How Single Family Home Investors Can Protect Their Investments From Cyber Security [Infographic]

Hackers love to hack. It’s what they do. Government, businesses, homeowners, and renter are all vulnerable to varying degrees. In homes, your tenant’s cars, cameras, and even refrigerators may be vulnerable to a breach. Not including, of course, their laptops, tablets, and smartphones. As an investor in a portfolio of single-family homes, how can you help your tenants protect themselves from Internet home invasions?

The firms’ www.refiguide.org and www.nowsourcing.com have put together the infographic below which provides a brief hacking history and how to protect your home.

The simple ways to stay protected include:

• Create segmented networks

• Disable network and features when not in use

• If you have a router, keep the firmware up to date

• Don't connect devices if they don't need to be connected

For more information on why your should consider investing in a professionally managed portfolio of single-family homes, please contact Harold Willig at 917-209-4452 or harold.willig@springviewinvestments.com

Harold Willig is the Manager of SpringView Investment Management, LLC, which he founded in 2012. Mr. Willig also served as HFZ Capital Group’s Chief Financial Officer, and was responsible for the oversight of HFZ's Finance and Accounting team. He has over 16 years of finance and accounting experience. Mr. Willig also ran a consulting practice and provided valuation, analysis, and transactional support services to multi-billion dollar real estate companies. Previously, Mr. Willig served as the Senior Controller and Vice President of Financial Analysis and then the Chief Financial Officer of the Athena Group, a multifamily development company and fund manager.