Slumlords
Five Ways to Maximize Profits as a Church-sponsored Slumlord
Slumlords own or oversee buildings that are in poor condition and rent them out anyway. The slumlord ignores tenant complaints and does not worry about upkeep or anything that might interfere with profits unless faced with legal demands from the city.
The church is supposed to be a benevolent organization that cares more about people more than money or the things of this world. Yet, according to PimpPreacher.com, churches around American run inferior housing programs and are no better than slumlords. After 2nd Ponce De Leon Church gave 60-day eviction notices to its tenants saying they would demolish buildings instead of fixing their properties, PimpPreacher noted, "When I reported …show more content…
This sounds great until you realize that the air conditioners don't work. The church was going to continue to ignore the problem until an activist started to expose the problem and make things uncomfortable for the church. The air conditioners still are not completely fixed, but the church is "working on it".
If you would like to run your own church slumlord business, PimpPreacher offers these 5 suggestions to be successful:
1. Stay Low Key. Slumlords don't want to be high profile. Too much attention to you might draw attention to your other "activities". You don't want to appear on TBN or reach megachurch status. If you are the pastor, don't be too charismatic.
2. Buy Properties in High Profile Neighborhoods. When you are in the slumlord business, time is your friend. Buy nice properties and rent them out at full cost to nice tenants. As the quality of the rentals go down, you can get government sponsorship to provide "low-income housing" in high-income neighborhoods. 2nd Ponce De Leon owns their land in the richest place in the entire state. Friends Baptist Church just sold property to the Atlanta Falcons for $19 …show more content…
Hire Professional Spin Doctors. The press and websites like PimpPreacher can get your church in an uproar if your congregations believes you are mistreating tenants. However, a professional spin doctor can work the press for you to make public apologies, convince everybody of your innocence, and make small movements seem large. When Friendship Baptist Church's spin-doctor told the press that the AC units were fixed, he meant that some now worked, some of the time. How long will it be until the problem is actually resolved? Exactly.
5. Keep Your Distance and Never Admit Anything. Don't talk with the people that you are renting to, and if questioned, deny knowledge of everything. If somebody does get through to you personally, dodge, dive, duck, and dodge. Then, call the spin-doctor. If thing start to get hot, go on vacation. After all, you don't have to worry about things that you don't know about, and you didn't get into the slumlord business because you wanted to help people, anyway.
If these things don't seem to match your Biblical convictions, then you just aren't cut out for this business and should go back to preaching Biblically relevant messages to people you actually care about. Don't worry, there are plenty of other churches and pastors who will gladly take your
Slumlords own or oversee buildings that are in poor condition and rent them out anyway. The slumlord ignores tenant complaints and does not worry about upkeep or anything that might interfere with profits unless faced with legal demands from the city.
The church is supposed to be a benevolent organization that cares more about people more than money or the things of this world. Yet, according to PimpPreacher.com, churches around American run inferior housing programs and are no better than slumlords. After 2nd Ponce De Leon Church gave 60-day eviction notices to its tenants saying they would demolish buildings instead of fixing their properties, PimpPreacher noted, "When I reported …show more content…
This sounds great until you realize that the air conditioners don't work. The church was going to continue to ignore the problem until an activist started to expose the problem and make things uncomfortable for the church. The air conditioners still are not completely fixed, but the church is "working on it".
If you would like to run your own church slumlord business, PimpPreacher offers these 5 suggestions to be successful:
1. Stay Low Key. Slumlords don't want to be high profile. Too much attention to you might draw attention to your other "activities". You don't want to appear on TBN or reach megachurch status. If you are the pastor, don't be too charismatic.
2. Buy Properties in High Profile Neighborhoods. When you are in the slumlord business, time is your friend. Buy nice properties and rent them out at full cost to nice tenants. As the quality of the rentals go down, you can get government sponsorship to provide "low-income housing" in high-income neighborhoods. 2nd Ponce De Leon owns their land in the richest place in the entire state. Friends Baptist Church just sold property to the Atlanta Falcons for $19 …show more content…
Hire Professional Spin Doctors. The press and websites like PimpPreacher can get your church in an uproar if your congregations believes you are mistreating tenants. However, a professional spin doctor can work the press for you to make public apologies, convince everybody of your innocence, and make small movements seem large. When Friendship Baptist Church's spin-doctor told the press that the AC units were fixed, he meant that some now worked, some of the time. How long will it be until the problem is actually resolved? Exactly.
5. Keep Your Distance and Never Admit Anything. Don't talk with the people that you are renting to, and if questioned, deny knowledge of everything. If somebody does get through to you personally, dodge, dive, duck, and dodge. Then, call the spin-doctor. If thing start to get hot, go on vacation. After all, you don't have to worry about things that you don't know about, and you didn't get into the slumlord business because you wanted to help people, anyway.
If these things don't seem to match your Biblical convictions, then you just aren't cut out for this business and should go back to preaching Biblically relevant messages to people you actually care about. Don't worry, there are plenty of other churches and pastors who will gladly take your