This is the Rental Income Podcast, where we talk to owners of rental properties and give you actionable tips and advice that would help you make more money while dealing with less hassle.

And now your host, Dan Lane.

I put together a list of seven things I wish I knew earlier about renting properties.

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landlordgift.com on the show today we have john malletested john owns three rental properties

and he's also a full-time professional property manager he's going to tell us about the top five

pitfalls that can get rental property owners in trouble.

So I'm really excited to hear what they are.

So, John, why don't we start with you telling us a little bit about yourself and how you got started in real estate?

I really got started in real estate after I got out of the military.

I didn't really know where I wanted to go.

So I started investing in real

estate with a partner, my father, actually, at the time, and did really well. We did

quite a few residential flipping. And that was back in 2005, 2006, so we had good heydays.

But then everything kind of went south, so I needed to figure out what else I could do.

Still always wanted to be investing, but I did have to take more or less a normal job.

But I still was investor because I still had my rental portfolio.

And after 2010-2012 time frame, I was overseas.

And after I got done with that, I definitely wanted to get back into investing in one way that I knew very easily is to manage properties. So that's kind of where the idea came to open up a property management business for other people. And it's been fun and

haven't looked back since. Today on the podcast, I want to talk about the top five pitfalls that can

get a rental property owner in trouble.

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