By Ben Holubecki, STML Realty Group, Glen Ellyn, IL As the weather warms up and the rental leasing season gets into full swing it is easy to get caught up in the rush of showing requests, rental applications, lease signings, and new tenant walk through appointments that usually fill these months
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05/31/2011
By Peter Lamandre, Better By Design Real Estate, Scranton, PA “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” - Benjamin Franklin We all work hard to build our reputations. I was speaking with a potential property management client yesterday, when I asked
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05/24/2011
By Geoff Roberts, Buildium, Boston, MA When determining rental rates, you want to strike just the right balance between maximizing your profit and remaining competitive in your local rental market. Following are some tips for finding that magic number. Look at rates of competitorsAs a property m
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05/23/2011
By Ben Holubecki, STML Realty Group, Glen Ellyn, IL I’ve always had a lot of respect for professionals who truly learn from their mistakes. Many of the top companies and executives in the world admit that they have made plenty of them over the years. What sets the successful companies apart fr
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05/18/2011
By Salvatore J. Friscia, San Diego Premier Property Management, San Diego, CA As a property management company the majority of our accounts are derived from real estate investors but many of our accountscome from owners that have only 1 rental unit which is usually a prior primary residence. The
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05/16/2011
By Peter Lamandre, Better by Design Real Estate, Scranton, PA Whether your portfolio is made up of large complexes or scattered smaller units, performing unit and site inspections is an important value-added service that a property management firm provides to their clients. It is also one of the
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05/12/2011
By Ben Holubecki, STML Realty Group, Glen Ellyn, IL I was recently on the phone with a rental property owner who was considering utilizing our leasing and property management services and he asked me an interesting question. He asked me how the downturn in theeconomy and the flood of foreclosur
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05/10/2011
By Geoff Roberts, Buildium, Boston, MA We all had it drilled into our heads as kids: Better safe than sorry! Whether it was through fire drills or being told to wear a helmet when riding my bike, hearing this phrase is amongst my earliest memories. It may sound elementary, but it’s still true. A
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05/09/2011
By Peter Lamandre, Better By Design Real Estate, Scranton, PA I was out and about this week and while on the interstate I pulled behind a contractor that had a QR code on the back of their tow trailer. While I applaud them for embracing an emerging technology, it occurred to me that that may not
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05/05/2011
By Colin McCarthy, J.D., Robinson & Wood, San Jose, CA What do you call 50,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? “A good start.” No doubt many of you have heard this joke or a variant. Well I am a lawyer and I am here to tell you that I am also a human being. I have a wife. I have three children.
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05/04/2011
