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2013
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The holidays are over, and we are embarking on a new year. It’s a good time to think back about what we are thankful for from 2012. Your tenants are definitely something to be thankful for. Tenants are the foundation of your whole business. Good, dependable tenants make property management run sm...
01/30/2013
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Raising Rents Without Raising Turnover (Webinar Recap) We co-hosted a fantastic webinar with Grace Hill titled “Raising Rents Without Raising Turnover” featuring Doug Chasick, the Apartment Doctor. Along with being a great educator, Doug has years of property management experience in the multifam...
01/28/2013
Posted on 22. Jan, 2013 by Marc Courtenay in Real Estate It’s official! Home prices are on track to have their first yearly gain since 2006. This would make it the strongest year of price growth since home prices began to plunge, reaching their nadir in 2009. The Commerce Department said on Dec.2...
01/24/2013
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Property managers and landlords often put themselves in risky situations when it comes to showing properties to rent. However, they don’t need to be putting their own safety on the line and the safety of the current resident. Landlords can follow these safety tips on their next showing of a unit ...
01/23/2013
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Leasing up your apartment community can be challenging in the best of time. But for smaller property management companies or those managing smaller properties, it can become even more difficult to compete with larger companies with a more robust marketing budget. Already behind the eight ball, th...
01/16/2013
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When you’re a landlord, you automatically take on responsibility that you may never have expected. But liability issues are just part of the territory when you have the potential to make a profit from your investment. So, you do need to be aware of the causes of liability issues that you can expe...
01/14/2013
Posted Jan. 08 by Marc Courtenay on PropertyManager.com An investor friend of mine called recently to ask if I could recommend some competent property managers in our area. Fortunately I knew of several so I gave him the names plus the pros and cons of each one (my way of being helpful and object...
01/10/2013
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When shopping for your first investment property, you do have the option of selecting between a newer property and an older one. There are pros and cons to consider on all sides of the equation here, and even then, the correct answer may not be quite so black-and-white! Pros of a New Home The pot...
01/04/2013
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