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I have seen a trend emerging as I assist new customers with our Property Management Software and I can't help but wonder how this is shaping the rental industry as I use to know it.  Daily, I receive calls from new customers telling me that they are opening a new style of property management comp...
04/20/2012
Have you ever hired someone to work on your property and been horribly disappointed?  Possibly have to hire a second person to clean up the mess the first one made?  Having been a property manager, landlord, general contractor and now consulting for online property management software,  I can tel...
03/21/2012
Lately, I've been coming across a common theme when reading and it has to do with the collective mind, the power of the media and the concept of the humanization of technology. From social to political to environmental, our perspectives are no longer controlled entirely by those that hold the pur...
03/08/2012
If you have ever had the joy of a "For Cause" eviction, you know how important it can be to keep detailed notes of the reasons you are evicting.   Yes, you may have followed stringent tenant screening guidelines, tried your best to find the most qualified tenant and still end up with a bad apple ...
03/01/2012
From time-to-time, around our property, I see a carpent ant trail. I have done my research and know that if I follow the trail, eventually I will find a nest. I know there can be several satelite nests that form away from the "mother-load." The trail I see always appears in a similar location and...
02/23/2012
We are always comparing, always making judgements. It's a fact of life.  We can't help ourselves.  It's how we learn and make decisions.  We do it in relationships, education, business, and it's no different in the world of real estate and property management.  To leave all the decision making up...
02/17/2012
If you're like me and dreaming of birds chirping, flowers blooming and the sun shining, you'll understand where I'm coming from (and those of you below 40 degrees longitude... I covet your glorious and continual access to warmth!)  For an Oregonian, Wisconsonite or Idahoan, we live for the moment...
02/08/2012
Back when I was a kid... we had to use an envelope and a stamp to get documents to an owner or future tenant.   Well, maybe we had fax machines, but those were annoying.  And then email came along and that was at least better.  But there were those folks who would swear "I never got your email......
02/01/2012
To blog or not to blog... it's been the question on my mind this month yet I've failed miserably with follow-through as this is my first blog ALL JANUARY!  Usually my creative juices flow, I can get in blog-groove pretty easily and inspiration flows like honey, yet January has proven to be more o...
01/31/2012
It's hard to imagine that 2011 is almost over and a whole new year is lurking around the corner... full of expectation. Oh what will I do in 2012 to enrich my personal life and my career in property management software???If you're like me, you enjoy the cornerstone of a new beginning - the jumpin...
12/22/2011
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