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Effective home property management requires managers/owners to react promptly to tenant complaints when troubles are reported. They really need to react like it were their unique home. Failing to manage problems is high on the report on reasons tenants start searching for new places to reside in. And today it’s actually a renters market, because there are many empty rental units in the marketplace.

I speak from personal experience on this as I was renting a home when several problems developed. The owner/landlord didn’t respond to problems he considered “nice to have” features although not requirements. A couple examples:

– When I moved in I quickly learned the sprinkler system had several leaks and lots of sprinkler heads were busted off of the pipes. I complained and the owner said however look after it. This took for a number of months. I finally got tired of dragging the hose around to water and paying a greater water bill (sprinkler system was on reclaimed water), so I informed him that I stopped watering. He still didn’t repair it, and also the yard began to die. Not wanting my dogs to monitor in mud, I reluctantly learned the best way to fix the device. The landlord didn’t even offer to purchase the various components!

– Another example is the place the lake softener salt tank cracked and leaked. Again he didn’t respond for months. I got tired of waiting and patched the tank with many plastic and epoxy. It was clear my landlord didn’t care provided that he didn’t think your house what food was in urgent need of repair.

Home property management is approximately caring for the tenants needs and, when the manager isn’t the owner, ensuring they’re meeting the owners’ expectations. In my second example the salt water leaked on the garage floor and rusted the recent water heater, which rusted through and failed 3-4 months later. About few months and then the bottom of the garage door became so rusty it begun to break apart. I’m sure between the two problems my landlord spent at the very least $600, when he might have fixed it using a bit of plastic and epoxy. review may have prevented the extensive damage. It’s important to the non-owning home property manager never to let problems turn into bigger problems. A well maintained house will earn the owner or home property manager’s client more revenue.

The old saying holds true “a stitch with time saves nine.” That same stitch will keep a contented tenant inside a rental unit for a long time. And long-term tenants medicine goal of each and every home property management professional, owner or not.