Unable to sleep, you found yourself on the web one night and when you Googled “cut business costs”, you found a slew of information that included managing your current overhead costs by streamlining your office processes as well as monitoring your expenses more carefully to effectively assess what works for your business and what is just costing you money.

Business contact management software offers the tools to reduce your overhead costs with streamlined business processes long with powerful monitoring and reporting tools that can help you watch where your business’ money goes and how effective those sources are for bringing in business and revenue.

When you research business contact management software, you’re not only taking a step that could reduce your costs and ultimately increase your revenue over time, but you are also moving your office to that of a paper-free, green environment, reducing your business’ carbon footprint as well.

With web-based business contact management software, you see a way out of your current financial trouble and heave a sigh of relief that the first thing you plan on doing tomorrow is not having a meeting with your sales staff about potential layoffs, but to talk about the options that exist for SMC systems that can help your team perform more effectively and give your business a real chance at improving your profits.

You put your laptop away and make some notes for the morning’s meeting. You’re not telling your staff yet, but you’re also going to get your assistant to do some research for this year’s bonuses. No harm in planning for the future, after all.

Larger sum of money can be borrowed at a lower interest rate. So, it makes sense to consolidate your small multiple debts into a single loan amount. Debt consolidation is a smart way to address your debt problem.

A careful approach while collating your debts using debt consolidation loans will not only help you to streamline your finances but also enable you to get rid of the debts in the long run. While applying for a debt consolidation loan, try to borrow only that much money which is just sufficient to pay off the existing debts. Also, try to avoid borrowing money for a period greater than that of your existing debts.

Take utmost care while selecting a debt consolidation company. Do a thorough research on the various companies offering a debt consolidation loan and select the one that is most suitable for your individual circumstances. You can also receive debt consolidation loans online by just filling up a simple form.

If the total debts you owe to different creditors are not enormous, then you should opt for unsecured debt consolidation loans to consolidate the debts. Unsecured form of loans does not necessitate submission of security. So, it is a completely risk-free option you can use to consolidate your debts.

Debt consolidation is definitely a much better option than bankruptcy. It is very easy to surrender to (unfavourable) circumstances but it takes courage to face the situation and find a means to resolve the problem. Filing for bankruptcy puts a big black mark on your credit history that is difficult to wipe off. On the other hand, debt consolidation loans enable you to bring your debt situation under control and eventually eliminate debt from your life by repaying the consolidation loan on time.

When seen from the balance sheet, he’s able to gain appreciation on the asset side and the leverage provided by the bank rounds out the liability side of the balance sheet.      

Through a property management company you can also access the four parts of the financial statement.  Here’s how:

Balance Sheet:  Asset-side

Every property producing monthly rent is an asset.  It is possible to sell the rights to manage the property to another property manager for a lump sum of money. 

Balance Sheet:  Liability-side

Robert uses his banker’s money aka leverage in order to purchase a large property with only a small percentage as a down payment.  When the property goes up in value he is able to keep the entire appreciation amount without having to share it with the bank.  He can use leverage and still get the benefit of 100% of the appreciation.

In the property management business, leverage is achieved through controlling the income of a property.  A property that is producing $500/month in rent gives a property manager $50 in income.  If the property manager feels that $500 is too low for the area, the manager can increase the rents by 10% to  $550 and the management company’s income will go up 10% accordingly.  How many companies can increase their income by 10% without a causing uproar among its clients?

Income Statement:  Income Column

As a property manager, you take your 10% management fee directly off the top after the rents have been collected.  Here again, if the manager feels that rents are too low, the manager simply raises the rent and increases the income to both the manager and the property owner.  It’s win-win!

Income Statement:  Expense Column

While Robert Kiyosaki is able to depreciate the building as an expense, a property manager cannot take this tax advantage because a property manager doesn’t own the building-the owner does, however, a property manager is able to make money off the expenses incurred by the owner of the property. 

Let’s say that a tenant calls to say that the plumbing underneath the sink is leaking.  The property manager sends out his repairman to fix the leak.  The repairman sends a bill to the property manager for the $12.00 plumbing parts plus $30.00 for his hourly rate. 

The property manager now marks up the bill by lets say $10.00 and now charges the property owner $12.00 for the parts and $40.00 for the repair time.  The $10.00 is for the property manager’s orchestration of taking the call from the tenant and sending out the repairman.

Now multiply this scenario by the management of 200 properties and you’ll find that expense mark-up is a significant source of a property manager’s income.  

As you can see real estate allows an investor to utilize all four parts of a financial statement.  As a property manager, you can piggyback on the owner’s shoulders and receive some of the same benefits of cash flow and leverage and you can actually profit from the property in ways an investor cannot i.e. expense mark-up. 

And here’s the best part and the prime example of a property manager’s ultimate leverage:  the manager isn’t responsible to the bank for making the payments on the mortgage.  The owner is responsible!  The property manager is able to make money off the property without being personally responsible to the bank for the asset that creates all the money in the first place. 

What a concept!