rents: HomePointe Sacramento Area Rent Survey 3rd Quarter 2008 - 07/23/08 06:23 PM
Dear Real Estate Professional:
Our 2008 Sacramento Area 3rd Quarter Residential Rental Survey is new available. You can also access this survey at our website along with past surveys by clicking this link: http://www.homepointe.com/owner_services_rental_survey.asp .
I wish I had news that rents were rising and vacancies dropping. Instead, the market has (0 comments)
rents: Shouldn't the rent cover the mortgage? - 05/11/08 01:09 AM
Many property owners that have just purchased their first rental think that the rent should cover the mortgage payment. Those of us in the property management business know that this is just not true.
If it was true, would a landlord that paid all cash and had no mortgage (8 comments)
rents: Sacramento Rental Market May 2008 - 05/05/08 01:33 AM
The rental market is continuing down the middle path as it has done for the past six months. While there is plenty of demand for rentals in the Sacramento Region, there are still plenty of houses to rent. But, you say, the sales market is pretty bad, this should improve the rental (0 comments)
rents: If I cannot pay the rent on time, what should I do? - 04/18/08 06:26 PM
Your first efforts should be to figure out a way to pay your rent on time using whatever resources you have. You might borrow the funds from friends, family, your bank, or whatever other resources you have.
Please bear in mind that HomePointe has no authority to allow you to (3 comments)
rents: 2008 2nd Quarter Residential Rental Survey for the Sacramento Region is Available - 04/09/08 02:37 PM
HomePointe's 2008 2nd Quarter Residential Rental Survey has just been published. You can access this survey at our website along with past surveys by clicking this link: http://www.homepointe.com/owner_services_rental_survey.asp . The Sacramento rental market appears to be holding its own, but rents are not rising. We feel this is due to the many (0 comments)
rents: How many rental websites do you currently advertise in? How do you get them there? - 02/17/08 11:24 AM
We currenty advertise all of our rental vacancies in the following websites: (we use http://www.craigslist.com/ , http://www.postlets.com/ , http://www.netrent.com/ , http://www.googlebase.com/ , http://www.vast.com/ , http://www.move.com/ , http://www.hotpads.com/ , http://www.lycos.com/ , http://www.oodle.com/ , and http://www.homepointe.com/ ). Note that some of these websites post to other websites. For example, www.NetRent.com posts to googlebase, (2 comments)
rents: What do I need to do to prepare my property for rental? - 01/12/08 04:14 PM
Over the years I have been asked this question many times. In the current market, many solvent homeowners are becoming reluctant landlords in the greater Sacramento area since they cannot sell their property right now. Converting a owner occupied property into a rental property is straightforward, but it is not the (0 comments)
rents: Sacramento Rental Market - 12/23/07 06:14 PM
The current Sacramento rental market for single family homes is holding steady. At HomePointe Property Management we have seen new accounts from investors dry up over the past year. However, due to the slow sales market, many new clients are signing up to rent their homes because they cannot sell. Renters (3 comments)