All Entries Tagged With: "property management"
Do Your Property Tenants Receive ‘Customer Service’
Interesting concept isn’t it? But I wonder how many property investors actually view their tenants as customers.
Often in the blogs there is reference to running property investing as a ‘business’ and taking the view of looking after tenants receive ‘customer service’ is taking that view one step further.
When was the last time you unexpectedly received [...]
Do You Manage Your Own Investment Properties?
Property investors often manage their own investment properties, especially retired or semi-retired investors. The tougher financial conditions that we have all experienced has seen some investors take on their own management in an endeavour to save costs, or make some extra money, whichever way you look at it. (Is the glass half full or half [...]
Refinancing your loans is more popular than you may think
A report the other day stated that on average home owners refinanced their loans every 3 years. I don’t know about you, but I was a bit surprised as that. I would have thought more like 5-7 years.
If home owners are doing that then what are property investors doing with their loans? There have definitely [...]
How to take some control over your property maintenance
Landlords can take the worry out of looking after their investment property.
Tenants have a right to ‘quiet enjoyment’ of the rental property so a landlord cannot keep driving by every week to see if the place is being kept in a reasonable condition. So what can you do to have some control over the upkeep [...]
Looking After Tenants At Christmas Time
Christmas time is a time of goodwill and at what better time could a landlord show a tenant that they appreciate the fact that they are looking after their properties.
There are horror stories that circulate about tenants and the way they look after properties and there have been TV specials showing the amount of damage [...]
Presenting Your Property For Maximum Returns
Are your tenants moving out? Or if they have been in there for some years, maybe it is time for doing some maintenance but make sure you advise them that there will be a rental increase. Your timing in relation to this with existing tenants should be when a new term is being negotiated.
Here are [...]
From 1 July 2009 Tenants Can Choose A Rent Payment System
In more recent years many real estate agents and landlords have been requesting automatic transfers for rental payments. From a real estate agents point of view this meant that there was very little cash in the office and also it required less staff time involved in taking and processing rental payments.
But from 1 July 2009 [...]
Property Management Changes To Be Aware Of
Add these costs to the cost of the physical rebuild and you have well above what most people will estimate as the replacement cost of the property.
So let’s analyse this for a house that you have owned for 5 years and bought new:
Property Purchase price $ 350,000
Section 71 of the new Residential Tenancies and Rooming [...]
Timbercrete Fire Bunkers Have The Highest Possible Fire Rating
“In response to the devastating bushfires in Victoria, as well as possible future fires in other areas, Timbercrete has now launched a fire bunker or safety house constructed from arguably Australia’s most fire resistant building product; Timbercrete.”
The fire resistant bunker is produced in kit form and there are licensed dealers to contact.
This Australian invented and [...]
