Marketing a Rental
My mom used to tell me either you got the eye for design or you don't. I, for one, don't have that eye and struggle sometimes making sense of decor. While designing your furnished rental isn't...
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CHBO in the News
Corporate Housing By Owner (CHBO), a website that links individual property owners offering furnished, short term rental properties with those in need of furnished temporary housing, has teamed...
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Property Management Toolbox
It seems in these current tumultuous economic times with unemployment figures up, income levels down and foreclosures looming all over the country, we have to learn to roll with the punches when...
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One way a landlord can protect herself against bad tenants is by conducting a simple background check on each and every potential tenant; after all, you want to make sure your home and the...
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Property Management Toolbox
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that wood damage can be repaired. Like treating broken objects with glue, wood can be refilled and refaced. I came across this problem when a tenant vacated a...
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Marketing a Rental
As a do-it-yourself corporate housing landlord, you may wonder when is the right time to raise your rental rate? Consider this: First, I was once given this advice: Your rental rate should have...
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Property Management Toolbox
The rainy, wet season may be good for cleansing the air and watering our farm lands, but along with inclement weather comes pest burrowing their way into our homes. The rainy weather of late has...
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Financial, Legal and Tax
If you’re in the business to buy a new home – or investment property – check out this video clip from Barbara Corcoran, the real estate expert for NBC’s The Today Show. Corcoran discusses...
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Property Management Toolbox
We've talked before about how to prevent and treat bed bugs in your furnished rental property. Now the National Apartment Association and Orkin are hosting a series of webinars in its, “Bed...
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