Are you ready to fill your next vacancy?  Worried that if you don't get someone right away, you'll lose rental income?  Here's an unfortunate fact: it will cost a landlord more money to rent to a bad tenant than if they wait to find the right tenant. How can a...

If you run a tenant credit report, and get back a report showing "no credit score available", or "no credit history found", you may have trouble on your hands.  When There Is No Credit Score Available If there is "no credit score" (and you ordered a scored credit...

They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, but in this case, it's the economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is investigating an interesting demographic twist:  more singles are pairing up than ever before. Analysis of demographics over the past couple of years...

Q.  Can you comment in your newsletter about the legality of rejecting students as tenants?  D.W. The answer may depend on where your rental properties are located.  Students - people enrolled in higher education courses, generally are not protected by discrimination...

"We just had to hire a lawyer to help us with an eviction.  Long story short, we did not screen this tenant.  We have no idea how to go about getting credit checks.  What information do we need from tenants?" - P.W. from Hawaii You are not alone. This is an issue that...

What do you do when your tenant screening reports turn up a negative history, but the applicant denies it? For one property manager, there is no "innocent before proven guilty" when it comes to applying for a rental.  The burden stays with the tenant to prove the...

Q: "I find that many of my better rental applicants have pets.  Should I rent to them?" - Canadian landlord   Unless the pet is a service animal, it is generally up to the discretion of a residential tenancy landlord whether to allow pets.  One advantage of allowing...

Discrimination can result from all phases of tenancies, including improper restrictions in rental ads, inappropriate tenant screening, or bad property management policies. Often times a landlord does not realize they may be breaking the law. The Alberta Human Rights...

Just Say No To Vacancies Meadows Real Estate Development and Property Management has 25 years experience building and managing properties for lower-income residents and under-served groups such as grandparents raising grandchildren, frail seniors, and others. As a...

The terminology can be confusing for landlords trying to credit check tenants. For instance, some websites offer free credit reports. Only consumer credit reports are free. The credit reporting agencies do not offer landlord credit reports for free. The only way for a...

A Realtor near Youngstown, Ohio was murdered last week at a vacant home she was showing.  Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder.  Later the same day, a Realtor was murdered at a property he was showing about 40 miles from Youngstown.  The police ...

When the air conditioning broke in a TriBeCa apartment in New York City, the tenant left a message for the property manager, but didn't wait around for a response.  Instead, he checked himself into a suite at the Greenwich Hotel with a $2,900 a night price tag, and...