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Is Your Tenant a Drug Liability? More and more landlords today are forced to deal with the issue of drugs being produced or manufactured on their premises. Marijuana grow-ops continue to be an issue while methamphetamine labs are growing in popularity nationwide. It is important for landlords to ...
08/03/2012
What Makes a Renter Choose an Apartment? Even if they don’t know it, tenants have to be impressed in a few key areas before they’re ready to make out a check for a security deposit and rent an apartment. Although student renters are often a bit more constrained by physical location, they still wa...
08/02/2012
Tips for Screening Tenants who Own Pets Although many landlords are concerned with allowing pets on their property, there are two sides to everything. In fact, often having a pet will make a tenant more responsible and involved in caring for your property. With that said, if you decide to allow a...
08/01/2012
Are Your Expectations for Tenants Too High? Every landlord has an idea of his or her dream tenant: someone who will care for the property perfectly, always pay the rent on time, and be friendly to their neighbors. But when deciding on a tenant, it is important to be reasonable with your expectati...
07/30/2012
Benefits of Prefab Investment Properties When you are a new landlord looking to break into the market, coming up with the cash to buy the investment property can be a big strain. However, in recent years, the changing trends with prefabricated homes have created a more affordable option that tena...
07/25/2012
Leasing a Property With a Pool Although it is common for short-term rentals in vacation areas to have pools, it is less common to have them in properties with traditional leases. This is because there are a number of things that landlords really need to think about in order to determine if having...
07/23/2012
A foray into the world of investment property ownership can seem like the easiest thing in the world to a would-be landlord. But in reality it is a lot of hard work, and there are many new landlords who find that they are in over their heads. If you feel you may be in this boat, know that you are...
07/20/2012
Handling a Weedy Problem It is the season when everything is beginning to bloom, and while many of the perennial flowers popping up are beautiful, there are less appealing things following suit – namely, weeds. Dandelions, clover, tall spikey things (does anyone actually know the name of those?);...
07/19/2012
Preventing Criminal Activity on Your Property When you are a landlord, you can’t always control what takes place on your property. But unfortunately you can be liable if you end up with tenants who decide to conduct illegal activity while living there. This puts you in a complicated position, and...
07/16/2012
Are You Better Off Renting a Vacation Home or a Leased Property? When you’re looking at making your first investment and delving into the world of property rentals, you’ve got a decision to make – are you going to rent your property as a short-term rental (or vacation rental), or are you going to...
07/11/2012
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AppFolio provides cost-effective, web-based property management software that allows residential property managers to more effectively market, manage and grow their business. Our online property management software includes complete accounting and property management functionality with the ability to email work-orders, owner statements and resident communications. Integrated marketing features allow you to post vacancy ads to Craigslist, your website and hundreds of sites on the Internet.