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?
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 Halloween around the corner, the world invites spooks, scares, and all the ghost stories a person could want. It’s the time for Horror Fests and Haunted Houses, maybe even some roasted marshmallows if that’s what floats your boat. Maybe that’s not your scene, because you have a real ‘haunted’ house. Whether your property is
There have officially been two gender reveal parties that have ended up with massive fires, and that is no good sign. With that, COVID-19, quarantine, murder hornets, and all the other resulting problems 2020 has given us, many things have fallen to the wayside. That begs the question: are you prepared for the Great American
Halloween is often considered the United States primary inversion holiday. This is the day where the good dress as bad and celebrate the things we normally avoid: spooks, scares, and Tiger Kings. This is the season to think about all the bad things out there with a campfire and a flashlight under our chins. We
Times may be hard, and one thing you always want is to be able to depend on your good residents to stick around. The ole reliable, the dependable, they’ve been here for a while and weren’t ever late, didn’t break things, those are the residents you want to keep. But you can’t – not forever.
For the time being, masks do not seem like they are going anywhere. While COVID-19 isn’t precisely airborne, that doesn’t stop the virus from spreading each time that our lungs exhale. The moisture droplets from our mouths and chest cavity help the germs spread across surfaces and from there, to other people who can be
