Tenants
How to Help New Tenants to Feel at Home
When I was a landlord, I liked to do a little extra for new tenants moving in. I'd leave a roll of paper towels and...
Other Top Stories for Property Owners and Managers
- Every time I visit my parents' house, I threaten to bring a commercial-grade dumpster with me the next time around. They just have TOO. MUCH....
- When a tenant goes to jail, their landlord ends up in a sticky situation. Many landlords make the mistake of promptly changing the locks on...
- Evictions can be tricky: One wrong move, and you can wind up making embarrassing or costly mistakes that delay the eviction and disrupt your income...
- Tenant complaints can be either a glass-half-empty, or a glass-half-full situation: You may dread hearing tenants gripe, or you could look at their complaints as...
- Although finding new tenants in this landlord-friendly rental market may not be difficult, retaining good tenants is still more cost-effective in most situations....
- When it comes to screening tenants, running a credit check is an important part of the process. However, interpreting the results of the report may...
- To be an effective rental manager, you need to understand your target market, or, in other words, the specific types of tenants you wish to...
- Renting to roommate tenants, or “co-tenant renters” can be more challenging than renting to a single tenant or family. Renting to multiple, unrelated tenants raises...
- Housing discrimination due to disability is forbidden under the Fair Housing Act, rental managers and owners are legally obligated to give prospective and current tenants...
- How do you treat your tenants? Is this something that you even think about? If you are a landlord you need to be friendly yet...
