turned out in support of the Waldo community.

Audience at Abbey Road performance

The Kansas City Missouri Police Department Detective in charge of the TIPS Hotline, Kevin Boehm, spoke to Detective Kevin Boehm us during Abbey Road's first break. He said that the Hotline has received hundreds of leads about this rapist. Some of the leads have included photos and, although he could not be specific, he indicated that the detectives working this case are very encouraged by a couple of the leads.

Any little thing you may know, or have noticed, can be a clue when added to all the other pieces the detectives have gathered. Please don't hesitate to call with any thing you think may be related, no matter how insignificant you think it is; it may be a bit the detectives can use to complete their whole picture.

The rapist is described as a bald black man, 6 feet tall, 250 pounds with pockmarks on his cheeks very muchrapist like acne scars. One victim related that the rapist has bad breath and his clothes carry an odor of exhaust fumes. My immediate thought when I read that was that he might work on cars but I have since learned that this could also be indicative of "huffing", or inhaling chemical vapors to "get high".

If you have any information on this person, please call 816.474.8477 - TIPS HOTLINE.

Or you can enter Tips at http://kccrimestoppers.com

Or Text "TIP452 plus your message" to 274637.

Police Detective

The following businesses contributed food, drink, space, time and music to the Ignite Courage Extinguish Fear event held at Kennedy's Bar & Grill in the Waldo neighborhood of Kansas City:

Abbey Road

Samuel Adams

Almar Printing

BB's Lawnside BBQ

Boulevard Brewing Company

Brown & Sonsabbey road beatles tribute band

Classic Cookie

Jargon Wine

KC Metro Crime Commission

Kansas City MO Police Department

Kennedy's Bar & Grill

KMBC Channel 9

Steve Levine at Levine Advertising

Planet Sub

Roma Bakery

Syllis Shirt

UMB BankAudience at Abbey Road performance

United Beverages

Waldo Pizza

Yellow Tail Wine

Thanks to everyone who came out to support our Kansas City community of Waldo. Together, we will stop this rapist.

Crime can happen anywhere but by joining together, we can stop crime. Once we get the rapist off the streets, let's get together and stop the robberies and burglaries in Kansas City.


Two minute video of Abbey Road playing at Kennedy's in Waldo. This was taken at the beginning, when the crowd was thin, later it was impossible to film or separate the sound of the music from the crowd.