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.
Living alone doesn’t have to crimp your style — just know what your problems are going to be, and get them before they get you. It doesn’t matter if you’re moving out of your Dad’s house, or the dorm where you shared a kitchen with six other people — when you move into your first […]
Sorry, We’re Not Talking About Your Neighbors (This Time). If you’ve ever seen — or think you’ve seen — a mouse skitter across your kitchen floor in the middle of the night, you’ve felt genuine adrenaline. And if you’ve ever seen a cockroach waving its antenna at you from your kitchen wall, well, you’ve felt […]
Making a Big Change Can Take So Little! One of our more popular posts from a while back was all about decorating your apartment without annoying your landlord. Well, it’s been a while since that post, and in that time, we’ve had a few clever tenants teach us a thing or two about what a […]
Step 1: Be a low-risk, high-responsibility tenant. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit! When you’re trying to get into a rental home, there are several obstacles to be aware of. First, naturally, you need to have enough money on hand to pay all of the costs of moving — there are a lot of them. […]
If you can afford rent, you can afford furniture — as long as you’re willing to take it one piece at a time. Moving into your new rental home can be quite exciting, but it can also be draining — particularly on the wallet. Obtaining all of the furniture you might need isn’t easy, especially […]
Bathrooms are usually pretty much the last place in the house that someone voluntarily spends an extended amount of time — but there are quite a few reasons why the room deserves your attention anyway. Both modern psychological theory and ancient Chinese feng shui rules will tell you that owning the spaces you must use […]
Where does your security deposit go? What can it be used for? Learn it all here. A security deposit is an amount of money taken from a prospective tenant and held in escrow until that tenant moves out. Many tenants believe that a security deposit is only used when they move out, and only used […]
It’s Not Like Those Instructions Made That Much Sense in the First Place… A tenant recently introduced us to a staggeringly clever website: Ikea Hackers. This is the kind of thing that every tenant with even a hint of DIY in their bones should be aware of. The projects on this website are (mostly) rental-friendly […]
Recognize A Great Landlord With A Small Gift. (I am writing this blog post under objection, because we’re generally not self-serving enough to post a guide that might as well read ‘how to give us things.’ But we had a few tenants ask us this year, ‘is it appropriate to give your landlord a Christmas […]
Step One: Make Some Money If you’re moving into a rental for the first time, you might be surprised and how complicated it can be to keep track of your money, even when it comes to something as simple as paying your rent on time. Creating a budget is one of those skills that everyone […]