Multifamily rentals — by and large, “apartments” — are strong and not showing any signs of slowing down. Axiometrics, a research firm that studie...

A huge part of being a property manager is learning how to market yourself and your company. You have to do it twice, after all: once to your client owners, the property owners who allow ...

If you manage properties, there’s one thing that absolutely will happen, no matter how amazing you are at your job: someone somewhere will complain about something.

There are a lot of clauses in any given lease, and some of them are obviously more or less business-impacting than others. Your late-rent clause, for example, is one that always gets plenty of a...

The Great Recession ended, according to U.S. economists, five years ago — so we can all stop worrying about the state of the economy now, right? Riiight. No matter what the economists tell you, ...

We’ve always been a proponent of term leases, so our viewpoint might be a bit biased, but hear us out. Over the years we’ve met many landlords that are adamant about month-to-month (MTM) ...

Way back in Part I of this short series, we mentioned that part of property management marketing was the ability to create an implement marketing materials that moved customers along each...

In Part I (“Your Perfect ...

Property managers spend a lot of time marketing — but they spend most of that time marketing their existing properties to potential tenants. Quite often, marketing their services to prope...

We’ve inherited a lot of leases over the years when taking over the management of properties from stressed out Do-It-Yourselfers and competitors. Most of them were…OK…but a surprising num...

How do you go about determining what damage a tenant was responsible for after they move out? There is always damage — that’s not a question. But it can be surprisingly difficult t...

A website is an absolute must for a property management firm. Without one, you’re essentially advertising your backwardness to the younger, tech-savvy generation of renters — and you’re m...