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Imagine if you will, you are getting ready to go out of town for Thanksgiving Day weekend when you check your email and see that your tenant will be moving out on December 1. Oh no, you thought they would be there longer than that and you remember how hard it was to fill the same... read more >>

Imagine sitting home at night watching the game and getting a call from your property manager who tells you that the railing broke free from the second-story walkway on the small apartment building you own. You are devastated to find out that an eleven-year-old boy is in the hosp... read more >>

Imagine if you will, you are at a family gathering when your tenant reaches out to you saying that the refrigerator is not working and wants it repaired or replaced ASAP. You hang up the phone and pause for a minute. Your very practical wife tells you to go ahead and get it taken... read more >>

Imagine if you will, your messy tenant who is behind on rent just sent you a maintenance request reporting a mouse or bed bug infestations on the property. You think to yourself there have never been any other complaints about rodents or different pests. The other tenants who are... read more >>

Buying a property for the purpose of repairing, remodeling, or repositioning it to be put back on the market in a short period to be resold to make a profit is commonly referred to as flipping.It is not as easy as it may seem. Some people are good at it and others are not. People... read more >>

Anyone who owns a property management business or is in a business development role for a management company spends a lot of time answering questions from property owners interviewing potential management companies. We get all kinds of questions and I love answering them. Some ha... read more >>

There are risks involved with having a vacant rental property. This is also true for properties for sale or otherwise vacant. Sometimes, people do bad things to a vacant property and other times bad things can just happen because the property is vacant and unattended. We talk abo... read more >>

We all know there are risks to having a vacant property, and there are a whole host of “bad actors”, from scammers to vandals, that pose a threat to your property’s well-being. Other times, bad things just happen to your property seemingly on their own. Regardle... read more >>

There are two kinds of risks faced by a vacant property. First, there are the bad things that people do to it, and then there are the bad things that just happen. Here, we’ll talk about bad things people do on a vacant property and give you a few tips on what you can do abo... read more >>

Imagine if you will, you hired a professional property management company to manage your property. Your management company has its screening process. That’s part of why you hired them. However, before you sign off on the lease, you want to do your extra due diligence a... read more >>