photo credit: Phillip Suddick I can’t tell you how many good tenants there are. I’ve really met tons of fabulous people in my work as a property manager. For the most part I really enjoy the tenants I meet. There are by far many more responsible, decent people quietly paying the rent and getting on [...]
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Good Tenants…There Are So Many
February 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Property Management
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How To Cope With Tenant Vs Tenant Drama
February 9th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Property Management, Rental Property
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar Last week a nice lady emailed me about managing her property. She collects the money and does all the repairs…she just can’t take the total bull that her tenants are dishing out. Who can blame her? Tenant drama is probably the greatest problem that landlords actually face. What You Can [...]
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I Don’t Want To Rent To You…If You Have NO JOB and NO CREDIT
February 1st, 2012 · 10 Comments · Property Management, Rental Property
photo credit: quatar I read Exploitative Rent A Norm For Newcomers in the Toronto Star the other day about how “EVIL LANDLORDS” take advantage of new immigrants with no job and no credit by making them pay 6 months or one year’s rent upfront before renting to them. Personally I disagree with this practice of [...]
How To Collect Rent Arrears
January 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Property Management
photo credit: Alexandre Prévot If you read the excellent FRPO report Justice Denied you would have seen on page 6 that about 5% of the tenants in Ontario will at some point get to the Landlord & Tenant Board and that about 2/3rds of those tenants will pay their rent arrears before getting evicted by [...]
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How To Play The Credit Game And Win
January 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Property Management
photo credit: 401K A tenant emailed me a while back asking why landlords rely so much on credit scores and how it just wasn’t fair, because he was basically a cash only guy but he paid his bills in full and on time.He didn’t have bad credit he had no credit. So he was better [...]
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