Property Management Blog

If you have your house leased then you should know how to collect the rent in the quickest and most effective manner. Let’s find out exactly how to do it. The quickest and easiest methods require that you keep the convenience of the tenant in mind. By deciding earlier on the method of payment and making the process easier on the t...

No matter where you live it seems Old Man Winter has definitely arrived. If renters and landlords are not careful, they can be caught off guard, putting both their finances and families at risk. The National Home Service Contract Association (NHSCA), the non-profit trade organization representing the nation's premiere home service cont...

High performance property management employees set themselves apart from the rest and remain in the limelight. They always exceed your expectations and maintain a track record that is beyond par. Consider the employees in your firm, and you would easily be able to spot these above par employees, right? But what about the rest? They probab...

Do you prefer renting or buying a home? You may have already looked through a couple of photos, had a few floor plans designed, and inspected a few houses. Yet, despite the fact that you already have enough for a down payment, you are still a renter. Why is this? Because you cannot find that perfect home or because you do not want to find...

Every year, as late autumn turns into winter, more people begin using electric heaters in their rental homes.  Here are some sobering facts from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:  CPSC staff reports that from 2009 to 2012, electric heaters were associated with an estimated 1,100 fire incidents per year, resulting ...

A recent survey reveals that Big Data is just as important to property management firms as are their assets and team. Big Data provides a better insight into a company’s operations and can improve their decision-making capabilities. While using big data, the only thing that a property management team should keep in mind is that big ...

There have been plenty of surveys and reports that focus on what landlords and tenants want from a property management firm. The answers are always similar: trust, responsiveness, reliability and the like. But what about the employees of a property management company? What are their expectations? They are also a very important group of pe...

Are you co-signing a lease or rental agreement, or thinking about it? If so, there are many legal considerations that you should think about first. When you co-sign a lease, you are essentially signing the lease as if it were your own. This means that you are exposing yourself to full liability on the lease. You won't be the back-up p...

There is no doubt that smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms can save lives.  But to do their job of alerting consumers to fire or CO, alarms need fresh batteries. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recommends that consumers put new batteries in their alarms to prepare and protect families throughout the upcoming wint...

All Landlords Are Now To Abide By the Same Eviction Laws across 254 Counties Effective from August 31st, 2013 all 254 counties across Texas will have to abide by the same eviction rules. The old rules were open to several interpretations by the local courts which made the whole process a bit unorganized. The new rules will not only help...