The First-Time Landlord
Buy, rent out and manage your first investment apartment — without the expensive mistakes. Thirty chapters, each with a checklist, plus a one-page deal evaluator.
$19.90 one-time · PDF e-book · 44 pages · instant download
People spend a month choosing a phone and an afternoon choosing a property
A rental apartment is the most common investment ordinary people make, and the one they make with the least preparation. This is the month you should spend, condensed into thirty short chapters by someone who has spent decades in commercial and residential real estate watching first-time landlords make the same nine mistakes. Every chapter ends with a checklist.
Before you buy anything
Why rental property honestly, the four ways to make money (and the one that matters), what you can really afford, the numbers on one page, choose the tenant first, location: the boring truth.
Finding and buying
New build or old, judging the building not just the flat, the viewing checklist, what it is actually worth, negotiating without drama, the mortgage that fits a rental, due diligence and the lawyer.
Preparing and letting
The rental-ready standard, setting the rent, the listing that gets good tenants, choosing the tenant, the lease clause by clause, move-in day.
Managing · The numbers and the exit
Rent collection that never needs chasing, repairs in three tiers, inspections, renewals and notice, when it goes wrong, management companies · the annual review, tax in principle, insurance, growing from one to several, selling, the nine expensive mistakes.
Tools at the back
A one-page deal evaluator (gross yield, net yield, cash flow, cash-on-cash, stress test) and a maintenance calendar from monthly to every fifteen years. Written for any country with a normal property market; wherever the book says "check locally", it means it.
Who this is for
Anyone about to buy their first apartment to rent out, or who just did and is wondering what happens now. General information, not legal, tax, mortgage or investment advice — the book makes the conversations with your lawyer, accountant and mortgage adviser shorter and cheaper; it does not replace them.
About the author
Meir Gilady is an Israeli entrepreneur and independent thinker based in Holon. Alongside a career in commercial real estate he builds software under the AILAMA name — including AILAMA Mind and ToolVerse — and writes about physics, technology and everyday wellbeing on Medium.
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Questions
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