According to Maslow’s hierarchy, finding shelter is one of those needs that people will do anything to meet. Everyone needs a place to lay their head and that vacant property looks pretty appetizing. Despite ‘everyone needing a place,’ not everyone meets the basic criteria needed to protect your property. The less ideal of an applicant,
If you find a vacancy on your hands, you probably have your eyes on the crème de la crème. The best of the best, the cream of the crop: only the best residents should be filling your vacancies, right? Now, it’s up to you to decide. How do you define an applicant with the potential
If you do background screening on your rental or employment applicants in California, you’re going to need to adopt this policy. Since 2012, the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA) allows applicants to request and receive a free copy of their consumer report. Do you know this screening requirement that is unique to California?
When looking through piles of resumes, searching for the perfect person to fit your team, you have an image in your mind. They are experienced: specifically, someone who has worked in the rental housing industry before. They have a driver’s license, so they can get to all the properties with relative ease. They’re energetic, with
Online purchases and increased package deliveries are typical of the holiday season, but this is no ordinary year. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has seen mail volume increase steadily annually, and volume has drastically increased due to COVID-19. With more residents choosing to do their Black Friday and other holiday shopping online, in the
Fall has officially arrived! Some of us have already begun the process of changing over our seasonal wardrobes, switching out our tank tops and tees for cozy sweaters and fuzzy scarves. Others have purchased their obligatory pumpkins, spice-infused broomsticks and fall-leaf wreaths. Even if the only evidence of autumn in your neighborhood is the date
It seems like rental housing laws pop up in the blink of an eye. Since the sweat-inducing rental housing laws proposed in August, we’ve got plenty of updates. There are more answers to the industry’s most pressing questions surrounding the CDC’s eviction moratorium, and there are new state-specific changes regarding unlawful detainer forms, eviction appeals,
One of the few things that are guaranteed in this world is people age every second of every day; we’re all getting older! There are health issues, memory issues, but maturity doesn’t change. The need for the independence that you had when you were younger doesn’t change. The desire to be in the home that
There are many reasons that rental properties set up guest policies. There are fire hazards, occupancy limits, and not to mention the dreaded subleasing schemes. A policy is just one more way to ensure everything is on the up and up, to know who is staying, if they are safe and if your residents are
With the holidays coming up and more people shopping online than ever, identity theft is a greater risk than ever. While it’s up to your residents to protect their digital information, it’s up to you to secure the personally identifiable information (or PII) that your management team has records of. From information on the application,