Property Management News

Evictions can be a slow and painful process with legal procedures that can end up in a court battle. For landlords, evictions can lead to anything from squatters to serial evictees who routinely leave belongings behind – and leave the property in a mess. Jesse Holland, the president of Sunrise Management & Consulting in Albany, N.Y., has experienced his share of problems. Once, Holland says he had a tenant who left a bottle of gasoline filled with batteries inside a unit. He had to call the police who brought in a bomb squad to remove the device. “You never know what somebody is going to leave behind for you,” Holland says. More regularly, Holland and his team are stuck with... Read more

Apartment evictions in 2014 were at their lowest level in five years, according to a new report from credit reporting agency TransUnion. The agency recorded 3.4 million evictions last year, down from 3.5 million in 2013. Eviction proceedings vary by state, but generally a landlord needs legal cause for kicking someone out of a rental unit — like failing to pay rent or violating terms of the rental agreement — and the landlord must give the tenant notice of the problem and time to correct it before starting eviction proceedings. Research tenants’ rights in your state to better understand how eviction might affect you. Whether or not you’ll be evicted for missing a rent payment or... Read more