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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.

2014-06-28

The Incredible Influence of Online Reputation

A company called BrightLocal, late last year, released a survey of how people interact with customer reviews, and the results were interesting enough that when I stumbled upon it, I decided I had to share. Different people have had a lot of different takeaways from reading the survey, but the lesson that I learned is […]

2014-06-21

Calling A Drone Strike On Your Tenants

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently legally required to formulate laws allowing and supporting the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in domestic airspace by September 2015. Cutting-edge companies like Amazon are already exploring programs that will enable them to take advantage by using ‘drone delivery’ for light packages to addresses near warehouses. So […]

2014-06-14

The Incentives That Actually Keep Tenants Around

Offering incentives in order to retain a good tenant is simply smart business — it’s significantly cheaper to maintain a current customer by giving them a small gift than it is to market and find a new tenant. But how exactly to retain tenants (or, more accurately since we’re clearly talking about incentives here, what […]

2014-06-07

How to Take Advantage of Energy Incentives

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 […]

2014-05-24

Evicting Your First Tenant: What Does A Day in Court Look Like?

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 […]

2014-05-17

The New American Dream Looks Good for the Rental Market

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 […]

2014-05-09

13 Things to Bring With You When You Show a Property to a Prospect

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 […]

2014-05-03

Tenant Credit Scores: Why You Should Always Look Deeper…

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 […]

2014-04-19

Bed Bugs: How to Know, What to Do

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 […]

2014-04-12

Recycling: Should You Be Doing It On Your Properties?

‘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 […]

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