18 Mar Should You Let Tenants Paint
If you own or management rental properties, one of the most common alteration requests you'll receive from a tenant is asking to paint areas inside the home. Follow these best practices to when receiving painting requests to ensure your tenant understands their requirements, and that...
03 Jul The One Secret to Keeping Your Listings Away from Scammers
Scammers are lurking around every nook of the internet looking for easy targets. Without taking precautions, they will use your legitimate available property listings to set their traps. To help protect the public, not to mention save yourself from an annoying waste of time, continue...
11 Feb Quick Tip: Maintenance Request Response for Garbage Disposal Issues
We've all received that maintenance request from a tenant saying that their garbage disposal doesn't work. The problem is that more times than not, it's because something is jammed in the blades or the reset switch needs to be clicked. I finally got tired of...
28 Sep Quick Tip: Ensure Tenants are Changing Air Filters
Nothing is more frustrating than getting a maintenance request from a tenant saying that their air conditioner isn't working and when the HVAC vendor get's there, they find that the cause is a clogged air filter that hasn't been changed in months. If your lease...
25 Sep 5 Red Flags when Showing Rentals
A significant part of property management includes showing available rental properties to prospective tenants. Over the years, I’ve picked up on some general “red flags” that I look out for when interacting with these prospects. There are of course always exceptions, but by and large,...