Tag: tenant

How to Use Online Rent Collection to Enhance Transparency and Foster Better Relationships With Tenants

By Dave Spooner Landlords experience a variety of benefits when switching to online rent collection: automation, convenience, accurate bookkeeping and the ability to meet tenant needs in the marketplace. Transparency is an often overlooked benefit. As consumers, we want and appreciate transparency throughout the transaction process. We want to be able to track our packages,…


Landlords, Don’t Believe These 5 Myths About Online Rent Collection

By Dave Spooner When customers are online, so are businesses. It’s no less true in the rental industry—with customers increasingly embracing online bill pay, online rent collection is only a logical next step for landlords. But online rent collection is often met with hesitancy. Some believe that online payments are less secure or reliable. Others…


How to Decide on and Enforce Your Rental Policies as a Landlord

By Dave Spooner  Whenever you set up a new rental unit, you have a variety of decisions to make. From choosing a reasonable rent rate to screening new tenants to reside in the unit, you have your hands full. Deciding on your rental policies is one important step in setting up your rental. If you…


Is Being a Landlord Worth It?

Real estate has been a popular investment for a very long time—for those who can afford it. But in recent years, trends such as house flipping, “house hacking” (living in one room of a property while renting out the others) and short-term vacation rentals have made real estate investment much more accessible, especially for millennials…


Tol’able David (1921)

Young David Kinemon, son of West Virginia tenant farmers, longs to be treated like a man by his family and neighbors, especially Esther Hatburn, the pretty girl who lives with her grandfather on a nearby farm. However, he is continually reminded that he is still a boy, “tol’able” enough, but no man. He eventually gets…


London Tenant Who Stabbed Landlords to Death During Lockdown Guilty of Double Murder

A tenant who stabbed his landlords to death after becoming paranoid about Covid during the first national lockdown has been found guilty of double murder. Daniel Briceno Garcia, 46, attacked Sonia Butron Calvi, 66, and Edgar Aguilera Daza, 60, at the home they shared with five others in Stockwell, south London, on April 1, 2020….


Around 750,000 Households Face Eviction in 2021 Following Moratorium Ban: Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs economists predict that some 750,000 renter households are likely to lose their homes this year following the Supreme Court’s decision to block the federal eviction moratorium and the slow pace of emergency rental aid delivery. Basing their prediction on rent delinquency data from real estate companies, federal agencies, and the National Multifamily Housing…