How do You Ensure that You Find the Best Tenants?

How do we ensure we are finding you the best tenants for the property?  That is a great question because bad tenants can cost you a lot of money. They can damage the property, not pay their rent, and force us to evict them. All of which cost a lot of money and lead to […]

Do You Have Hoarders Living in Your Property?

Have you seen the show Hoarders? It depicts people with compulsive hoarding issues that cause them to collect things…lots of things. Hoarding leads to a home filled with trash and clutter. So much so that rooms get blocked off or it becomes unsafe to navigate the apartment. Hoarders can also lead to damage to the […]

The Top Five Reasons Lease Options Fail

The concept of the Lease Option is excellent in theory. A property owner leases a home to someone who cannot currently qualify for a mortgage loan. They do so with a specific and separately written agreement that tenant will acquire and purchase the home in a specific period of time. Normally the tenant gives a […]

Turning around an apartment complex

We wanted to share with you a success story. Today we filled the last of a series of vacancies for the 333 Washington, an 18 unit apartment building in Elyria. When we took over management in October 2012, this building had a 50% occupancy and of those units several were under eviction. There were a […]

How to vary your rental marketing and tenant screening for the area

The market has been ruthless to many landlords as well as opened up new oppurtunities to acquire properties and make more money in real estate investments than every before. When looking to lease out a property and find the best tenant you need to keep in mind the following and vary your strategy according to […]