Imagine your tenant calls and tells you your property has ants. Or bedbugs. Or cockroaches. Or rats. What do you do? What could you have done to avoid that call in the first place? Pest infestation is one...

Now that the holidays are in the rearview mirror, a new reality has settled in: it’s winter! This is great news for ski bunnies; but for many landlords and property managers, it means bracing for the impact that...

It’s often the big bells and whistles in multifamily dwellings that attract residents, whether it’s on-site fitness centers, Wi-Fi throughout the site, or coffee bars in the common area. But to keep residents there long after the allure...

The Old Farmer’s Almanac was a coffee table book in our house growing up—a necessity for harsh New England winters! And this year, the trusty Almanac is predicting some rough weather: snow is expected to start falling in...

Bed bugs are probably every landlord and tenant’s worst nightmare. And, the day my roommates and I had to tell ours we’d found a few in our couch was incredibly stressful. But at the time we thought, this...

A tense landlord-tenant dispute in Long Beach, California has made its way into local headlines. It all started last year, when one of the tenants living at 3810 Ocean Blvd. was continuously sick. After running a series of...

As much fun as Labor Day cookouts are, they mean summer is quickly coming to an end. Already, the summer heat is fading into cool, crisp fall weather—and this means it’s time to start prepping your rental properties...

While meteorologists define hurricane season as June through November, the so-called peak hurricane season generally lasts from August through October, when Atlantic (and Hawaiian) waters are warmest, and conditions for large tropical cyclones are at their prime. As...