Thinking about becoming a landlord? Property Management Kit For Dummies, 2^nd Edition gives you proven strategies for establishing and maintaining rental properties, be they single family or multi-resident. You’ll see how to prepare and promote your properties, select tenants, handle repairs, avoid costly mistakes and legal snafus — and meet your long-term goals. You’ll learn all the basics of the rental housing business — from finding and showing properties and dealing with tenants to record keeping and paying your taxes.

Now you can find out if you really have what it takes to successfully manage rental property and you’ll learn all about the various options for hiring someone else to manage your property for you. You’ll find out the right way to prepare your properties for prospective tenants, set the rent and security deposit, clean up properties, and verify rental applications. In no time at all, you can become a top-notch manager by working efficiently with employees and contractors to keep your properties safe and secure. Find out how to:

• Manage your time and money wisely
• Acquire a property and prepare it for tenants
• Make your property stand out and attract tenants
• Keep good tenants and get rid of bad ones
• Collect and increase rent
• Evaluate the different types of insurance and understand income and property taxes

Complete with lists of ten reasons to become a rental property owner, ten ways to rent your vacancy, and the ten biggest mistakes a landlord can make Property Management Kit For Dummies, 2^nd Edition will help you achieve your dream of being a successful rental property owner.

The Unofficial Guide to Managing Rental Property

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The inside scoop . . .for when you want more than the official line

So you’ve decided to invest in real estate–congratulations!–but now you need to know how you can best manage your property and maximize your profit. How much should you spend on renovations? Where will you find responsible tenants? And how can you keep on top of new government regulations?
The Unofficial Guide? to Managing Rental Property answers these questions and many more, giving you insider guidance and valuable tips on managing and profiting from your investments. You’ll find savvy advice on everything from legally setting rental criteria and managing properties part-time to successfully evicting delinquent tenants and collecting damages. This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide reveals what other sources can’t or won’t, presenting unbiased recommendations to help you get the most out of your investments–and enjoy them!
* Vital Information on finding and financing

great rental property and calculating rent and profit.
* Insider Secrets on selecting and retaining good tenants, ensuring on-time rent, and collecting late rent.
* Money-Saving Tips for rehabbing a property and obtaining good tax advice.
* The Latest Trends in writing legal, effective ads and interviewing and screening applicants to avoid potential problems.
* Handy Forms and Letters for contracting new tenants and communicating with current occupants.

Handbook of Research on Information Management and the Global Landscape

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Online collaboration is increasingly improving partnerships for organizations across the globe, strengthening existing relationships and creating new alliances that would previously have been inconceivable. Through these new global networks come significant issues, opportunities, and challenges for the consideration of researchers, organizational managers, and information professionals.

Handbook of Research on Information Management and the Global Landscape collects cutting-edge studies that deliver deep insights into the array of information management issues surrounding living and working in a global environment. Collecting over 20 authoritative chapters by recognized experts from distinguished research institutions worldwide, this truly international reference work emphasizes a regional theme while contributing to the global information environment, creating an essential addition to library reference collections.

As economies continue to evolve, knowledge is being recognized as a business asset and considered a crucial component of business strategy. The ability to manage knowledge is increasingly important for securing and maintaining organizational success and surviving in the knowledge economy. Knowledge Management Strategies for Business Developmentaddresses the relevance of knowledge management strategies for the advancement of organizations worldwide. This reference book supplies business practitioners, academicians, and researchers with comprehensive tools to systematically guide through a process that focuses on data gathering, analysis, and decision making.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Knowledge and Knowledge Management Conceptual Aspects
Chapter 1: Conceptual Theory: What Do You Know?

Chapter 2: Relational Flexibility: How to Work with Labor Dynamism and Promote Knowledge Flow in Hospitality

Chapter 3: Agile Alignment of Enterprise Execution Capabilities with Strategy

Section 2: Knowledge Management Audit

Chapter 4: KARMA-Knowledge Assessment Review and Management Audit

Chapter 5: The Green Bay Chamber of Commerce: Foundation’s Foundation

Chapter 6: A Model for Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Audits Carolina López-Nicolás, University of Murcia, Spain

Section 3: Organizational Knowledge Management Strategic Dilemmas

Chapter 7: C3EEP Taxonomy: Knowledge Based Strategies

Chapter 8: Linking Exploration and Exploitation Capabilities with the Process of Knowledge Development and with Organizational Facilitators

Section 4: Knowledge Management Strategy

Chapter 9: How Do We Get There: Strategy Action Framework–“Action Engine” Meir Russ, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA

Chapter 10: Aurora Health Care: A Knowledge Management Strategy Case Study

Chapter 11: Strategic Alliances and Knowledge Management Strategies: A Case Study

Chapter 12: Creating and Delivering a Successful Knowledge Management Strategy

Chapter 13: A Practical Approach for Aligning Business and Knowledge Strategies

Section 5: Knowledge Management Functional Strategies

Chapter 14: SMEs and Competitive Advantage: A Mix of Innovation, Marketing, and ICT: The Case of “Made in Italy”

Chapter 15: Knowledge Management for an Effective Sales and Marketing Function

Amit Karna, European Business School, Germany Ramendra Singh, Indian Institute of Management, India
Sanjay Verma, Indian Institute of Management, India
Chapter 16: The Implications of the Development and Implementation of CRM for Knowledge Management

Chapter 17: Quality and Continuous Improvement in Knowledge Management

Chapter 18: Translating Knowledge Management Practices into the Boundaries of Supply Chain

This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco. It guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories, and shows how to use Alfresco to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. Alfresco offers Enterprise Content Management (ECM) aspires to be “Documentum fast and free”, and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart “spaces”. Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network  folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods. Users can set up Alfresco to process content in certain ways, according to business rules and workflow requirements. It can also apply version control to documents automatically, making it easy and safe to collaborate and update documents. Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system. Using Alfresco, administrators can easily create rich, shared content repositories. This book shows you how to unleash this power to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise. This book will take you through the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing your ECM installation. Among the many topics covered are: Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration Using Alfresco as a Smart document repository; working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, or FTP Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows Working together using Alfresco’s collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts; presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business Approach Munwar Shariff is an experienced software trainer for CIGNEX Inc. He has trained many users, administrators, and developers  in Alfresco and many other systems. This book distils the hands-on approach of his training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco incrementally through practical discovery. Who this book is written for This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist sysadmin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction to Alfresco Chapter 2: Installing and getting started with Alfresco Chapter 3: Planning Chapter 4: Implementing Membership and Security  Chapter 5: Implementing Document Management Chapter 6: Implementing Business Rules Chapter 7: Extending the Alfresco Content Model Chapter 8: Search Chapter 9: Implementing Simple Workflow Chapter 10: Collaboration and Syndication Chapter 11: Customizing User Interface Chapter 12: Maintaining the System