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Tips & Tricks for Renting Your Personal Home

October 26, 2011

I often get owners that decide to rent their personal home either through job change or kids are gone and they can downsize.  The following tips are important to consider: 1.  This is the only time I recommend that you hire a professional property manager for at least one year to manage the property.  The [...]

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Class is over – What did we learn?

October 19, 2011

I teach classes at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA a couple times per year.  It is always great to touch base with consumers to see what is really on their minds.   The take away from the class is that as an Owner you need to know the laws and fair housing.  Take a great [...]

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Annual Preventative Maintenance

October 14, 2011
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9/11 how does it relate to managing rentals?

September 21, 2011

We just observed the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. The take away for me was the reminder of how precious life is and the fact that our lives as we know it can be turned upside down in an instant.  So how does that impact owning rentals? We need to be prepared.  Once you own real [...]

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What to do when things go wrong?

September 15, 2011

Every landlord has had something go wrong with their tenant, the rental, a vendor the list goes on.  How you handle the issue will reveal what kind of landlord you are or the type of business you operate.  I will share with you a recent experience and how I handled it. I offer placement services [...]

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Pets are Family

July 20, 2011

Pets when I was growing up were kept outside and you had one to perform a task – dog for protection, cat as a mouser etc.  Today pets are an integral part of our families and it isn’t uncommon to get Christmas photo cards of the family with Santa and there is Fido in the [...]

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Keep Pets Safe this 4th of July

July 4, 2011

4th of July is a time to celebrate our independance, watch fire works, and have BBQ’s with friends.  It is also the one day out of the year that is the most frightening to your pets. Please keep your pets inside, and with you.  Have the TV on to midigate the sounds of fire works [...]

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July 1, 2011 – Save a Life!

July 1, 2011

Today it is law that all homes have Carbon Monoxide Detectors installed in them. Having personally known people who have died from Carbon Monoxide it is well worth putting the detector in your home. Rental properties have until July 2013, but in our company we have already installed them in all of our units. If [...]

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