Management & Maintenance

This department of Rental Housing Journal is your source for property management and maintenance information. Whether you’re an independent landlord, portfolio manager, on-site community manager, leasing agent or apartment maintenance professional, the site is dedicated to bringing tips, best practices and information to help make your job easier and keep you up to date and educated.

How Some Innovative Services Can Get Property Managers In Trouble in Oregon

How Some Innovative Services Can Get Property Managers In Trouble in Oregon

Property managers can get in trouble in Oregon with some innovative services due to the archaic Oregon Landlord/Tenant Act attorney Brad Kraus points out this month. Bradley S. Kraus Attorney at Law, Warren Allen, LLP With the COVID-19...
Lawmakers Extend Oregon Eviction Moratorium Through End of September

Lawmakers Extend Oregon Eviction Moratorium Through End of September

Lawmakers have voted to extend the Oregon eviction moratorium for both residential and commercial properties through the end of September and give renters until March 31, 2021 to pay back rent. The legislature passed HB...
Potential Tenants Like Self-Guided Rental Housing Tours Without The Agent

Potential Tenants Like Self-Guided Rental Housing Tours Without The Agent

Self-guided rental housing tours in person, without the agent, are growing in popularity – not virtual tours which are everywhere – but actual in-person tours of the property just without the agent tagging along,...
Kitchen Range Hood Options for Your Rentals

Kitchen Range Hood Options for Your Rentals

Having the right kind of kitchen range hood in your rentals can help make cleaning easier for you and your tenants, keep the air a little fresher, and reduce complaints of cooking smells. This...
Need to Sell A Rental Property, But Have Long-Term Tenant in Place

Need to Sell A Rental Property, But Have Long-Term Tenant in Place

When to sell a rental property is a question faced by many real estate investors so in this week’s Ask Landlord Hank  he offers some suggestions. Dear Landlord Hank, We have a 13-year tenant, on month-to-month, with...
Renter needs are more about good customer service than fancy granite countertops

Properties, Property Managers Must Adapt to Renter Needs, Changes

Renters are changing, and the properties and property managers of the future are going to have to be increasingly flexible to adapt to evolving renter needs, says Buildium in its 2020 Renters’ Report. Property managers...
Tenant screening services for landlords are not all the same writes David Pickron

Successful Landlords Know All Tenant Screening Companies Are Not The Same

Tenant screening services for landlords are not all the same writes veteran investigator and rental property owner David Pickron who offers several cautions to landlords. By David Pickron Rent Perfect When you’re shopping for a shirt, it’s...
Rents Declined The Most In Portland Year-Over-Year

National Rents Continue Downward In May

National rents continued their downward trend in May, reaching their lowest year-over-year level since February 2011, according to the latest report from Yardi Matrix. During what would typically be prime leasing season, rents decreased by...
How The Strain From The Pandemic Has Impacted Our Property Management Business

How The Strain From The Pandemic Has Impacted Our Property Management Business

By Ron Garcia Garcia Group Property Management I want to give you an update on the status of Covid-19 housing policies. However, I want to be candid and tell you that I wish I had more...
3 Ways A Property Manager Can Stand Out from the Competition

3 Ways A Property Manager Can Stand Out from the Competition

Property management is one of the most demanding careers in the real-estate industry so how does a property manager stand out from the competition? That is this week's tip from Keepe the maintenance company. Meeting...