Tenant Screening 101: What to Do with EVERY Rental Application
Imagine cash flow from a rental property as water running through a pipe. Every time the pipe leaks, you lose money. Once you’ve purchased a property, your returns (ROI) are based on minimizing those leaks. So how do you maximize ROI and cash flow, while...
Smart Rental: 7 Cheap Tech Upgrades to Boost Your Rents & ROI
Looking for a little extra pizzazz to make your empty rental stand out and rent for more? Consider making it a “smart home.” For a few hundred dollars, you can trick out your rental property with connected devices that make it easily programmable and...
Should Landlords Rent to Illegal Immigrants?
*Note on Terminology: Conservatives and liberals can’t even agree on terminology, with conservatives using the pejorative “illegal aliens” and liberals using the cuddly “undocumented immigrants.” We’ll split the difference here and use the term “illegal immigrants,”...
Beyond Credit Reports: Subtle Red Flags in Tenant Screening
https://sparkrental.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Subtle-Red-Flags-in-Tenant-Screening.mp4 In this Video: Tips for verifying rental history with past landlords Discover why eviction history reports are the crux of the tenant screening How to conduct a thorough...
The Goldilocks Conundrum: When Is a Rental Under-Improved, Over-Improved or Just Right?
As someone who has over-improved his fair share of rental properties, I’ve learned some expensive answers to that question. How do you calculate returns on improvements, when each neighborhood (and sometimes each block) is different? How do you draw a line when...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.