Tampa Property Management Blog

How to Rehab Distressed Investment Properties without High Interest Loans

The HUD (Housing and Urban Development) Secretary, Ben Carson, recently announced the FHA plans to expand the 203(k) Rehab Mortgage Insurance Program. The program will allow Real Estate Investors to purchase and rehab homes within specific opportunity zones, with insured loans th...

4 Tips for Coordinating Maintenance Schedules

Scheduling and coordinating convenient vendor appointment times with anyone is a challenge in any industry. But as a rental property owner, you recognize the unique burden of managing schedules and trying to synch up the calendars of your tenants and vendor contractors. Toda...

3 Tips for a Smooth and Successful Eviction Process

Sometimes, even if you do everything right from credit checks to calling references, you find yourself in a position where eviction is the only option. The tenant eviction process is probably the most challenging aspect of rental property ownership, in part because of our inheren...

5 Benefits of Performing Regular Property Inspections

As a rental property owner and investor, one of the situations you hope to avoid is having a distressed property. Bringing a distressed property back to life and into a rentable condition can be costly. Property owners recognize that routine maintenance can help prevent those hug...

5 Tips to Avoid Placing Bad Tenants

Don’t be one of the many property owners with a bad tenant problem. This is one issue that probably could have been prevented. For many owners, they don’t have the tools or resources to screen tenants effectively. This results in placing a bad tenant that’s detrimental to t...

Top 3 advantages to having a dedicated Property Manager

As a property owner, have you ever hired a service provider that made you feel like a pinball? Or one that left you feeling like you were being passed around with no one addressing your needs or effectively assisting you? This experience would leave anyone feeling frustrated. Not...

5 Amazing Tips to Improve Poor Reporting / Communication With Property Owners

Reporting and communication are critical parts of any business. The top complaint from property owners is the lack of communication, and a close second is a lack of reporting. You’ll find several articles that discuss the importance of both and the consequences of failing to do...

3 Challenges with Having Large Distances to Your Properties

As a property manager, I believe it is important to be mindful of your distance to the properties you manage. The further you are from a property, the more cumbersome it becomes for you to manage it. Whether you are a property manager or a rental property owner, the concept is s...

3 Steps For Managing Security Deposit Refunds

Having tenants in our rental properties can be great things when we go through the proper suggested tips to find the perfect fit, but just like in anything, there can be ups and downs. Sometimes we find ourselves in situations that are not ideal and we have to start asking big...

5 Benefits of Performing Regular Inspections

Not performing regular inspections on a rental property puts the property in jeopardy of becoming distressed. A distressed property is more costly to maintain and more difficult to rent. In this article, I am going to discuss 5 benefits of performing regular inspections. Lower...