Category: Leasing

Tips for Writing a Custom Rental Agreement Renting out apartments, condos, or single family houses comes with significant risk. Tenants can balk on paying rent for any number of reasons, or damage the unit, or even sublet it without your knowledge. Your cashflow can be threatened and your ownership too could be lost. You may…

Contactless Virtual Leasing Of the many interesting trends landlords and property managers will experience this year, contactless virtual leasing will likely be the most wanted. The leasing or renting process can be time-consuming for both landlords and tenants and dangerous to health. The average tenant travels to the rental unit 3 times before signing. During…

Sign More Apartment Leases with Pre-Suasion Given how difficult it is for apartment managers to fill apartment vacancies during the pandemic, especially in downtown regions, you might enjoy a little lift in leasing success. A recent article from NAA offers an interesting angle to increase apartment lease signings. They've dubbed it pre-suasion -- the conditioning…

How to Acquire Higher Quality Rental Tenants In business, some tasks are more important to your end profitability than most appreciate. Finding good tenants is perhaps the number one way to a more profitable home rental business. While landlords often react to challenges by cutting services, offering concessions, evicting tenants, or even selling some properties,…

Lease Agreements 101 – Part 2 In our previous article, we mentioned that lease agreements often contain some complicated provisions. And these require tenants to spend time to read each and understand them.  There’s more. A lease agreement can be lengthened with house rules and other addendums. In this article, let’s take a deeper look at other…

How to Manage Tenant Leases Easily Tenant leases are at the core of the relationship between the property manager and the tenant. The lease defines the terms of a lease and generates automated accounting transactions. Leases are often created in a non standard fashion, and often landlords simply copy a lease they found on the…