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.
If a home’s lack of curb appeal crushes an applicant’s hopes, is ‘curb stomped’ the appropriate term? The best way to get a tenant into a rental home is to set the home up to rent itself. (That, and have a good ad writer to make sure the applicants see the house the same way […]
Water — it’s vital to life…unfortunately, that life happens to include fungus and mold that we really would rather not live with. No one ever wants to experience water damage within the home, but the fact is it happens. It’s crucial to know what to do when water damage occurs to minimize structural damage and […]
Why lose a tenant and cost yourself a bunch of time and money just because you’re not at the top of your game one day? There’s no better way to lose a tenant than to hit them with bad news in a bad way. Never has a lease been broken faster than when a cranky […]
Tenants are people, and we respect all people…but some people are easier to get along with than others. Some tenants are needy. We’re not talking about being low-income or Section 8 or whatever; We mean they’re the kind of people who constantly ask for (or demand!) your time and attention. Sometimes they’re just unlucky […]
Don’t forget to varnish and seal your landlord at least annually. You probably expect this to be a blog post about how important it is to have an expert come in and regularly perform the scheduled maintenance on all of your properties’ mechanicals and appliances. But if you expected that, why are you reading […]
“There is the mistaken thought that ‘fair’ or ‘consistent’ are intended goals of the system. Fair doesn’t and won’t enter into it. People who insist on working with a system that is intended to be fair and consistent should take up a team sport, or maybe get arrested.” — Craiglist Employee Craiglist is, despite […]
Not your former landlords, silly — your applicant’s! One of the most often-skipped portions of the tenant screening process is the call to the applicant’s current and former landlord(s). It’s skipped for a lot of reasons. Sometimes, the applicant seems genuinely afraid to give you their current landlord’s number, and they have a reason for […]
The FHA is much like the Wu Tang Clan — nothing to…ahem…mess with. The Fair Housing Act (FHA) — 42 U.S.C. § 3604(c) — makes it illegal to: make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a […]
Why the quote marks? Because the law defines aliens in a lot of ways — “documented” or “un”, “resident” or “un”, “immigrant” or “non”…but never as “legal” or “il.” Let’s get one thing straight — the term “illegal alien (or immigrant)” is a hot topic right now and we’re not here to discuss politics. We […]
And this doesn’t even count things like your hair, or sanity, or nights’ sleep. In our last post, we mentioned in passing the notion of the ‘professional tenant,’ and we wanted to expand on that a little bit because we didn’t really have room to do the concept justice. So let’s talk about what a […]