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Dealing With Professional Tenants

Professional Tenants Understand the System If you aren’t familiar with the term, you would think a professional tenant is just someone with no intent on ever owning and intending on staying a tenant forever. Talk to a landlord who has … Continue reading

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Landlord Challenges

What Are Your Landlord Challenges? $100 oil seems to be rather good for the economy. The economic activity created by this surge in prices is rippling through the province and is only in the early stages of generating increased job … Continue reading

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Why Don’t Tenants Read The Ads?

This post is just a short little pet peeve of mine. Part of being a landlord is learning to write ads that do a portion of your work for you. If you don’t put little qualifiers in place such as … Continue reading

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Why Don’t They Screen Tenants?

It’s amazing how many problem tenants could be avoided if landlords just properly screened tenants before handing over the keys. Here are some screening tips to help make it easier. Continue reading

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What’s Your Source of Real Estate Info?

If you follow the Real Estate markets or own rental property it is incredibly easy to get depressed about the current market situation. As you scan the Real Estate headlines and find out sales have dropped 41% from the last … Continue reading

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Am I Biased? Would You Rent to Them?

It seems like wingnuts are flying off the shelf these days and I am receiving even more content for a potential book about tenant stories. Here is the email I received the other day in response to one of my … Continue reading

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More Tenant Screening Advice

I follow a fellow by the name of Bill Gray who is known as “The Landlord Doctor”. He is a seasoned debt collector and has some great advice about screening tenants in the following article. I’ve mentioned some of this … Continue reading

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Collecting From Evicted Tenants

Although some people have had success with collecting money from evicted tenants, unless the outstanding amount owed is over a couple thousand dollars you may be better off letting it go.

The time and energy you waste trying to collect could probably better serve you by spending extra time finding and screening for exceptional tenants to replace the less than stellar former inhabitants. For those of you looking to collect, though here is some information to help you with the process of either garnishing a former tenant’s wages, or potentially seizing tenant’s assets to pay outstanding deb. Continue reading

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Another Tenant (Or Near Tenant) Story

This particular post could have also been titled “Google Knows All”, but it does revolve around tenants, so I thought I would share. Hopefully there are a couple lessons and some laughter for everyone in this. Around mid December I … Continue reading

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What Were They Thinking?

The capacity for people to continually astound me never seems to end. Here is an email I received today from someone looking for a room. Hello! The following is a reply to your “Rentals For Women, Short Term Shared Accommodation” … Continue reading

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Bonus Landlord Tips – For After You Filled That Vacancy

I told you I had made some upgrades, so here is a new option, if you want to listen to this bonus tip, it’s available just above, so click on the arrow above (or triangle whatever you think it is) … Continue reading

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Landlord Tip – Filling Vacancies 4 of 5 in a Series of Landlord Tips

This landlord tip seems like common sense, but it is amazing how many times landlords show up just moments before the tenants do, or worse yet after they do. You never know what could be awaiting you and if you … Continue reading

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Landlord Tips – Filling Vacancies 2 of 5 in a Series of Tips

Wondering how to fill vacancies faster? One secret is to book crowds! To find out what this means read the latest Landlord Tip we have for you. Continue reading

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Landlord Tips – Filling Vacancies 1 of 5 in a Series of Tips

I seemed to get a pretty good response with the last series of landlord tips I put together from our own experience and from information we acquired since joining REIN. To extend the series I have put together some specific … Continue reading

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