All Forum Posts by: Brian LeBow

Wear and tear would dictate eveything would likely be beyond its reasonable Life expectancy- replace everything, no deductions.   Unless there’s real damage.  We have a five page do in web that covers wear and tear vs damage.  

You’d cover expenses and repairs for the building?   It’s great if you can list out every item that would go wrong and the associated cost; what happens when the building needs a complete repipe? Who pays?  What’s the advantage for owners to give yiu a master lease?  I can gurantee income to owners - and we do currently, here in Los Angeles.  https://bellpropertymgmt.com/p...    Check it out 

You have some valid concerns and raising rents is always a balancing act.  In short, it makes good sense to do a moderate increase.  If you’re tenants are reasonable, they’ll have a discussion before opting to leave.  Sometimes tenants will simply outgrow a property and leave, regardless.  We had a great couple that lived in one of our large apartment communities for two years, and then with covid they decided they want to be in a single family home.  Sometimes churn is inevitable.  I always recommend our property managers apply a moderate increase.  If you’re a smaller owner it might be worth a conversation before Just pushing out or publishing a renewal letter.  

You can use Yardi Breeze, Buildium or even Rent Manager.  When you get up to 50 you can switch to Appfolio.    for Southern California multi family owners that need help, feel free to get in touch!! 

It’s best to hire someone.  Good handymen (people) are expensive.  150 units is plenty to be able to add someone to payroll. You back bill owners for the work, so about 60% of the handyman’s time is actually making you a couple bucks per hour.  If you need more help reach out to me.   All the best! 

You have photos from before?  

Legit property management companies are set up to do unattended showings with a technology partner like Rently.  We do this in Los Angeles as no owners nor prospects want to risk contact, and so even if we have occupied units, tenants step out for an hour and prospects are given access and instructions not to touch anything in the unit, and to wear mask and gloves.  Everyone is being very safe here.  

We've used Rently for two years and are very impressed with their approach, the technology and the flexibility.  We can put it on homes for self showings, when owners allow, and use it to provide a code to vendors and realtors.  It also has lots of included features, like the auto reply  email and we embed their code in our website so it's always synced up with our software/Rent Manager.  For Southern California traffic, and owners that allow us to leverage this tech - it makes alot of sense and FREEs us up to do more.  We had also looked at Showmojo, but there seems to be alot more expense with TT & ShowMojo.  

Take them to small claims or contact  We give tenants an option to opt in to credit reporting within our payment solution.  Most tenants that are trying to improve their credit score will opt in at the time they set up auto payments.  

Rent Recovery Solutions, is great as well.  

I’m in California — amd here you need a brokers license.   Hopefully someone from Texas will chime in for you.  All so there are great property management groups on FB.  PM is a tough business!!  

What state are you in?  Are you a realtor?  

Have you managed property previously?  Are you planning to be the only contact for emergencies?