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.
You know that you managed your priorities well when you’ve set aside a “ready to be interrupted” time in your work schedule. So last time, we talked about what ‘information overload’ was, and mentioned that you can deal with it by modifying the information itself, or by modifying your brain so it can deal with […]
Have you ever suffered from the dreaded business disease called “infobesity? The single biggest challenge of our collective jobs in property management is dealing with the raw amount of information that comes in. It’s something that we warn our new employees about, but it’s not something that we’re really talking about. So I thought I’d […]
Property managers have a particular set of skills…. Here are a couple of short anecdotes of times when someone at our property management company had to do some genuine detective work in order to fulfill a role that seems like it should be a fairly straightforward set of tasks — just to show you the […]
What does a property management company do? The answer is simple: more than most people realize. What does a property management company do all day? It’s a legitimate question – and here’s the answer, in all its complicated glory. The basic process of a property management company goes like this: Owner Intake: We add a […]
Most cities in Metro Detroit are worlds apart. The Metro Detroit area is one of the most polarized areas in the nation. One part is populated with people who tend strongly to be low-income, low-education, and low-demographic. The other is populated with people who tend to fall much closer to the national averages in those […]
Yes, we’re doing more much more than put a “for rent” sign on your property. Recently, our Marketing Department had an interesting interaction with an owner whose rental unit just wasn’t moving, for reasons that no one could control. The owner asked us if we could do anything extra in terms of emergency marketing to […]
50% of workers say they’re not sure what’s expected of them in their job. Sounds crazy, but it’s true! The Royal Rose Properties Maintenance Department deals with an extraordinary range of contractors, from the down-and-dirty “Chuck with a truck” guys to professional builders who offer ALL the services – and charge you for all those […]
A good property management team can make your investment work. Royal Rose Properties is a fairly unusual property manager – we do a lot of things that most property managers don’t. In particular, we’re renowned for our in-depth record-keeping, our unique approach to the most high-risk/high-reward neighborhoods in Detroit, and for having a relatively vast […]
Employees shouldn’t be mind-readers or push-button robots. Royal Rose Properties has built its business model with an eye toward the long term, both in terms of how to manage properties on the daily, and in terms of how we treat our business from a big-picture perspective. But this creates an interesting bit of “corporate dissonance” […]
How do you all deal with being a landlord when it seems that tenants are constantly angry? When you manage almost 400 properties spread across just under 200 portfolios, every detail matters. You get to see the kind of patterns that form from “big data” – but you also, just by pure statistical chance, get […]