One of most frequently asked questions here at allpropertymanagement is: How much will it cost to have my property managed? In the past I had felt comfortable telling property owners that typically a property manager will charge between 6 to 10% of the monthly rent for full service management. But as of late I have become less sure of these stats. There appears to be a flood of new property managers entering the field offering all types of pricing incentives, from fixed rate per property charges or no charges until the property is actually leased. (more…)

Popularity: 40% [?]

I know for many of you this might be old news but you would be surprised how many times I hear…”well I called them once” or “I sent them an email” when I speak to a management company about increasing their conversion rates.

*New account leads close in varying times, from 1 to 60 or 120 days. Leads are hot prospects that should be in your pipeline for today and the long term. You must communicate with your pipeline of qualified leads and respect that these are potential clients for life and over time this will lead to considerable revenue for you and your company. (more…)

Popularity: 8% [?]

It’s been a long haul trying to get www.allpropertymanagement.com to appear at the top of the search engines for our keyterm “property management”. Finally, we can say we have arrived – we’re #1 on Google for this term.

Since we’ve been at #1 on google for a few months, I decided to check my old friend Alexa and see just how much our rank had improved on that site.

So, given our ever improving organic listings I was surprised that Alexa says our rank is getting worse. The last time I checked in late 2006 we were right on the cusp of the top 100,000. Now with much improved traffic they place us around 180,000. I decided to take a look at Compete. Low and behold they have our rank at 26,193 and improving. Now that’s a little better. But why the difference?

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Popularity: 3% [?]