Energy rebates and incentives are out there. Intelligent people who apply themselves to finding and applying for them can save themselves a lot of money — but it often seems like the only way to stumble across them is by meeting someone who already knows where to look. That’s because they come from a wide […]
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ProTip: Blasting the AC full-bore all summer long isn’t the right answer. The best way to get the chills this summer is to leave your air conditioning on all day and all night — the electric bill you’ll get each month will freeze your blood. Instead, here’s a few cheap and clever ways to keep […]
ProTip: Bring Every Record You Have of Every Encounter You Had. If you’re a first-time landlord or you’ve just been lucky enough to not have evicted a tenant yet, you may be rather dreading the moment when some tenant has the testicular fortitude to bring you to court over an eviction. That’s because it’s new […]
For A Lot of Millennials, The Great Recession Was The ‘American Wake Up.’ Every generation has had its own take on the American Dream — ever since the 1930s when the term arose (and referred largely to ‘surviving the Great Depression’), it has been evolving constantly. “Living the American Dream” has referred to: owning a […]
If You’re Superstitious, You Can Bring The Febreeze and The Candle There are lot of different ways to screen tenants, but one of the best (and least understood) ways to ‘screen’ is to attract the highest-quality prospects you can in the first place. There are a few solid techniques for doing so — setting a […]
Just Like the Book Covers They’re Always Telling You About! Across the course of human history, there have been a lot of things that people just flat-out didn’t understand — and unsurprisingly, those things have had a tendency to create the most bizarre myths and stories. We blamed lightning on Thor and/or Zeus, the appearance […]
We’ve never seen a rental contract that forbids feng shui. There are a lot of great reasons to want to decorate your rental. Your home isn’t just the place you live — it’s an expression of your inner self. The colors you surround yourself with, the lighting, the window treatments and floor covers all reflect […]
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 the paint, but the trim, […]
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 settle in — they’re just as comfortable […]
‘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 something that people are actively […]