Real Estate News & Commentary Oct 01, 2014 Can The Apartment Market Continue to Boom? By Drew Sygit Multifamily rentals — by and large, “apartments” — are strong and not showing any signs of slowing down. Axiometrics, a research firm that studie... Read more →
Business Management Sep 27, 2014 5 Ways to Stand Above the Competition as a Property Manager By Drew Sygit 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 ... Read more →
Landlording & Rental Properties Sep 24, 2014 4 Foolproof Steps to Painlessly Resolve Tenant Complaints By Drew Sygit 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. Read more →
Mortgages & Creative Financing Sep 17, 2014 The Pest Clause: A Small Lease Addition to Avoid a Big Headache By Drew Sygit 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... Read more →
Business Management Sep 10, 2014 The New Trend That May Convince You to Try Your Hand at Property Management By Drew Sygit 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, ... Read more →
Mortgages & Creative Financing Sep 03, 2014 Why Annual/Term Leases Win Out Over Month-to-Month (Almost) Every Time By Drew Sygit 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) ... Read more →
Business Management Aug 27, 2014 Property Manager Marketing: Can You Relate? By Drew Sygit 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... Read more →
Business Management Aug 20, 2014 Property Manager Marketing: Who Are They To You? By Drew Sygit In Part I (“Your Perfect ... Read more →
Business Management Aug 13, 2014 Property Manager Marketing: The Perfect Client By Drew Sygit 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... Read more →
Mortgages & Creative Financing Aug 06, 2014 Excerpts From Our Best Lease Clauses By Drew Sygit 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... Read more →
Landlording & Rental Properties Jul 30, 2014 How to Be Reasonable As a Landlord With Apartment Wear and Tear and Security Deposits By Drew Sygit 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... Read more →
Business Management Jul 23, 2014 The 4 Things Your Property Management Website Needs To Do By Drew Sygit 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... Read more →