Property management accounting basics: The definitive guide

Why do some rental listings bring people crowding through the door, while yours are just so-so? Are their units just better? It’s possible. But more likely, that leasing agent wrote a listing that grabbed the apartment-hunters interest right...

Coast to coast, the real estate market is booming. Anecdotally, it’s easy to point to places like San Francisco or New York City and talk about how strong the market is because of how high rents are. But...

Look up. See those cranes? They represent the tremendous building boom happening from east coast to west. Tower after tower are going up, adding hundreds of apartments and condos to cities’ residential inventory. In many metros, it’s still...

Frozen pipes. Ice dams. Blown heaters. Blown air conditioners. Floods. Tree damage. Fires. Mudslides. Electrical disasters. Tornado damage. Does it feel like El Niño is out to get you? There are steps you can take to protect against...

The terrain of the Pacific Northwest is incredibly diverse: lush rainforests thrive right near coastal plains that stretch for miles. A confluence of mountain ranges, rivers and plateaus provide the perfect backdrop for outdoor enthusiasts, and plentiful rainfall...

It’s just about July, which means school is out and the kids are ready to jump in the pool. Which means: pool maintenance is critical. A broken filter is just not something you want to deal with when...

The cardinal rule of the eviction process is that once you’ve started, you can’t accept rent payments, whether they’re partial payments or cover every single cent of any back-due rent. Doing so would halt the entire eviction, and...

Consider this: maintaining an acre of high-quality lawn turf is, on average, four times as expensive to maintain and requires five times as much manpower for the upkeep needed versus an acre of sustainable landscaping. Few people relish...