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.

5 Online Tools for Managing Your Rental Properties Remotely

5 Online Tools for Managing Your Rental Properties Remotely

If you plan to live far from your rental property, either permanently or for a short time, you need to have a plan for online tools for managing your rental properties remotely. With the current...
Many Apartment Tenants Staying In Place – For Now

Many Apartment Tenants Staying In Place – For Now

Apartment tenants are not moving out this time of year as normal patterns would dictate due to the impact of COVID-19, according to an article from RealPage. “We are seeing a huge spike in rescinded...
New Rental Insurance Technology Tool for Property Managers

New Rental Insurance Technology Tool for Property Managers

Liberty Mutual has built a new set of innovative technical capabilities that allows the integration of the quoting and binding of rental insurance into property manager’s ecosystems. During a recent interview, Kelly Piotrowski, Director, Ecosystem...
April Rent Collection Better Than Expected; May is a Concern

April Rent Collection Better Than Expected; May is a Concern

April rent collection was better than expected, but May rent collection is still a concern, according to research presented in a recent National Apartment Association webinar. Mindy Price of J. Turner Research presented during the...
Top 4 Rental Property Upgrades That Pay Off

Top 4 Rental Property Upgrades That Pay Off

You will likely be faced with the need to do a rental property upgrades in the future, so this week's maintenance tip from Keepe is a look at four upgrades that will help whether...
6 Actions Landlords Can Take to Support Residents Now

6 Actions Landlords Can Take to Support Residents Now

On behalf of the 40 million Americans who call an apartment home and the 17.5 million jobs the industry supports, the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) is suggesting six actions landlords can take to...
bed bug removal ask landlord hank

Dear Landlord Hank: Who Pays for Bed Bug Removal?

In this week’s Ask Landlord Hank question he deals, again, with the bed bug removal question in rental property and who should pay the cost. Dear Landlord Hank: In the city of Aurora, Colorado, is it...
84% of Apartment Households Paid Full or Partial Rent in April

84% of Apartment Households Paid Full or Partial Rent in April

A rent survey finds that 84 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by April 12, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) in its second survey of 11.5 million units of professionally managed apartment...
How Can You Get Tenants to Clean Regularly?

How Can You Get Tenants to Clean Regularly?

How can you get tenants to clean regularly is a challenge for many property managers, so this week maintenance company Keepe provides some ideas on how to get tenants to clean regularly in order...
Ask Landlord Hank: How Should We Handle An Already Slow-Paying Tenant Now?

Ask Landlord Hank: How Should We Handle An Already Slow-Paying Tenant Now?

In this week’s Ask Landlord Hank question he deals with how to handle an already slow-paying tenant in the COVID-19 environment. Dear Landlord Hank, We have a tenant who never pays her rent on time and who...