Busy Professionals? Hampton Roads Property Management: Your Time-Saving Hero
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, May 15, 2025
If you’re a busy professional, you know you can always make more money. Making more time for yourself is more of a struggle. However, there may be some areas in your life where you can delegate your most time-consuming tasks and make better decisions about what yo...
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Leveraging Crowdfunding for Your Next Hampton Roads Investment
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, May 1, 2025
There are many different paths to real estate investment success, and sometimes the most creative and non-conventional ways are the most profitable. Even if you’re only thinking about becoming a real estate investor, you know that buying and renting out properties can ...
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Fixer-Upper Frenzy: Rehabilitating Rentals for Maximum Profit in Hampton Roads
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, April 17, 2025
Finding a fixer-upper can often feel like quite a discovery, especially if you’re trying to buy something on a budget that you know will pay off in the long term. Hampton Roads real estate investors looking for some cost-effective and profitable ways to rehabilitate a ...
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Beyond the Bases: Engaging with the Military Community to Attract Tenants
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, April 3, 2025
Renting homes to members of the military is about much more than simply signing leases and fixing sinks. Helping members of the military rent out their homes when they’re shipping out to a new service station is about more than screening tenants and protecting their in...
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Beachfront Rentals in Hampton Roads: A Dream Come True
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, March 20, 2025
So many people dream about an ocean view. Are you one of them?Beachfront rentals are a dream come true for investors and owners as well as tenants who enjoy staying in those rentals, even if it’s just for a weekend. In Hampton Roads, there are a lot of opportunities to acqu...
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Multifamily Mania: Why You Should Consider Investing in Hampton Roads Apartment Buildings
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, March 6, 2025
What’s so great about multifamily real estate investments in Hampton Roads? Everyone’s talking about them.There's good reasons for this, and we’re going to talk about why apartment buildings in this market make so much sense. But first, let’s thin...
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Real Estate Myths Busted: Unmasking Common Misconceptions about Hampton Roads Investing
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, February 20, 2025
What is scaring you off from investing in Hampton Roads real estate? Is it a misconception that we can unmask? A myth that we can bust? All investments come with some level of risk, and there’s no avoiding that. Investing in real estate, as you know, is also risky...
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Investing in Historic Homes in Portsmouth
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, February 6, 2025
One of the things we love most about Portsmouth, Virginia, is the collection of historic homes that can be found in the area. It’s a modern and growing city, but it’s also full of history and culture. Olde Towne Portsmouth is perhaps one of the most charming historic ...
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Station Savvy: Tailoring Rentals to Service Members Based on Different Hampton Roads Bases
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, January 23, 2025
In the Hampton Roads area, we don’t just have one military base. We have several. That opens our market up to a larger tenant demographic; service members and their families. At Doud Realty Services, we’re eager to help military tenants find homes. We’re also ha...
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How to Protect Yourself from Real Estate Scams in Hampton Roads
By Lisa Doud MPM® RMP® Thursday, December 12, 2024
Most of us can spot a scam before we fall for it, right? Right. But, the scammers are getting smarter. And we can only be so vigilant. If you’re renting out property in Hampton Roads, you’ve probably noticed that real estate scams and rental fraud have becom...
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