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The entire nation is feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of mass unemployment. Unfortunately, that unemployment has led to billions of dollars in unpaid rent for the last year. The loss of income has hit property investors pretty hard. If you don’t have alternative sources of income, you’ve probably been struggling

Demand for housing The demand for housing in city of Austin was off the charts in 2020, and the market is gaining momentum again in 2021. While some people are selling their properties to cash in on the opportunity, the demand far outweighs the supply of available homes. There are several reasons for the continuing

Landlords have an overwhelming number of responsibilities for taking care of their properties. The last thing any landlord wants to deal with is a hoarder. Unfortunately, hoarders aren’t just fiction created for daytime television shows – they’re real, and they’re everywhere. If your tenant is a hoarder, you need to act fast before they permanently

Screening tenants is one of the most important tasks landlords are responsible for. Applications come in by the dozens for every apartment and it’s their job to sort through them, run the appropriate checks, hold interviews, and determine who will live in your properties. As a result of this constant work, most landlords have a

Over the course of the pandemic, many tenants living in multi-family properties found themselves feeling frustrated. After years of watching landlords participate in an “amenities arms race” in an attempt to attract tenants, they found that they no longer had access to these amenities – but they were still paying for those benefits. Lack of

  Even in a hot real estate market, where properties sell faster than ice cream on a hot summer day in Galveston Beach, you have to enter the process with solid planning and intentionality. Otherwise, you’ll short-change yourself and leave money on the table. Although most Houston homeowners focus on what happens between listing and