Tenants Who Smoke May Be Burning Through Your Money
Sunday, June 22
Ceilings, baseboards, lungs — it seems everything smoke gets into needs replacing, and usually at great expense. When you have tenants who smoke heavily, you have a unit that’s going to need a special kind of deep-cleaning when that tenant leaves. You may need to clean or replace not just th...
Bed Bugs: How to Know, What to Do
Sunday, June 15
Hitting them with a shoe just doesn’t seem to get the message across. Everybody seems to have an understanding that beg bugs are a problem in apartments and hotels and other high-density places…but everyone is pretty much wrong on that regard. Bed bugs don’t particularly care where they sett...
Recycling: Should You Be Doing It On Your Properties?
Sunday, June 08
‘A recycling program for tenants’ does not mean bringing your old tenants back to rent again. According to the EPA, some 75% of all solid waste could be recycled, but less than half that actually is. As Americans focus more and more on ‘greening’ their lives, recycling is turning into someth...
Do You Have a Senior-Oriented Property?
Sunday, June 01
Know yourself, and know your target tenant, and you will survive a thousand rentals. While it’s true that seniors are more likely to own than rent at present, that trend may be changing. Estimates are that there will be some 2.2 million more senior renters by the end of the decade as the Bab...
Customizing Your Business for the Millennials
Sunday, May 25
Millennials are the future — and there’s no reason not to tap the market starting today. If you’re not familiar with the term ‘Millennials,’ it refers to the generation that, in the late 80s and early 90s, was called “Generation Y” (because it was the generation after Generation X, naturally...
Using Modern Technology to Get Rent Paid on Time
Sunday, May 18
Can your smartphone get tenants to pay ontime? Maybe, maybe not — but their smartphone sure can! Property managers, including DIY’s, can get pretty busy — and one of the most delicate yet important parts of our job comes at the beginning of every month as we make sure that each of our tenant...