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If you, like many other people, have made the decision to tutor for money, then you have made a wise choice. There is a huge market out there for tutors.

With the higher academic expectations that are being implemented from year to year in schools, there is an increasing need for tutoring. There are a couple of different choices for someone who wants to tutor. He or she can either choose to work for a company that hires tutors, or he or she can choose to start a tutoring business on his or her own.

If you really take the time to consider the pros and cons of working for someone else as a tutor for hire, or starting up your own tutoring business, it is most likely that you will see that the decision to start a tutoring business will be more beneficial for you as a business person.

First of all, if you start your own business, you can set your own hours and days that you want to work. It will be up to you. That means if you need to tutor in the afternoon, or wait until the evening, or even offer tutoring on the weekends.

Next, the potential start up costs of a tutoring business are very low compared to the start up cost of other small or home based businesses.

In addition, all the money that you make from tutoring will be yours if you own your own tutoring business. When you work for someone else, they keep part of the profits. However, if you own the business, you can charge what you want, which is an average of $30-50 dollars per hour, and make much more money than you would working for someone else.

Deciding to start a tutoring business is also beneficial when it comes to taxes. There are special tax benefits for small business owners. Speak with your tax professional to learn more.

Last, but certainly not least, when you make the decision to start a tutoring business, you are embarking on a journey that is very rewarding.

Important Planning Steps

When you are about to start off in a new business venture such as your own tutoring business you can get all excited about the idea but forget to take some planning steps. These planning steps are critical to your success.

The first step should be developing your tutoring business plan. With a strong plan in place you are much more likely to be successful. However, you do not need to create a plan from scratch. With the available resources online you can quickly an easily find the assistance to get yourself started.

For example, by using business plan templates you can be sure that you cover all the areas needed in your plan. If you follow the steps you can create your business with very little start up capital, develop your business in a way that works for you and be able to effectively market your new company.

With their guidelines and steps you are able to quickly and easily get your business up and running. As any start up business owner will tell you, getting your business to make you money is the payoff for developing a good business plan and then executing on it.

Tim Heeter is the author and creator of How To Build A Tutoring Business, a 24-week training course teaching how to build a tutoring business step-by-step. Read more articles on starting a tutoring business at Build-A-Tutoring-Business.com

Your approach when buying a multifamily property should be to only buy properties that will cash flow. You want to be able to pay for them and leave some cash at the end of the day. As a buyer, you want the cap rate to be greater than the prevailing interest rate plus 2%. Cash flow is what is paid after the NOI minus the debt service.

For example: You purchase a 10-unit property for $220,000. The NOI is $27,000 per year. The debt service is $22,000 per year (this is principle and interest payment).
So you will take $27,000 and subtract $22,000 and you will have $5,000 per year as your cash flow. That’s not a great cash flow but in this deal there is no cash out of your pocket.

In order to determine your cash flow, you need to keep in mind the cap rate. Your minimum cap rate needs to be greater than 9%. If you follow that rule, then your property will cash flow. If it costs 7% to buy the property and the property returns 9% or more, then there is enough to pay the interest and principle of the loan. The property has enough to pay itself.

You should use 10% as your minimum cap rate. If the interest rate were to go down then that 10% rule would change. The market cap rate would change if the interest rate changed drastically. So your formula for determining cash flow is: Loan interest rate + 2%.

The reason you need to have a 2% buffer is that you want to have a principle and interest payment. Some of the payment is going to interest and some of it is going to principle. The principle is paying down your equity, but from a cash flow standpoint you want to make sure there is money leftover. The more buffer you have the more money you are going to make.

There are people who buy at lower cap rates but they buy on the basis of appreciation. They have other things that they consider such as the area that the multifamily property is in so they will pay less. That is what may drive our market rate down. The competition for deals may go up so the market cap rate may shift down.

If your market cap rate goes down, that is good for you. A decreased market cap rate drives your equity up. It causes your existing properties to be worth more. If the interest rates go down, the value of your property goes up because your market cap rate went down. You can still buy properties above that spread.

Your goal with multifamily properties is to turn a nice profit with as little of your own money as you can. The important thing when examining a multifamily deal is to try and design the deal so that there is cash flow after everything is said and done and the numbers are all crunched. .

Lance Edwards is living proof of his mantra that you don’t have to “graduate” from single family to multifamily – you can start with multifamily; using none of your own money and not dealing with tenants and toilets. For FREE information, visit http://www.ApartmentWealthMachine.com.

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Why would a business need to separate business credit from personal credit in the first place? Because good business credit scores will enable a business to:

-Protect the assets and credit scores of the owner(s)
-Gain access to lower interest rates
-Obtain larger business loans, credit cards, and vendor lines of credit
-Expand the funding programs available to the business

The key to separating business credit from personal credit lies in this simple numerical sequence: 1-3-5. This stands for 1 bank loan, 3 business credit cards, and 5 vendor lines of credit. Getting your business set up with a 1-3-5 will create the ideal situation for building and separating business credit from personal credit. Before you start obtaining a 1-3-5 for your business, make sure you go through this checklist of items:

1. Get incorporated (LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp, etc.)
2. Get an EIN (Employer Identification Number.)
3. Make sure a bank account is open in the business name.
4. For home businesses, get a separate business phone line and address. You can get a virtual address from somewhere like Mailboxes Etc. or UPS Stores.
5. Make sure your business is listed with the local 411 directory assistance.

The most important part of the 1-3-5 is that each credit provider reports your good payment history, only in the name of the business, to at least one of the 3 national business credit agencies; Dun and Bradstreet, Experian, and Equifax. A business credit account is useless for building business credit if nobody knows that you have it, or if it only reports under your personal credit.

Let’s break down the 1-3-5

1 Bank Loan – Bank loans are the ultimate catch-22. It is difficult to establish business credit without them, but many businesses are unable to qualify for them. Once a business has a reporting bank loan in the business name, it is put “on the map” in terms of business credit.

Here is a little trick to obtain a business bank loan. If you deposit an amount of money (at least $5,000 recommended) at an SBA preferred lending bank, then you should be able to get a business loan back for 100% of the CD value. Not all banks will do this so you will have to find a bank that will work with you. The money will never be at risk and your company will have a reporting bank loan in the name of the business.

3 Business Credit Cards – Many business credit cards are actually personal credit cards with the business name on the front. Companies like Advanta, Discover, and AMEX have offered true business credit cards in the past, but have cut back issuing these cards during the financial crisis.
Currently the best way to get true business credit cards that report in the business name only is to think more retail specific. Places like Home Depot, Staples, Office Max, and others offer reporting business credit cards in the name of the business. Before you apply for any business credit cards you should make sure the following step is completed.

5 Vendor Lines of Credit – Vendor lines of credit are the easiest to qualify for. There are over half a million vendors in the United States, but only 6,000 or so that report. If you cannot get your current vendors to report, try places like ULine, Office Max, DHL, Borders, and Staples. It is OK if the vendors’ products or services do not directly apply to your business. The most important part is that you get no more than 5 reporting vendor credit lines.

Once you can obtain the 1-3-5, be sure to make purchases utilizing your business credit cards and vendor lines of credit so your good payment history will be reported and your business credit scores can grow. Whatever you do, do not pay late as it will defeat the whole purpose of these accounts which is to grow your business credit separate from personal credit.

Jarrett Pflieger holds a BA in Entrepreneurship and is a featured writer for http://businessfinance.com. Build business credit and search for business capital for free today at http://www.businessfinance.com/business-loans.htm.

If you like to organize event or simply love food, you should consider starting a catering business. Catering business can be very profitable if manage correctly and you should look into exploring this business opportunity.

Although the catering industry is very competitive, you can still make a name out of your company if you run the business well. In this article, let me share with your some tips to start and manage a catering business:

1. Conduct market research. For any business that you wish to start, you must conduct a thorough market research. Find out as much as you can about the catering industry in your area. Analyse the big players and look at their business models to find out how they make money.

2. Create a business plan. Every business must have a business plan. By writing your own business plan for the catering business that you wish to start, you will understand more about your value proposition and revenue model. Through the business plan, you will also find out how you can tackle the market with your sales and marketing strategy.

3. Check with your local health authority. Your local health regulation is very important and is something that you should consider when going into the catering business. There are rules and regulations that you need to follow. Therefore, you must understand and follow every regulation to get the permit that you need to start the business.

4. Branding your business. A good brand will always outlast a mediocre brand. You need to choose a memorable name for your business. Also, make sure that you position your business properly. For example, if your business targets high net worth consumers, you need to position your business to serve this group of people.

5. Menus. Provide different kinds of menu for your consumers to choose. The better your menu, the more business you will get.

6. Decide on the place that you will prepare the food. Look for a suitable kitchen space to provide the food for your catering business. Sometimes, it requires you to rent a commercial kitchen from a restaurant owner. In this case, make sure that you negotiate a good price with him.

Hope that you have benefit from the tips in this article. Just bear these tips in your mind and go ahead to start your catering business. In your journey of running this business, you will sure face some difficulties. Always remain calm and persevere on – this is the way to success.

Eatzi provides catering services for residents in Singapore.

Cheow Yu Yuan is the co-founder of OOm, an online marketing agency that provides professional SEO Services.

The ability to improve your multifamily property boils down to you being a good asset manager. The purpose of asset management is to increase equity by raising NOI to cap out the property. Asset management boils down to four areas: property management, repositioning, adding income sources and reducing expenses.

Do not confuse asset management with property management. Property management is the day-to-day operation of a property. Property management involves keeping the property up, collecting the rent and maintaining it. Asset management is adding value to the property.

Asset management is the fun part of owning multifamily property. This is where you get to be creative. Thinking of creative ways to raise rent and decrease expenses is an example of asset management. You are looking for value plays. Every time you consider a multifamily property deal, you need to be examining it through asset management “glasses”.

You are not a retail buyer. You are looking for ways to improve your multifamily property and add value to it. You need to always be wearing your asset management “glasses” when looking at potential deals and when operating your properties.

Property management is pushing the rents, raising the collections, increasing the occupancy, and keeping expenses in check without much capital expenditure. This involves making improvements without spending a lot of money.

Repositioning is changing the appearance, reputation, and/or the image of the property. It involves capital if you are rehabbing properties and changing the tenant mix. It might mean converting an all bills paid property to an individually metered property. Many times it has to do with the reputation. Changing the name on a property may help change the reputation.

Adding income sources involves adding onsite laundry facilities or putting in vending machines. You could also amenities like cable or internet services. Other possibilities include a childcare facility or storage units. You can really get creative when it comes to thinking of additional sources of revenue for your multifamily property.

Reducing the expenses on your multifamily property means that you look at every expense as something that can be eliminated or reduced. This does not mean that you become slumlords but instead means that every expense should be something that can be optimized. You have a responsibility to provide your tenants with safe and decent housing and responsibility to yourself to do so the least cost possible.

Evaluating a multifamily property with the asset management aspect of it in mind can greatly assist you in determining whether it is a deal with pursuing. At the same time, if you currently operate a multifamily property, you need to always find ways that you can add value to your property. Proper asset management will enable you to cap out your property.

Lance Edwards is living proof of his mantra that you don’t have to “graduate” from single family to multifamily – you can start with multifamily; using none of your own money and not dealing with tenants and toilets. For FREE information, visit http://www.ApartmentWealthMachine.com.

NYC taxi medallions are one of the most interesting forms of pseudo property that exist in the world today.

A taxi medallion is simply a transferable right granted by the city to pick up passengers. However, through effective regulation, the dollar value of this right appears to be heading toward a million dollars.

What is the cost of a NYC taxi medallion? As of early 2009, the cost of a NYC taxi medallion trades in the price range of six hundred thousand dollars for the individual and almost three quarters of a million for the coveted corporate or mini fleet medallion. The industry has seen its overall value increase by almost five hundred percent since the year 2000.

NYC taxi medallions are a special license plate affixed to the hood of the yellow taxicab. It represents the license and legal right to pick up passengers from the streets without prior arrangement. No other car service or limousine service has this right.

This system was put into effect back in 1932 and by the sixties, all taxicabs were required to be painted yellow. The medallion number must be clearly visible on the taxicab roof light, on the license plate as well as on the door exterior and inside the vehicle.

The three types are the individual, the corporate or fleet and the handicap access medallion.

The individual medallion currently requires the owner to operate the yellow taxicab a minimum of 210 nine hour shifts per year. This underlying requirement guarantees the availability of taxicab transportation. It is not unusual for two taxicab drivers to form a partnership and share the medallion or for an individual owner to lease out the vehicle for the shifts he or she is not working.

The corporate or fleet medallion does not need to be operated by the owner. In fact, the owner need not have a NYC yellow cab operators license at all. The fleet medallion can be leased and often is on a shift basis, two shifts per day and for as much as $140 per twelve hour rental.

There is a network of brokers and agents who manage and lease taxicabs and medallions to independent drivers under daily, weekly and even longer term arrangements for investors. As an investment, the most interesting aspect of NYC taxi medallions is the valuation trends. In 2009, as the US and world economies are shrinking, the medallion value is soaring.

When banks, stock brokerages, construction companies and retailers lay off workers, one of the first places the unemployed workers seek income is in the taxicab industry. So, as the general economy suffers, the number of available taxicabs shrinks as more people seek them and those already working are forced to work more shifts as competition for fares increases.

There are a limited number of medallions and as of the beginning of 2009, the number is just over 13,200. This number was constant at 11,787 for more than sixty years. So why has the number of taxicab medallions increased? In the nineties, then Mayor Rudolph Giuliani approved New York City Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Christopher Lynn to conduct three auctions selling a total of four hundred medallions.

The sales netted the city approximately one hundred million dollars. The politics behind the sales was very intense and telling, as shortly after the sales were completed the industry applied for and received a rate of fare increase. After a few short years, another proposal for new auctions was approved by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The successive sales created slightly more than 1,040 new medallions. During these auctions, the handicap access medallion was introduced at a substantial discount to regular market prices. This was to entice owners to pay the high price of retrofitting vehicles with automatic ramps to accommodate wheelchairs. They were all sold and on a percentage basis, have risen in value more than other medallions.

To own a individual taxi medallion, a driver must have a New York City taxicab operators license known as a hack license. To obtain this hack license, a driver must complete mandatory training as provided by the Master Cabbie Taxi Academy in Queens, New York.

Weekly surveys of New York City taxicab driver income conducted by Academy Director Terry Gelber indicate earnings of more than one thousand dollars per week for the full time night shift driver and slightly less than one thousand for day shift drivers. Drivers who own their own car and lease the medallion tend to earn between one thousand and fifteen hundred dollars per week as do drivers who own both the car and medallion.

Besides the steady income, there is the possibility of upward appreciation in the taxi medallion value in the coming years. So if having one of the NYC taxi medallions interests you, investigate the requirements needed to obtain it.

If you are interested in having one of the NYC taxi medallions, begin the process by contacting the American Master Cabbie Taxi Academy located in New York City at 1-718-472-1699 or 1-800-955-8294 – David Lee Buster has the NYC hack license and is a writer for the academy.

Savvy Internet users are quickly becoming interested in creating their own paid membership websites. Since the Internet has become more and more useful to society-from being a reliable source of information to one of the major providers of entertainment, the Internet, nowadays, is as widely used as the television. Everywhere, you would not find a single person who is not familiar with the benefits and functions of the Internet. Students, especially, find the Internet as an ultimately useful contributor to their research needs. Before, in order to produce a carefully researched academic paper, they would have to search the library and read for hours. That is the only way students do research but now, with just a few clicks, students are able to gather all the relevant information for their paper.

This is the reason why online content has increased in value a great deal. Before, all the articles on the Internet could be downloaded for free but the growing demand for online content has grown and many people are taking advantage of it. Many of them are starting to learn how to make a membership website of their own. By having their own membership website, they would be able to earn a lot of money by just doing little work. They could even replace their full-time jobs with this business venture because of the quick growth of income.

With this kind of business, it is easy to become rich. As long as your own website is properly maintained and all the needs of the clients are catered to, you would not have any problem running it. However, many people are scared to go on with this business because they fear that they do not have the appropriate knowledge to run this business. Those who are not experts on the Internet and web design feel that they are incompetent in this field so instead of going on, they back out before even starting.

What they do not understand with this business is one does not need to be an expert on the matters of running membership websites to be able to profit in this kind of business. In fact, all you need to do is learn the basics and in a few weeks, you would be able to run your own membership website and profit from it greatly. You do not need to have a rich experience in this field for everything you need to learn can be found in many guides available online.

These guides will serve as effective guides to making your own paid membership website. The step-by-step instructions that will be provided by the guides will make the process a lot easier. In just a matter of weeks, you will be informed of which category your website should belong to. The guides will enable you to have a deeper understanding of the market trends needed in running the business. And with the small amount of capital required, you sure would be able to earn money from your website in no time.

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An “all bills paid” property means that there is one bill for the entire property and you are paying the electric bill instead of the tenants. As a result, you charge more for rent. You will discover that many properties, especially Class C, will be “all bills paid” properties. You need to weigh the pros and cons of offering all bills paid with your properties.

Typically, you will be faced with deciding whether it is beneficial to switch from all bills paid to individual meters for each unit. Most people are not looking at going from individual meters to all bills paid.

All bills paid properties are usually easier to rent because the potential tenant does not have to come up with a credit check and it is more convenient to have the electric bill included in the rent. The tenants are writing one check to you instead of two separate checks. Another advantage is that if you had a tenant not paying on time, you could have the electricity shut off.

You could convert an all bills paid property to individual meters but it is capital intensive. The tenant will have to get his account set up with the utility company.

The argument against all bills paid properties is that utility prices have been going up and if something is “free” to a tenant, they will not be very judicial with the use of their utilities. The disadvantage is that you can lose money based on usage. You could overcome this by adding a clause to your tenant’s contract that says if the utility bill exceeds a certain amount that you reserve the right to bill back the tenant.

An option would be to leave it as a single meter for the property and put a monitor on the individual units to measure the usage. You can outsource that to a company who will monitor the usage every month.

There is a service that you can pay with a capital cost of $500 per unit. They will put in a measuring device to determine how much electricity is used. For a small fee, the company will measure the usage remotely and bill it back for the electricity used. This is much more cost-effective than putting in electrical boxes for each unit. The cost for actually converting a single unit is more than $500 because you are putting in a new meter box.

If you do offer the all bill paid to your tenants, ultimately, you are still responsible for the electric bill. You are the electricity “provider” so if you are flexible with that, you can charge more rent for the convenience of that service. All bills paid properties have their advantages and disadvantages and it is important to weigh all of your options when considering making a switch.

Lance Edwards is living proof of his mantra that you don’t have to “graduate” from single family to multifamily – you can start with multifamily; using none of your own money and not dealing with tenants and toilets. For FREE information, visit http://www.ApartmentWealthMachine.com.

You need to know how to “cap out” a property or create value in a property. If you are going to wholesale properties, you need to understand this concept because it improves your ability to package your deals for sale to another buyer. Understanding market cap rates is vital to increasing value in multifamily properties.

The better you can communicate what could be done to a property and how to make money with a property, the higher the assignment fee you can get when you sell that property.

It will have much more impact if you can say, “I have a 50 unit apartment building that is currently at a 9 cap that could easily be at 11.2 cap if you do these things” instead of saying, “I have a 50 unit property, do you want to buy it?”

The more educated, empowered and knowledgeable you sound, the more value you bring to the deal whether you are going to hold it or flip it. In order to do this, you need to understand the market cap rate. This is the cap rate that most properties are trading on a retail basis. The market cap rate can vary from city to city.

As more demand increases in the market, the market cap rate goes down because people are getting more excited about the appreciation. The demand is driving the price.

How does knowing the market cap rate help you? It helps you in terms of determining the value of your property or selling your property. You know that cap is the NOI divided by the price so you can turn that around and say that the price equals the NOI divided by the market xap.

So if your NOI is $27,000 and your market xap is 8.5%, then the value of your property would be $317,000. If you paid 220,000 for the property, your equity would be $97,000 ($317,000 – $220,000).

The way you create value in apartments is by raising NOI. Knowing what the market cap rate is allows you to immediately assess the value. If you want to know how much your property will be worth if you do some improvements, just divide it by your market cap rate.

When you are analyzing a property, you want to buy at a high cap rate but you want to sell or refinance at a market cap rate. An appraiser will look at the market cap rate to assess the value of your property. If you just bought a property, you will want to wait twelve months before you refinance.

The more knowledge you acquire regarding your market and the property, the more you are able to accurately assess the property and in turn, create more value. The market cap rate is just one tool you can use to create value.

Lance Edwards is living proof of his mantra that you don’t have to “graduate” from single family to multifamily – you can start with multifamily; using none of your own money and not dealing with tenants and toilets. For FREE information, visit http://www.ApartmentWealthMachine.com.