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As a property owner and/or manager, you may already have many successful ways to quickly fill your vacancies with well-qualified, new residents.  My hope is that I can add a long list of intuitive and counter-intuitive suggestions that have worked and will keep

What do you do if you live in a bad area but you have a nice townhouse to be rented out?  I have a three bedroom, 1 ½ bath with central air, alarm system, six foot privacy fence, 1 ½ car garage but when I tell people the address it deters them from

Financing is the absolute heart ‘n soul of building wealth with real estate – beginning from the time you purchase your first property until the time you cash in your chips (sell out).  In the early years most Mom & Pop investors (the folks I associate with) simply do not have enough

The value of setting up appointments from telephone inquiries has been clearly established.  Yet, it seems that the number of callers being converted into visitors is not always producing a high percentage of rentals. A recent question submitted by a manager of a large apartment community may

“You might as well realize that the time for opportunity is past.  There’s no longer any use trying to save for investing.  The best you can hope for is to keep a steady job and stay off welfare.  Nobody will ever again be able to build

Researching frequently promoted tips for rental housing owners brought up a plethora of topics related to the functioning and financial survival of properties.  Ultimately, I want to narrow in on three different factors that I feel make the biggest impact on a

Brokerage experts, Jospeh Chaplik, Linda Fritz-Salazar and Greg Frick give the below advice when considering buying or selling apartments:

New AOA Forms In our continued attempts to make your job as a landlord easier, AOA has designed the below forms for your immediate use:

 Rents are rolling along with a full head of steam in the first quarter of 2014. Over the past four years, there has been a very real demographic shift away from homeownership. Much of the recent home buying activity is investors looking to get into the rental business. Millennials coming into the market don’t have…

Q: I don’t allow pets in my apartments.  One of my tenants has a cat that she claims is a therapy cat and she wants me to allow her to have the cat in her