I had a lot of fun and enjoyed meeting the "names" in person. I signed up for next year, so I really have to get on the ball purchasing more property to pay for this trip and save for next year!

"captured audience" of all those beautiful, intelligent and very female landowners from all over these wonderful United States was like Manna from Heaven for two rager "Horn Dog" property owners like us from Southern California! Not only did we learn quite a few things about the skills of landlording from your great speakers corps but, not so surprisingly, from a fair amount of those wonderful single (and married) landlord mammas too, but we also taught some of these "landladies" a few new wrinkles from SoCal as well, God love 'em all! We'll both be back on board the "Love Boat" next year to hone our "educational skills", if you get my drift, and we'll also be teaching a few things too, but only after school is out and only to the "Lady Landords" on board!

Thanks again and we're both definitely looking forward to pulling away from the dock again REAL SOON!

Our very best, Dash Riprock & Lance Cutter

This year had a great balance of tax savings tips, asset protection, bookkeeping automation, & how to buy and manage new properties. The most inspiring part of the cruise each year is listening to the accomplishments of the other attendees in the room. Being able to hear what others do and then sit down over a meal with them and discuss how they do what they do is priceless.

Now, does anyone have a form that I can send to my residents that says "we have to raise your rent, because we spent a week in the caribbean which has far too many jewelry shops". :)

This will be our 14 or 15 Mr. Landlord cruise, with Jeff and Dot. With each cruise I come away with new ideas that have help me over the years.

If you have not made up your mind about going on a Mr. Landlord cruise, GO on the cruise, you will not regreat it.

My best to Jeff, Dot and the boys.

We had a forms night where people who had contributed forms could share them and we all got some good input from that.

I had a question about the Lead Disclosure Form and asked if it had to be a separate addendum or could it be in the lease itself. I was told very firmly it had to be word for word and had to be a separate addendum. This disagreed with what I had previously understood so I went directly to the government web. They show "sample" disclosure documents and state that this or something similar must be used either as an attachment or may be included in the wording of the lease itself.

There were some great rental applications and it was stressed we should have separate applications for ALL adults 18 and over to avoid the risk of "discrimination" based on marital status. That I had not thought of and I am in the process of getting those changed.

I also liked the form that was a management tool when taking a laptop was not possible. Some people felt it was reduntant because they had other bells and whistles they carried with them. For the rest of us who are still in the paper age, I thought her form was well thought out and useful.

We learned about Rehabbing property from Paul Youngs and some ideas to do things less expensively. Also about being knowledgable enough to know when your contractor is taking you for a ride. Good stuff.

We learned about taxes and equity stripping from Al Aiello, also entities.

There simply wasn't enough time to learn all there was to learn and there isn't space enough to report on everything we learned.

Thanks Jeff for a great cruise.

Brenda

The MrLandlord cruise this year was one of the most awesome ones I have ever attended. The speakers gave out a lot more "meat and potatoes" as opposed to straight sales pitches. There was a lot more time of Jeffrey giving out his tips and pointers too. On the last day Larry Goins spent the better part of the afternoon sharing some of his favorite places on the web for various bits of information you might want to look up. In fact all the speakers, Al Aiello, Pete Youngs, and Mark Sumpter did an excellent job. Jeffrey must have told them we did not come all the way there just to listen to sales pitches.

Now, next years cruise will make all you left coast folks happy. It will be January 23rd thru 31st of 2009, leaving out of San Diego to the Mexican ports of Acapulco, Manzanillo, and Zihuatanejo. Hope to see you then.

Then bundle that in with an information packed conference and it makes for an incredible week. The sessions were great and I have numerous pages of notes that I need to dig through this week and put into action.

I enjoyed meeting all those aboard and I look forward to meeting more of you on future cruises!

--Saundra