


Are You Working with a Rental Real Estate Agent?
Many real estate agents will gladly represent a renter searching for his or her next place to lease – Are you working with a rental real estate agent who’s familiar with rentals in your target area. That’s how we found our first rental house. The agent showed us the...
Think About Hiring a Property Manager
Your friends will notice it first. You look tired or stressed. You are never free to get together, or phone calls suddenly call you away from activities you looked forward to for weeks. Your family complains about your long hours, and you can’t remember the last time...
Where Can I Advertise My Available Units for Free?
Where can I advertise my available units for free? In a recent blog post, we said, What Does a Property Manager Do? The number one job of a property manager is Tenant Screening. “The cost of choosing the wrong tenant is steep — in terms of time, money, and, in some...
Rent or Paying for Life’s Necessities
It caught my eye recently that many people must choose every month between making the rent or paying for life’s necessities in Philadelphia. Those families aren’t homeless — not yet, anyway. The official name for their situation is “cost-burdened.” Nationally, the...
Steps to Take to Prevent a House Fire
Steps to take to prevent a house fire. A woman died when her Wilmington, Delaware row home went up in flames Wednesday morning, November 26th.