Corporate Housing 101
Published Date: 2009-08-25
If you're a landlord or real estate investor and have never heard of corporate housing, you are missing out on a new real estate trend that could make you more money.
Corporate housing is an...
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Property Management Toolbox
Published Date: 2009-08-25
If your rental unit is currently unoccupied, it may be a good idea to engage in some preventative maintenance before the next tenants' occupancy.
Prophylactic measures include doing things as simple...
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Corporate Housing 101
Published Date: 2009-08-20
Corporate housing can be confusing because not all corporate housing is the same. In fact, there are three main types of corporate housing:
(1) Serviced Apartments
(2) Managed Corporate...
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Corporate Housing 101
Marketing a Rental
Published Date: 2009-08-17
Remember most of your potential tenants will not personally see your property before they rent it and are going to be making their lodging choice directly from the photos you have posted on the CHBO...
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Property Management Toolbox
Published Date: 2009-08-16
Need to cosmetically upgrade faded paint, chipped walls, scratched floors or heavily worn carpets or even remodel a rental?
There's the do-it-yourself method and then there's professional help;...
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Corporate Housing 101
Financial, Legal and Tax
Published Date: 2009-08-10
I keep reading articles about how the American consumer wants to negotiate on everything they buy and how even in large box stores consumers are getting deals just by asking. Negotiating is nothing...
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Corporate Housing 101
Marketing a Rental
Published Date: 2009-08-07
Believe it or not, the art of cold-calling applies in the field of property management as well. So why should you pick up that phone?
1. It's a renters' market.
2. The hey days of the dot-com...
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Property Management Toolbox
Published Date: 2009-08-06
If you're furnishing your home as a corporate rental, don't buy a bed with a foot board. We got a request this week from a potential tenant who is tall - he requires a king bed or queen bed without a...
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CHBO in the News
Corporate Housing 101
Published Date: 2009-08-04
This week CorporateHousingbyOwner.com and my other business, AvenueWest, were featured inForbes magazine.
Forbes touts corporate housing as the "better alternative" to hotels - something...
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