Excellent property management delivers the highest profits and superior care for your property. This is a clear and simple truth. But how can you really know when you’re getting great management?
“Couldn’t find the problem, everything is ok.” Trust me if maintenance cannot resolve a problem in a residents apartment. Everything is not ok. The resident is looking for service and we are failing to provide it.
Recently, a client in a 1031 Exchange with $4,000,000 of equity was working with another registered representative and talking to a sponsor directly. In talking with Kay Properties and Investments, they learned that we specialize in Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) 1031 Exchanges and that we have access to a variety of DST properties from many…
Since the modern-day version of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (the “IRC”) Section 1031 was amended in 1954, real estate investors have used Section 1031 like-kind exchanges to defer gains on their sale of real property. Section 1031 exchanges allow sellers to exchange investment real property with other like-kind investment real property without the payment…
Rent control has been in force in a number of major American cities for many decades. The best-known example is New York, which still retains rent controls from the temporary price controls imposed during World War II. But this policy, meant to assist poorer residents, harms far more citizens than it helps, benefits the better-off,…
Question One: One of our rental properties is in a nice area of Encinitas, in San Diego County. Next door is another rental. Over the past four to five years, there have been numerous criminal activities in the neighboring unit. Police activity is so frequent that our tenants often cannot leave or gain access to…
If you’ve missed some of the prior articles, basic guidelines on successful investing are in my book “Stairway to Wealth” available at LuLu.com. Continued from Part 32: Buffett vs. Soros. These are opposing types of investments. The Buffett approach is biased towards safety of principal and the compounding of dividends. His desire is to control…
In my readings recently, I stumbled upon an article concerning rent control – a subject pitting two economic groups squarely against one another. If you’re the owner of residential rental units, you object to a governmental agency dictating what price you may set on your property. If, however, you’re the traditional apartment dweller, you favor…
The below article was written by John Triplett, a writer for the Rental Housing Journal. Tensions are rising between landlords and property managers, and tenant activists. Landlords and managers have been bullied over rent increases. And they face unpleasant demonstrations from activists as Portland struggles with a shortage of housing and rapidly rising rents. A…
Hello everybody. I am sorry to report that on April 30, 2018, the California Court of Appeal issued a really bad ruling regarding arbitration insofar as it will affect landlords. The decision provides a strong basis by which a claimant, including a residential tenant, can avoid enforcement of a binding arbitration provision in a lease…