About David Tilney

David Tilney

I started buying houses in 1978. As I acquired properties, I hired out the management, always with dismal results. My first house had a fireplace and chandelier stolen, a fire started in one of the bedrooms, and the rear fence burned down. In another case my manager left town absconding with funds and was later arrested by the FBI. I quickly learned that property acquisition was the easy part of real estate investment. The key to long term success was, and still is, good management.

I have spent almost 30 years learning property management from the most knowledgeable managers I could find and from the “school of hard knocks.” In my quest to be the best manager I could be, I have implemented, revised, tested and modified other people’s ideas, and created new material as necessary. I have changed systems and procedures as the laws and times have dictated. This seminar will share my secrets of success for the single-family investor and will help you implement them yourself.

"Hassle Free Property Management" is the sum total of all of my experience and innovation. It is a nuts and bolts course designed to give you specific tools to make your operation more efficient. It will teach you how to reduce stress, increase cash flow and find more time for other pursuits.

My management philosophy has always been to treat our tenants the way they would like to be treated, while maintaining strong controls to assure maximum profitability with a minimum of hassles. My wife, Mary, and I continue to manage our own rental portfolio, as well as "master lease" single family homes of other owners and investors. We collect all rents (utilizing ACH software) prior to the first of each month and we have experienced only one eviction in our entire management history. Most of our tenants rent from us for multiple years. One couple rented the same house for 25 years and another couple currently renting have been with us almost 20 years!

Mary and I have three grown daughters and two (soon-to-be three) sons-in-law. Each of our daughters was exposed to our business in some capacity while they were growing up, but none expressed any interest to follow in our footsteps. Imagine our surprise and delight when our daughter, Erin, and her husband, Kurt, formed their own real estate company, Candela Properties LLC, several years ago. Candela Properties also handles the marketing and registration for our seminars. All of our children have been to the Hassle-Free seminar multiple times - without any coercion from me! They are always supportive and keep me honest and on my toes.

Mary and I are now Florida residents and divide our time between Florida, Colorado and world travels. Using the "Hassle Free" system, we are able to manage our Colorado properties "long distance" from Florida or wherever we happen to be. I hope you will join us either in Las Vegas on October 11-12 & 13, 2008 or in Tampa on November 15-16 & 17, 2008.