I own a 5 unit apartment building in Berkeley, CA. A long term tenant wants to play the role of onsite manager. She claims that the laundry room and trash cans needs upkeep.She offered this service to get some discoun...

Just this year, Bill Nye the Science Guy made a bold statement saying that the “greatest generation” has arrived. But have you heard of them? At 75.4 million strong, they are now the largest living generation in the U...

Would you accept bitcoin or another form of cryptocurrency as payment for rent?  (See for example https://www.inman.com/2018/01/04/landlords-increas....) My rentals are in a university town, and prospective tenants ar...

Picture a storage facility in which renters can lock and unlock their units using an app. The renter can still unlock the unit using a key, but the app would provide the user with the following advantages:
 Ability t...

Greetings,Does anyone use home security cameras at their rental properties? Do you prefer hardwired or battery powered?

Anyone have a solution for a cellphone style camera system that can be mounted on a rental door allowing two you video communication and then allowing access to the home while they are standing there? Matt in Tampa

We are converting some long-term rentals over to short-term right now. We are choosing both a smart lock and channel manager. We'd like the channel manager to integrate with the smart lock for generating codes automat...

Working on a project to cut the cord in six vacation rentals. Experiment so far, I bought an RCA 32 inch TV with built-in DVD. I will supply about 20 DVDs per unit. There will be one of these in each unit.I will offer...

I'm about to close on a property that will be my first vacation rental, so I'm starting from scratch. I'd really appreciate some advice about how to get started when I get the keys. One of the first things I think I s...

From a recent poll of customer banking preferences, as seen on Bank Innovation, the younger generation is growing extremely comfortable with non-bank, banking services. So comfortable in fact, that 77% of the poll’...