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Buried under mountains of property management paperwork?  Do the projects seem to never end?  Imagine how good you would feel if every day you could

What is the case for raising the minimum wage? Supporters say it will help the low-paid worker, the teenager or the young person in his 20s, just starting out. They claim that it helps the economy because

Q:  I would like to prohibit my new tenant from smoking inside his apartment, can I do that? A:  Yes.  Effective January 1, 2012, you may prohibit new tenants from smoking cigarettes or

Question 1: When there is a shooting and tenants want to break the lease, what can we do to stop them, or force law enforcement to make the area safer so we don’t have our buildings sitting vacant because

With more apartments coming on line, it’s time to plan your interior selections upgrades. We all know that renters want to live in apartments that have a modern, updated look. Upgrading your vacant units so they have what renters

Question One: I have a seven unit building. We just tented the building for pest fumigation. When they took the tent off the building, we found out that someone went inside the tent and broke into two of the units. They entered through an open window in one unit and cut the security door on…

When I advise landlords about handling tenants, one of the very first things I tell them is to get rid of any notions or ideas about tenants that don’t mean too much or that can’t be enforced.  Such things as how many visitors your tenants can have, how

Hello everybody. From time to time, AOA members vest title to their apartment building in the name of a corporation in which they are the sole shareholders or in the name of their limited liability company in which they are the sole members.  Typically that is done for two reasons:

Recently, a member called us about doing income and employment verifications.  He was wondering if it was appropriate to ask for check stubs.  He was concerned about violated fair housing or getting into legal jeopardy.  His questions about best practice and liability prompted us to

We asked ten rental property owners to share what they believe is the single best piece of landlording advice that they have ever received. Here are their school of hard knocks words of wisdom: