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Blog Post Houston Landlord Compliance Guide: How Realvest Helps Protect Rental Owners
By Sarah Lernor - Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Houston Landlord Compliance Guide: How Realvest Helps Protect Rental Owners

It is 2:00 AM, and a Gulf Coast storm has just rolled through Houston. A rental owner wakes to a frantic tenant message: a tree limb has damaged the roof, water is leaking inside, and the air conditioning is out.As the owner, you are not only thinking about repairs. You are think...
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Blog Post Please Don't Hire Us
By Sarah Lernor - Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Please Don't Hire Us

Now and again, I know I will not make an owner happy. What they're looking for in a property manager just isn’t me. So much of this business is about preference: communication style, risk tolerance, portfolio goal alignment, etc. I hate to say it, but I usually know wit...
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Blog Post Is Anyone Actually Making Money in Real Estate Investing?
By Sarah Lernor - Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Is Anyone Actually Making Money in Real Estate Investing?

It’s easy to find clickbait that promises financial freedom through real estate investing. It’s a lot harder to find financial freedom, especially in the days of high home prices, higher interest rates, and astronomical tax and insurance rates. In 2022, I remember hav...
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Blog Post I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know
By Sarah Lernor - Tuesday, April 28, 2026

I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know

I was 32 weeks pregnant with my first child when we closed on our house in Houston. I had planned to relocate my comfy corporate job to Houston while my husband did graduate school in the famous Texas Medical Center. About a week after we closed on our house, I learned the Housto...
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Blog Post The Day I Made Our First Hire
By Sarah Lernor - Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Day I Made Our First Hire

The late-night bank reconciliations were becoming all too frequent. Still, I kept thinking I needed more revenue before I considered hiring someone to assist our newly formed property management company. Then, in February of 2021, all of that changed. More details in another blog...
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Blog Post A River or a Reservoir?
By Sarah Lernor - Tuesday, March 10, 2026

A River or a Reservoir?

I started reading (ok, listening…. but I firmly believe it still counts) the book Becoming More by Dianna Kokoszka. The book begins with a quote:“People are rivers, always ready to move From one state of being into another. It is not fair to treat people as if t...
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