Learning to be a Good Tenant: 2

There are more benefits than you might imagine to being a great tenant. For one thing — and this is especially important if you like where you live — it will make your landlord more likely to want to renew your lease, often without a surprise increase in the rent you currently pay. [...]

Rental News, Landlords Are Becoming More Rental-Friendly In 2010: 2

Now that we have informed you just how big renting is going to be in 2010, let’s go into detail about why renting is going to be so big.  One of the major reasons why people are looking to rent versus buying is because of the money.  In this day and age, everyone is looking [...]

Rental News, Landlords Are Becoming More Rental-Friendly In 2010: 1

In this day and age, I can tell you for sure that people are looking not to buy but to rent … this is extremely good news for homeowners that have turned themselves into landlords in order to beat the recession and to get some extra cash via renting their house out.
One trend in the [...]

Landlord Repairs: 2

Now that we have talked a little bit about the paper trail, let’s go ahead and talk about exactly how you should call in a repair to your landlord.  When you are calling in a repair, you need to think about the actual time and importance of the repair that is needed.
For example, if you [...]

Landlord Repairs: 1

When you are renting, it is very important that you make sure that you keep up not only a good working relationship with your landlord but that you feel comfortable enough to report any problems that you might be having.
In the next few blogs, we are going to go through some of the steps that [...]

Becoming A Landlord: 5

Now that we have touched on the rent payment, how you can become a landlord exactly, the tenant screening process, it is now time to finally get to the good stuff.  When you are a landlord, you need to make sure that you keep track of everything – seriously.  You want to make sure that [...]

Becoming A Landlord: 3

If you are becoming a landlord – there are a few things that you should probably look into.  For one, you want to make sure that there is some screening process for your tenants.  I have heard horror stories about landlords having some terrible, terrible tenants and that is not something that you should really [...]

Becoming A Landlord: 2

Now that we have talked a little bit about how you can become a landlord and why most people who are inexperienced are becoming landlords.  Now, let’s go ahead and talk about how you can ease the process of being a landlord and how you can eliminate some of those headaches you are probably experiencing.  [...]

Becoming A Landlord: 1

Whenever you are renting out a space that you own – it can be difficult to take off your homeowner hat and become a landlord.  Becoming a landlord usually it met with a ton of different objections and most of them are from the lack of experience on the landlord’s part.  In the next few [...]