Posts by Laurence
12 Renter-Friendly Upgrades to Make Your Apartment a Home
One of the challenges of renting a home or apartment is making it feel like “home.” After all, you’re only living there for the short term, so it’s impossible to make wholesale changes to the space. However, there are some changes you can make without driving your landlord insane. Whether you’re renting a house in…
Read MoreWhat is an owner statement for a rental property?
Learn about the basics of an owner statement and why it’s important for real estate investors.
Read MorePrep Your Rentals For Winter
Winter is coming upon us and it is important to prep your rentals for winter. If you own rental properties in areas where temperatures can reach sub-zero temperatures, you ought to make sure each unit is ready to take on the winter month and keep tenants comfortable. In this article, we discuss 5 property maintenance…
Read More3 Common Mistakes Made By Landlords When Screening Tenants
Screening tenants is a very important step when you are looking to rent your property. It should be handled diligently by landlords because a bad tenant can not only damage your property but negatively impact your cash flow. In addition, having to deal with evictions and legal services is frustrating, time-consuming and costly. Most evictions…
Read More3 Questions You Should Ask When Hiring a Property Manager
When you own multiple investment properties, hiring a property manager with extensive expertise and knowledge of managing rentals can add value to your portfolio. In this post, we’ll cover three questions you should ask when contacting a property management company. Question 1 – How many investment properties do you own yourself? Hiring a property manager…
Read More5 Signs You Need Help With Your Rental Property
When investing in rental properties, multiple tasks need to be done regularly to become a successful real estate investor. From finding a tenant to keeping up with the general maintenance of the property, a landlord has to manage a long list of responsibilities to become successful in the long-term. Being a real estate investor and…
Read More3 Pitfalls of Investing in Real Estate
When it comes to investing in real estate, there are 3 pitfalls that can impact your cash flow and ROI. We wanted to discuss these 3 points with you today : 1. Overpaying for a property Purchasing an investment property, especially if you are a first-time property investor can be a challenge if you do…
Read More6 Keys to Optimizing Investment Properties
Being a real estate investor may be one thing but being a landlord can use another set of skills that not everyone masters. You may be able to find great investment opportunities however, managing tenants, maintenance repairs, accounting reports are also challenging tasks which can eat into your profits. In this article, I wanted to highlight…
Read MoreAnnouncing New Director of Operations
Justin Mann, Managing Partner of Blackstone Group Leasing & Management is pleased to announce that Steve Stasiuk is joining the company as the new Director of Operations. Steve successfully completed 8 years as the Program Director at the Naval War College Foundation where he managed fundraising and outreach events along with leading messaging and communication…
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