by Denise Supplee | Last updated Jul 2, 2020 | General Property Management, Move-Out & Eviction, Spark Blog |
If you own or manage rentals long enough, you’ll eventually have to go through the eviction process. Evictions are expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with pitfalls. No really; they can take anywhere from two to twelve (12!) months. Many landlords make...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jul 2, 2020 | Advertising & Tenant Screening, Leasing Issues, Move-Out & Eviction, Spark Blog |
Professional tenants are vampires. They suck the lifeblood of both your property and the neighborhood, moving in with no intention to pay, and living rent-free for up to two years. If you think I’m being melodramatic, imagine paying the mortgage on your property for...
by Denise Supplee | Jun 28, 2018 | Advertising & Tenant Screening, General Property Management, Move-Out & Eviction, Spark Blog |
As landlords and property managers, we often focus so much on choosing the well-paying tenant, we forget that there are other tenant characteristics that can make managing properties a nightmare. Here are three of my worst tenant archetypes: their modus operandi, how...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 30, 2018 | General Property Management, Move-Out & Eviction, Spark Blog |
Rental property repairs and maintenance add up. Quickly. In fact, most landlords lose between 5-8% of their rents to non-CapEx-related repairs and maintenance, over the long term. Often it’s the kind of work that you could pretty easily do yourself, rather than...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Oct 17, 2017 | Advertising & Tenant Screening, General Property Management, Leasing Issues, Move-Out & Eviction, Spark Blog |
What’s the #1 profit killer for landlords? You guessed it – tenant turnovers. Between repairs and property upgrades (new paint, new carpeting, etc.), vacancy costs, advertising costs, time spent showing the property, and of course fixing any serious damage...
by Denise Supplee | Last updated May 11, 2020 | General Property Management, Move-Out & Eviction, Real Estate News, Spark Blog |
When did we as a society start criminalizing landlords? Like so many other creeping, insidious changes in our society, it didn’t happen overnight. An early example took place in Kentucky, when a 69-year-old landlord was charged criminally because he leased to...