Are we on the verge of a market collapse?
It’s hard to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has been upon us for 6 months. It seems like just yesterday that we were all leading normal, busy, and maybe sometimes chaotic lives, mask-free, but this pandemic is like nothing we have ever experienced before or likely anything we will experience again. However, despite all of…
Read MoreDisposing of property left behind at your rental
As property managers, we get asked this question a lot in our jobs – your tenant moves out of the property and yet leads you a pile of junk that they expect that you will just take care of for them, right? Absolutely not! Let’s be honest, when a tenant moves out, regardless of the…
Read MoreThe Top 10 Indoor Plants for you
Indoor houseplants are a great way to have clean air in low light settings around your house and are an easy home decor choice that naturally purify your indoor air, are beneficial to your health, accentuate your room design, and can be an instant pick-me-up in any room. How cool is that? But, if you’re anything…
Read MoreHow to spot a rental scam
Over the last number of months, I’ve come across a number of tenants (not a ton of them) who have told me horror stories of being duped out of thousands of dollars and falling prey to a rental scam. I genuinely feel for these people and often think to myself, how could they have fallen…
Read MoreHow to deal with a tenant that wants out of their lease
Your tenant reaches out to you and asks if there’s a way to get out of their lease! Oh crap, what do you do? Believe it or not, this has happened to us in our management company multiple times during COVID-19 but also prior to that. So, what do you do? As you’ve probably noticed…
Read MoreHow to deal with cooling issues during the hot summer months
As the summer months warm up, the number one concern you will likely hear from your tenants is that there house is not cooling down. This isn’t overly complicated it comes down to one simple thing – changing the furnace filter. Let’s face it, as much as we would all like to think, hope, maybe…
Read MoreWorking with your Tenants during COVID-19
As we slowly begin month 5 of COVID-19 it’s fair to say this time hasn’t been easy on Landlords. Let’s be honest, the common fallacy about landlords is that we are made of money but we all know that’s not the case. Even the colloquialism of the name “Landlord” is archaic. The Land Lord! In…
Read MoreLaunching the new Welcome Home Learning Centre
Welcome to the newly created Welcome Home Learning Centre! I created this section of our website as a way to share knowledge that I, along with our company, have learned along our own real estate journey. The Learning Centre will be your source for property management tips, rental market facts, and more. The goal of…
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