One might think that a guy with his own web hosting business would own a top-of-the-line cell hone. One would be wrong. I have no cell phone to test this web site on, so I am at the mercy of the program which is creating the mobile version of DFWREIN.

If you have a mobile phone with a browser, please check the dfwrein.info web site and let me know how it looks. Just leave a reply to this message.

Thank you.

I was a little scared about the Google page rank. It fell off for a while because all our external links were going to the old web site (dfwrein.com).

When I made dfwrein.info the home page I was afraid I’d lose the Google page rank and for a short while it looks like I did. Now we are back to 2/10.

At one time we were up to 4/10. We’ll get there again. I hope it won’t take the same 4 years though. I’m impatient like that.

As some may know I have been kind of all over the road since I hi-jacked this web site from Cliff. One day it’s not a club. The next day it is a club. You may feel like a Yo-Yo. After brainstorming proved fruitless I did the next best thing. I ignored the web site for a few days. I find that is a great way of solving problems.

It allows me to focus on other important tasks and it helps me come up with many out-of-the-box solutions which I don’t think I would come up with if I just stared at the problem all day.

So, the new direction is this web site will be a directory of resources for real estate investors. It will cater to those investors living in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, but it will contain many resources for all real estate investors. This helps me to focus on subjects that are important to the niche and it helps you figure out what we have assemble here and what we have not.

Look for some changes in the site layout to make it easier to get to the stuff that interests you most and for additional content of interest to real estate investors.

This post doesn’t really have a point. I just need to vent a little.

The Real Estate Investment Gurus never seem to mention the property management side of landlording. They will extol the virtues of the Buy & Hold strategy, but they tend to gleam over the time you will spend mowing the lawn. Don’t get me wrong. I like mowing the lawn. I pay a service to weed eat around homes and I do the mowing sitting down. The problem with mowing is the repairs.

I spend almost as much time under the mower (or without a mower) as I do actually mowing. Or at least that is the way it seems. So far this year I have spent more than $1000 getting the mowers up and running and right now they are both out of commission. I can pay the weed eater guys to mow, but that’s an extra $150 each time they mow. I mow more often than I trim weeds.

The mower just broke and I am really not in the mood to repair it again. I know exactly what is wrong with it and how cumbersome the repair is, but I have like zero energy to do the repair. It’s $32 in parts and about 2 hours of my time in the hot sun. It’s a two person repair, so I’ll get to it in the morning.

Please share any unpleasant (or pleasant) memories of landlording you have in a reply.

Whenever I add something new to this web site I noticed a small spike in the number of page impressions. I spend the rare times I am not at the keyboard thinking of things to write which wil generate more interest, more traffic and ultimately more income. I thought about paying a ghost writer to write some articles on topics of interest to Real Estate Investors, but it later occurred to me that there are already a lot of articles like that on the Web.

So, it occurred to me that I could write a search engine to help real estate investors to find articles. Then I thought, hey, I could help people keep track of which articles they read as well. Then you could read everything about rehabbing without rereading several articles or wading through ads for courses on rehabbing. Of course, if you wanted to see all the courses, I could include that as well.

So, this is an announcement for a new service for real estate investors which should allow them to find a lot of pertinent articles and to keep track of them in one place. Watch the comments to this post for service details.