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Website Reveals Ugly Truth of Problem Tenants
Every experienced landlord has a horror story or two about terrible tenants. But a website based in Florida has visual proof: pictures of tenants and the destruction they leave behind
Read More »How to Verify a Renter’s Source of Income
Who cares where a renter’s money comes from? All that matters is that you get paid, right? This is a common mentality that property managers and landlords take when they’re searching for new residents. However,
Read More »How to Run a Credit Check on a Potential Tenant – For Landlords
As a landlord, your primary responsibility is to find stellar tenants to occupy the property – tenants who pay the rent and take care of their rented home as if it were their own.
Read More »Should landlords be penalized for tenants’ crimes?
Cedar Rapids officials are making a new push to identify nuisance rental properties — including those at or near where crimes take place — and to put in place a mechanism that can assess
Read More »Every Landlord needs to be Knowledgeable of Eviction Processes
Are there reasons why a landlord should evict a tenant from the property? Very often, a landlord makes an error and unfortunately leases a property to a criminal who will not only vandalize the
Read More »Handing the keys to the right tenant
For experienced landlords this is a common problem, for new ones however, a non-paying or disorderly tenant can seem pretty daunting. A tenant appears good on the face of it, moves in, then suddenly
Read More »Dubai tenants to foot thousands of dirhams in chiller charges
Dubai’s Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera) has started asking interim owners associations (IOAs) to install separate chiller meters at the time their annual budgets come for approval.
Read More »Landlord fumes over tenant damages
When landlord Jean-Guy Lecours stepped foot into his London Road rental last month, he couldn't believe his eyes. Cigarettes has been meticulously stuffed into closed heating vents. His beige carpet was the colour of soot.
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