So should you, as a landlord, offer free wifi as an incentive to sign a lease with you? It’s an option that more landlords are considering, particularly those who are moving toward an online payment setup with their tenants for collecting monthly rental payments....
Immediately after an eviction case is won by the landlord, the landlord has to … wait. While eviction laws vary, many times the tenant automatically has a few days to appeal the eviction order....
First of all, it’s essential that you find out the truth about someone’s status as a sex offender. Do a thorough criminal background check, which should include an exhaustive search through a national and/or state database of registered sex offenders....
If you’re a first-time landlord (or even if you’ve just always been a “do it yourself-er kind of guy or gal), you may want to get up to speed on your state’s laws in terms of how to handle a security deposit. In the United States, there are clear rules and regulations you have to follow… and if you don’t know what they are, you could get in a mess of hot water....
The process of tenant screening is to weed out problem tenants from the pool of qualified applicants. While many details found in a background check or credit report make it easy to disqualify an applicant, sometimes you’ll find an applicant who almost passes all your criteria, or just barely misses the credit score you’re looking for....
In fact, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, real estate management and property management position openings are expected to increase at a faster than average rate until at least 2016....
There are literally dozens of complaints that landlords make about some of their tenants, but in the interest of time, we managed to condense them into ten. So what can a landlord do to avoid experiencing the majority of these kinds of tenant nightmares? Three words: Always screen tenants....