Lawmakers in Inglewood, California this week used an emergency ordinance to ban some evictions and enact rent control, sidestepping the usual legislative channels. The unusual move was initiated by the mayor, who asked for a 5 percent rent cap. Tenant advocates,...
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Rental Property Management Tips
3 Costly Tenant Scams and How to Avoid Them
How do you lose money in a landlords' market? Rent to one bad tenant. The tighter the rental market, the more likely landlords will encounter tenant scams. Watch out for these costly tricks, and keep your rental property profitable: Scam #1: Damaging the property,...
The Hidden Damage Tenants Leave Behind
Landlords have a limited amount of time to catch damage from an exiting tenant before the new tenant moves in. Those landlords lucky enough to collect security deposits have strict time limitations for discovering damage to the property. Tenants, unfortunately, tend...
How to Use Your Tenancy Agreement to Prevent Noise Complaints
Excessive noise is a common tenant complaint and resolving noise complaints eats up a lot of a landlord's time and energy. Fortunately, it is possible to prevent many of these complaints by addressing the problem in the tenancy agreement: It's important for tenants to...
Reputation Matters: Are Landlords Losing the Ratings Game?
Liar. Mentally unstable. Unprofessional. Thief. These are only a few of the choice words found in landlord reviews currently posted online. Take a look at local review and rating websites and you'll likely find long lists of tenant complaints. One landlord has 13...
What Landlords Need to Know About Premise Liability
Verdicts for premise liability cases have grown in recent years, highlighting a disturbing trend for landlords. It's no longer uncommon to see sympathetic juries award $1,000,000 or more for injuries that occur at a rental property. What is Premise Liability? Premise...
The Key to Attracting and Retaining Good Tenants
Every property manager knows that good tenants improve profitability. A new report prepared by the experts at Reputation.com proves that customer service matters when it comes to attracting and retaining the best tenants. Reputation.com, the first and only complete...
Oregon Mulls Ban on Pet Rent
Oregon lawmakers have proposed a measure that would ban landlords there from charging pet fees or pet rent. Landlords can continue to charge security deposits. However, the measure still is stoking some controversy. Tenants fear that no pet rent will translate into no...
7 Tips for Resolving — and Preventing — Noise Complaints
Noise is one of the most common tenant complaints, and most landlords will need to diffuse a dispute at some point. Here are some tips to help restore peace -- and quiet -- to your rental property: Doing nothing is the worst option for landlords. Even if the noise...
Tenants Scam 4 Landlords
It's a landlord's worst nightmare: no rent, property damage, and months to wait for an eviction. The only way this gets worse is discovering that the same bad tenants have scammed other landlords. A couple in Ontario have been ordered to pay over $20,000 in combined...