I charge a flat monthly fee simply to be "on call", then charge a minimum fee to travel to the property for issues that require my physical presence with a per hour fee over the minimum.

Here the Government Standard Lease form which most landlords use includes a 7-page appendix containing the key points of tenant/landlord rights and obligations from the legislation and a URL to the entire legislation on-line.Most tenants - or probably landlords for than matter - never read the material, so its presence has no real impact on Landlord - Tenant relations.

Being a college town with a strong oil/gas industry presence, I expect rents to remain stable and/or even increase over time.

I will be starting my first mailing campaign next week and I also have two websites, but I am working o building a bigger internet presence for my business.Anyways, it was very tough to lose those deals.

I think NOT having a social media presence is strange these days.  

The one thing that will not change, is the university is not moving and there will always be a robust rental market, especially with Blinn having such a large presence in BCS.There is a lot of great knowledge here, and it sounds like you have already taken advantage of the resources the BP group has put together.Gig'emRyanClass of '96 and '07

It starts with he website, and do some building of your online presence and maybe a little seo here and there also.You have to be found online if you want to build any brand locally. 

Hi all,

We need to do some repair in our rental. Tenant said that she'd prefer to be home when someone enters the home. But technically we are allowed to enter and make repairs as long as we give a 24 hour notice. Do...

Wondering at this point, if we should just go to a local bank with a presence in Chicago; we no longer live locally, so that seems to be putting us at a bit of a disadvantage, since harder to build relationships with Chicago banks.  

You will probably need to sign the paperwork they send you in the presence of a notary.