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3 Steps For Dealing With Tenants And Frozen Pipes

Rental Housing Journal

Here are 3 steps to help deal with tenants and frozen pipes and hopefully avoid the problem in your rentals and the maintenance calls that can result this winter from Keepe. About Keepe: Keepe is an on-demand maintenance solution for property managers and independent landlords.

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What Qualifies as an Emergency Maintenance Request?

Real Property Management Chicago

Many property managers distinguish that they need to work straightaway when a resident calls with an emergency maintenance request. But which maintenance requests are emergencies, necessitating immediate attention, and which can wait a little longer? However, it is definitely during a drought when temperatures reach dangerous levels.

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How to Become a Tiny House Landlord

American Apartment Owners Association

Because of their size, tiny homes are simple to maintain andare less expensive than larger ones in terms of taxes and building, heating, maintenance and repair costs.Renters, property owners and managers have fewer maintenance and repairs to deal with since there is less area to look after.In

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Finding the Perfect Multifamily Property

American Apartment Owners Association

Operating costs can consist of property taxes, real estate agent fees, utilities, maintenance, property management fees, homeowners insurance and legal fees. Youll need to attract and retain quality tenants, establish rent collection processes, conduct regular maintenance and repairs and ensure compliance with local regulations.

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Property managers’ revenue may be growing more than they think [The Lookout]

Buildium

This has put pressure on two other services to generate more revenue to make up for the income theyve lost: rent collection and maintenance. And its difficult for maintenance services to turn a profit when labor and supply costs have risen so far. 41% will expand the services they provide.

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Tax accounting for rental property management: What landlords should know

Buildium

Heres a quick breakdown of those definitions. These include: Advertising for tenants Property management fees Repairs and maintenance Utilities (if paid by the landlord) Insurance premiums These expenses can be subtracted from your rental income, reducing your taxable income. What Counts as Rental Income?

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A new phase in property management companies’ portfolio growth? [The Lookout]

Buildium

But their definition of what qualifies as significant versus slight growth has changed. What we saw was a change in how much those companies plan to expand. Just as many companies told us that they plan to grow by a significant amount over the next two years.