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Leasing

Conducting Tenant Screening the Right Way in 2014

Good tenant screening is absolutely essential for successful property management. A few extra hours screening tenants thoroughly can save you days, weeks or even months of headaches down the line. There are many new services available through 2014 that will help you in conducting thorough tenant screenings, and there are some tips that are always relevant.

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Leasing

Five Considerations for Property Owners When Renting to Students

If you own a rental property near a university or community college, then it’s likely that there’s an abundant pool of students who are looking for off-campus housing. You may have avoided this demographic because for any numbers of reasons, such as their lack of credit history, uncertainty during summer months, and individuality.

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Maintenance

How to Reduce Your Maintenance and Repair Costs

Maintenance and repair costs can eat quickly into any landlord’s income, especially first-time landlords that don’t adequately protect themselves. If you’re looking for some ways to reduce your overall maintenance and repair costs, you’ll need to plan things through from the very beginning.

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Maintenance

How to Handle Property Inspections for Occupied Units

As the owner of rental properties, whether it be one or multiple units, annual inspections are a vital part of the process. Sometimes, you might have a long-term tenant that religiously renews that lease year after year – and you appreciate that. However, unless you employ a property manager to handle daily operations, property upkeep is your responsibility and you’ll need to perform the occasional inspection while a unit is still occupied.

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Property Management Trends

Student Housing Trends: What’s Hot in 2014 (Webinar Recap)

With our co-hosts Grace Hill and Axiometrics, we hosted a fantastic webinar on Student Housing Trends: What’s Hot in 2014. Our presenter Jay Denton, from Axiometrics (leading provider of market data) covered the market analysis of the growing student housing sector and talked about what you can do in your business to capitalize on this fast growing trend.

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Marketing

Amenities That Attract Student Renters

You’ve likely already considered options like renting by the room with separate contractual leases as a method of attracting student renters. So as property owner, how do you make changes to your property itself that will attract even more of these surefire renters? Here are a few amenities that draw in higher education students.

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Leasing

Maintain Leasing Momentum with On the Spot Closings

Whether you’re a busy property owner or an even busier property leasing agent, whenever you can have a time saving tool in your back pocket that simplifies the entire leasing process, how can you say no? We’ve seen great strides in the mobile leasing technology realm from basic online applications to our fully streamlined process that takes you right down to digitally signing and closing the lease on the spot. On the spot lease completion simply lands more tenants for many reasons that we’ll explore.

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Leasing

5 Ways Property Managers Can Build Long-Term Relationships with Student Renters

Roughly 30% of students enrolled in traditional on-campus degree seeking programs look for off-campus housing. Students watch the budget, but aren’t looking for low-quality options that mirror cramped dormitories and cafeteria meal plans. Echo Boomers are looking for convenience and quality of life.

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Property Management Software

Transitioning From the Paper Trail to Digital Applications

Just reaching your prospective renters through targeted marketing isn’t enough anymore. Without a full toolbox of digital tools you might be missing out on golden opportunities to close more sales. If you are straddling the fence between a paper leasing processes and a digital automated leasing system, here are a few details to help you get off the fence.

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AppFolio

AppFolio Hack Day 2014

We recently held our 5th annual Hack Day and it was a huge success. We caught up with Jon Walker, CTO at AppFolio, to get the scoop on all the details and history behind this awesome event.

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