What’s the Best Property Management Software for Your Business?
Why work when you can automate? The whole point of investing in rental properties is passive income. If you’re spending your nights and weekends manually collecting rental applications, writing lease agreements or collecting rent payments, you’re doing it...
Learning Real Estate Investing: What 11 Pro Investors Wish They’d Known Earlier
Real estate investments are expensive, even if you finance them. That means mistakes are expensive. I already shared some of the real estate investing lessons I wish I’d known when I was just starting out. So I figured I’d open it up to other professional real estate...
20 Questions to Ask Before Starting the Rental Application Process
Time is worth more than money. You can always earn more money, but your remaining time on this earth is limited – and more so every minute of every day. Which is probably why you became a landlord in the first place: to build passive income. And if you’ve been around...
Rental Application in California: A Quick Landlord Guide
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a landlord, it’s that good returns follow good tenants. So what do California landlords need to know about collecting rental applications and screening applicants, to only lease to high-ROI tenants? Too many landlords...
Should Landlords Require Credit References with All Rental Applications?
On the hunt for new tenants?Few landlords would call the tenant screening process fun—but that doesn’t mean you should skip any part of it. That includes asking for credit references from your applicants.If you’re already running a credit report for applicants, then...Learn More About:
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The Charming & Witty Founders of Spark Rental
Denise Supplee is a landlord and former property manager, with over a decade's experience in legal forms for landlords and property managers. She's also a champion mom and licensed realtor.
Brian Davis is a landlord and real estate investor with 15 rental properties. Husband, rental industry expert and compulsive traveler, Brian visited ten countries last year.
Our goal in building Spark Rental? To help other landlords & property managers automate their rentals like we've done, so they can spend more time with the people and passions they love.