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Welcome to the Logical Property Management Blog. Below you'll find blog posts specific to Property Owners or Tenants to learn more about how we work and what you should be looking for.

2025-11-14

From Grit to Glam: Detroit Tops the Luxury Housing Market Nationwide

Yes, you read that right. Detroit is now the #1 luxury real estate market in the United States. Not New York City. Not Los Angeles. Good ol’ Detroit! This comes according to the Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com’s Fall 2025 Luxury Housing Market Rating, which has the Motor City beating out upper-class metros like San […]

2025-11-10

Navigating the Government Shutdown: What Single-Family Home Investors Need to Know

If you’ve been paying even half an ounce of attention to the news lately, you already know this isn’t “just another” government shutdown—it’s become the longest one in American history, now stretching past day 40.  While the news headlines might be fixated on unpaid federal employees and shuttered services, the ripple effects on the real […]

2025-11-01

Tenant Payment Performance Update 2025 3rd Quarter

We’re unaware of any other local management company publishing this data!  Please share this with anyone interested in real estate investing or looking for a better property manager, so they can see what they are missing!  GENERAL EVICTION UPDATE We’re not aware of any courts experiencing significant delays in evictions. On average, an eviction case […]

2025-10-31

Deep Dive into Oak Park, MI: a Detroit Ring City

We talk to out-of-state investors every day who are intrigued by the Metro Detroit rental market, but aren’t sure exactly where to buy. That’s why we created this Deep Dive series: to demystify the metro area’s 185 cities and Detroit’s 290 neighborhoods for landlords, one zip code at a time.  This installment takes you on […]

2025-10-22

What Detroit’s PILOT Program Means for Multifamily Investors

Major multifamily landlords in Detroit are struggling, according to recent headlines, but the city’s new PILOT Fast Track program aims to solve the problem. The market is facing a “perfect storm” of rising costs, new tenant protections, and high property taxes. It’s a combination that’s squeezing profits and making it harder for large multifamily landlords […]

2025-10-17

Will Zillow’s Breakup Impact Your Rental Marketing?

If you’re a landlord, Zillow is probably your go-to platform for listing rentals.  It’s the biggest name in the game, pulling in over 225 million visits per month, according to Semrush. But does that make Zillow a monopoly? That’s what a series of high-profile lawsuits are suggesting. Five states and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) […]

2025-10-13

Hamtramck Named One of the US’s Top 5 Suburbs to Live In

The city bubble has burst. With work from home now an option for many workers and rents soaring in metro areas, there’s been a mass exodus of tenants to the suburbs. Particularly in areas with home values under $250,000. Places like Hamtramck. So, Detroit investors, pay attention, because big things are happening in this little […]

2025-10-10

Eviction Horror Stories: Episode 4

We’ve been buying, renovating, and managing rental properties in Detroit for almost 30 years.  So it’s pretty safe to say that we’ve seen it all – from tenants who refuse to leave to ones who break in again, just when you thought you’d finally evicted them for good. So much, in fact, that we decided […]

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