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With the media coverage recently about the apparently haunted rental that caused the tenants to go screaming into the night, landlords are beginning to wonder exactly what they are responsible for disclosing to their tenants. We gave you some tips on how to avoid getting into these situations in ...
09/26/2012
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Can You Deduct Vacant Property Expenses? In a down economy or slow year, a landlord might face problems with filling their units and properties. The expense of a vacant property can be hard on the landlord. For that reason, you always want to look for ways to save on vacant properties. If you are...
09/24/2012
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When Lease-Breaking Tenants Get Creative When you are a landlord, you have to be prepared to deal with just about anything. A recent landlord/tenant story that was making news headlines shows that it is possible to encounter all sorts of people that attempt to pull off all sorts of strange things...
09/21/2012
Will Investing in Property Remain Affordable? If you are hoping to purchase an investment property in the upcoming years, it is important to understand what might happen to residential mortgage rates. According to the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s meeting this summer, it is expected tha...
09/17/2012
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Property Maintenance Between Tenants When one tenant moves out and another one is scheduled to move in, you want your unit to be in presentable condition. Different landlords have different ideas of how to accomplish this, but there are a number of things that you can and should consider doing. P...
09/11/2012
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Avoiding Conflicts with Tenants Long-term renters often have stories about dealing with bad landlords, but it goes both ways – there are tenants out there that are prone to conflict. As a landlord, tenants are your bread and butter, and you’ve got to keep them happy. However, you do have to set l...
09/07/2012
Determining if a Tenant Is Better Than Their Bad Credit When you are a landlord in this economy, you have to offer some concessions to applicants. After all, there are many wonderful renters who have poor credit scores (as you’ll discover when completing a tenant screening report) after experienc...
09/04/2012
Can You Exclude Children from a Rental Property? Many new landlords would be lying if they said that they hadn’t at least considered the option of making their rental for adults only. Teenagers old enough to sign a lease on their own and families with kids can both come attached with greater risk...
08/31/2012
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Costs New Landlords Don't Anticipate When you decide to become a landlord and rent out your property, you may assume that all of your costs will be the same, even though the property is making a transition from a primary home to an investment property. Make sure that you’re prepared to deal with ...
08/30/2012
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Simple, Attractive Landscaping for Rentals When you have a rental property, you do always run the risk that the tenants will not effectively take care of it the way that you would. This tends to be even truer when it comes to the landscaping. You should try to protect your property by choosing lo...
08/29/2012