Hopefully, you’re not scrambling to get a lease renewed with your tenants days before the lease term is set to end. The lease renewal period is an important one. You want your good tenants to renew. This leads to lower turnover and vacancy costs. You won’t have to...
How much do you love the lawn at your rental property? If you love it a lot, you need to strategize how you’ll keep it looking great, even while your property is occupied by tenants. If you don’t really think about it, you still need a strategy. Curb appeal is an...
How thorough is your screening process? Most landlords will do a great job of checking credit reports and verifying income. But, the screening process shouldn’t stop there. It’s important to verify a tenant’s rental history. Looking at how a tenant has performed in...
Thinking about renting a property to old Aunt Edna? Or maybe a cousin’s kid needs a place to stay for a few months? Renting to family members can be fraught with anxieties…we want to get that out in the open right away. It’s stressful. How do you enforce the lease...
We’ve all had them: the houseguest who overstays their welcome. What does it mean, though, when your tenant has a guest staying in the property and the days and weeks tick on without that guest packing up to go back home? When you rent out a property, you expect...
Planning to hold your investment property for many years to come? We love to hear it. When investors buy a rental property with the intention to hold it over time, we know that they’re going to make some great money. The rent will continue to rise, and the property...
