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Renovate (ren-oh-VAIT), v: “to make new again,” from the Latin reno meaning “money pit,” (see Reno, Nevada) + vate meaning “the act of upending your wallet into.” c. 13th century British. Renovating a home after a client has given it to your property management company to oversee is pretty much part-and-parcel of today’s PMing world. […]
Doing a serious deep-clean before the first tenant is a must, but between tenants, it’s often just a waste of money. When you get that notice from a tenant that says “Candace is out — peace,” you know what needs to happen, and one of those things is that you need to get the place […]
“Hey, RRP. We just purchased a property out of foreclosure, and we know nothing about it.” There’s few times more hectic in a property manager’s life than the moment that a client calls you with those words. You know, right away, that you’re going to be a busy manager for the next few days at […]
Are We Penalizing The Right People, The Right Way? In 2009, Saginaw passed a law requiring landlords to include a section in their lease agreements dubbed the ‘Crime Free Lease Addendum.’ In March of this year, Buena Vista Township (adjacent to Saginaw) passed the same law. In essence, this addendum adds a section to the […]
Clue Number One: It Has No Roof. It’s hard to say with confidence that any given part of a rental home is ‘more important’ than any other — they all kind of have to work together in a very specific way to accomplish their job — but if there was one part that fit the […]
We Started With a List of Twenty-Three, But We Narrowed It Down. It’s a little close to home, to be a property manager and decide to research what owners & tenants complain about their property managers about. But no matter what industry you’re in, it’s a good idea to have a firm grip on how […]
Flexibility Isn’t The Most Important Think for a Property Manager…But It’s In the Top Three. This is going to come as a massive shock to a lot of property managers out there, so brace yourself: most tenants want to pay you what they owe. Most tenants want to be able to work out a fair […]
Be Responsible, But Know When That Means Liability and When It Doesn’t. Imagine you’re a judge sitting on the bench, and a homeowner makes this argument in your court: someone broke into their house and beat them senseless, and they want to sue the contractor who installed their window, because it never did lock quite […]
Hoarding is So Much Easier with Amazon Free Delivery! Hoarders — as the popular TV show has labeled them — have a psychological disorder that causes them to insist on keeping things they have no need for, to excess. While the disorder itself is often more of a cause for empathy than anything else, being […]
20% of these words will capture 80% of your attention. If you’re not familiar with the Pareto Principle, it goes like this: 20% of sources cause 80% of effects. It started when a mathematician in Italy named Vilfredo Pareto calculated out that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people, […]