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By: Stephen C. Duringer, Esq. The Duringer Law Group, PLC QUESTION Just opened up the mail, and what do you suppose was in it? A notice from my bank informing me that one of my tenant’s rent check was returned unpaid because he placed a stop payment on it. Imagine that, it’s now mid-month, no warning, no phone call, the deadbeat didn’t even have the courtesy of letting me know he was going to stop payment on his check. It kind of makes sense though, he asked a couple of weeks ago if I’d let him out of his lease early, guess his girlfriend has a nicer place and he wanted to move in with her. I called his phone number, got a recording saying that it had been... Read more
By: Attorneys Kenneth Ziskin & Michael J. Wittick For decades, families facing exposure to Estate Taxes have used Family Limited Partnerships and LLCs to discount...
By: Coach JoAnna Burks www.coachjoannaburks.com THE EPIDEMIC Stress is commonplace in America; an epidemic that can drain you both personally and professionally, if you...
To Increase Rents Or Not To Increase Rents That Is The Question! A Landlords Guide to Knowing when to Increase Rents As owners of a property management firm and board...
By: Neil Fjellestad and Chris De Marco FBS Property Management RENT We have taken up in previous articles some of the regional economic data that spells a renaissance of...
Cold Calling Is Out & Outreach Is In By: Elaine Simpson Founder: Occupancy Solutions LLC. It seems that throughout my 27 years in the multi family industry, I have always been responsible for some sort of cold calling or outreach to increase occupancy at my properties. In the beginning I failed miserably and looking back, I know why I was not successful in my cold calling efforts and have learned, practiced and perfected techniques to become highly successful in driving traffic to the communities I work with to increase occupancy. The first realization was that I should not have been “cold calling”; I should have been doing “outreach”. Most people assume that... Read more
Tampa, Fla., is among the roachiest big cities in America. Seattle may be the rattiest. Philadelphia has more mouse sightings per housing unit than any other U.S....
When a tenant must move out of a rental property before the lease expires, another person may choose to take over the former tenant’s lease with a Lease Assumption...
Marketing properties through drone technology is no longer a fly-by-night operation. Once considered too futuristic for everyday business applications, drones or...
Eww, did you just step in what you think you stepped in? One of the great things about being a landlord is enabling people to keep their pets when they rent. But,...
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