Property Management Blog

Fires. Floods. Destruction. Death.Now that I have your attention, allow me to steal a line from Ferris Bueller's Day Off "Life moves pretty fast"...  You're living it day by day, planning for your retirement, the kids going to college, and you get that call: your rental property has suffered a fire, a flood, or sign...

Now that we are emerging from winter and entering spring (with summer blistering behind it, in a real sense and allegorically... recall last year's 15 minutes of spring?), the time has come to think green as in green grass. Allow me to expand. It's a yearly thing Every year after the downpours let up, we will see lethargic Bermuda...

Greetings and salutations! I've always wanted to lead a blog entry off with that.Listen, did you know that twice each year there are items you can do at your home, rental or not, that will enhance your life and protect your family? There sure are! We will address these from both the resident's point of view and the rental property...

A vacancy is one of the most expensive aspects of the rental industry. It is in a property manager's or owner's best interest to keep their rental property occupied by qualified residents. In a perfect scenario, a landlord will secure a long-term lease with a responsible resident who pays rent on time, takes care of the property, ...

Getting a notice from your landlord that your rent is increasing would ruin anyone’s day. Unfortunately, this stress-inducing reality has been happening across the country as reports of rental rates hitting an all-time high have been making headlines regularly.After the initial shocks wear off (and the superlatives subside), it&rsqu...

Working in property management demonstrates time and again that no matter how well you maintain your properties, some problems are still bound to crop up. And often, it is the responsibility of the property manager or landlord to resolve the situation.Handling resident complaints in the proper manner can go a long way in alleviating their...

In the wake of the pandemic forcing their business online, some Real-Estate agents took to an unlikely platform — TikTok. As the pandemic pushed realtors into the digital space, some of them adapted into TikTok's signature short-form video format. The real estate market, "this dinosaur of an industry," had to adap...

I'm not sure why the title of this article, Rehabbing Houses for Sale or Rent, makes me think of the old Roger Miller song King of the Road, but it does. Maybe it's just the words Sale or Rent. Or perhaps it's because I actually wrote alternative lyrics some time ago, that started something like..."Rehab for sale or rent ...

There are a few variations on this but to start a management company does not pay for your repairs on your property, you do. The average management fee a management company receives is $175 a month. If there is one repair on your property for one month for $275 that means the management company loses $100, how would they pay their staff t...

No, we have collected over $100,000 for owners in outstanding rents, and we still have money coming in for our owners.In March 2021, the State of California and the Federal Government rolled out the rental assistance program. An incredible program is willing to pay up to 100% of the back owed rent. The catch…residents, and owners b...