Single family home prices have not collapsed because the banks, the guys who had to dump all those foreclosed homes, sold them in bulk to investors like American Homes 4 Rent (bought 20,000 homes or Blackstone Group who
Show Up Early Many of the landlord tips I suggest are really common sense, but yet they aren’t done by landlords. This one regards meeting tenants for potential viewings. When you have a tenant viewing booked, do you show up just moments before the tenants do? Or worse yet – after they do? Showing up…
Details“Tenants are using new technology to pay their rent more than ever before” When it comes to the payment the rent, tenants now have several options to pay their rent. Whether they choose to pay with cash, electronically, or by paper check, the most important thing
Details[AOA’s Note: As you are reading this, the government shutdown has probably come and gone, but the truth expressed is still valid!] Civil disobedience could be a dangerous thing. In fact, it might
DetailsA leading marketing research firm exclusively serving the multifamily industry, J Turner Research, recently announced a ranking of the top 10 apartment resident complaint
How do you, as a property manager, respond when a potential applicant asks you for information about the racial, ethnic, religious or family composition of an available unit, neighborhood or
Hello everybody. My discussion this month addresses the issue of whether a residential landlord can hold weekend Open Houses on property occupied by an existing tenant. When a renter gives
DetailsWhile searching unique perspectives on move-ins and move-outs in the property management world, I kept attempting to resort to a metaphor. Then I came across the origin of the word metaphor itself, which
Efforts to increase taxes on business property put homeowners in peril; here’s why. Sacramento can never get enough tax money to satisfy the political class. AlthoughCalifornia has the highest state sales tax, highest marginal income
DetailsDespite headline news speaking to the adverse consequences of the U.S. government shutdown, the first in seventeen years, the rental market seems insulated from possible demise. With all arrows pointing to rent decline, such as rents set so high as to price out the working class citizen – the majority of residents seeking housing require…
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