In a recent post, I asked the question, "Do you do your own repairs?" I don't want to rehash that post, but just give you a personal example of why it's important to have a network, even if YOU do most of your own repairs. Last...
Topics: Property Management, repairs

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" Fair Housing Isn't Always Fair ." That's a quote from Doug Chasick , Chief Learning Officer and Senior VP of Multifamily Professional Services for CallSource , a web based education provider. Awhile back, I received an email from...
Topics: Fair Housing, Property Management

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One of the great debates among landlords are whether it's a good idea to rent to prospective tenants that have pets. On the one hand, there are so many landlords that do NOT allow pets, there is a definite marketing advantage to those landlords who...

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Sometimes the questions that I get from tenants are useful in helping us rental property owners to think through some of the management issues that we face. For example, I just received an email from a reader of ManageRentalProperty .com that asked this..
Topics: Property Management, tenant manager

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I just wanted to do a quick post on the importance of paying the right price when you purchase a property. Here is an example. I am bidding on a smaller multi-family apartment complex of about 15 units. The current owner had bought the property for...
Topics: negotiation, purchase price

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